Alice Faye In the 30's

EY's Day Off.gdh1/2/1928 LAX Louella O. Parsons Clara Bow, the college boy's favorite flapper, is about to cease her flapperish ways and emerge as a demon of the underworld. Can you see the frizzle-haired Bow youngster playing a lady crook? Well, lots of times we need to put on glasses to properly visualize certain drastic changes and when Clara appears in Ladies of the Mob, we shall need an extra pair of spectacles. Now with your kind attention, I shall endeavor to tell you something about Ladies of the Mob. It deals with the feminine angle of crookology. In other words, the woman crooks of the underworld are featured, with the man playing second fiddle. William Wellman, who directed Wings, will manage the megaphone and the story is by Ernest William Booth. At the beginning of this new year, Paramount makes no bones of saying that Clara is one of their greatest drawing cards. She is what the public wants–that's why there is a strong effort being made to get her the right stories. .... Every now and then we see a familiar face at the studios–some headliner of yesterday. Virginia Pearson, than whom there was no greater vamp on the silver sheet a few years ago, is now at MGM, called hither by Irving Thalberg to play an important role in Norma Shearer's next picture, The Actress, or, if you prefer, Trelawny of the Wells, the real name. Only a few weeks ago I saw Edwin August, who used to play opposite Mary Pickford and was one of the most famous leading men in the movies. Most of these players can come back if they please. The memory of the public is long and stars who have achieved any sort of distinction are popular. .... Vera Reynolds isn't going to walk back. She didn't even take the buggy ride. Probably the fault is her own since Walking Back has developed into a man's play, and Miss Reynolds didn't want to be starred and then let someone else have all the honors. She will be starred in something else and another actress substituted for her. There were rumors that Sonia Karloff, the girl who fooled all Hollywood by pretending to be a Danish actress when she was really an American-born Jean Williams, was to be put in Miss Reynolds' place. This is vociferously denied at the DeMille Studios. So we will have to say it is gossip, and if they are right, print the name of the real girl. The Hungarian writers are doing well for themselves in Hollywood. I might say there is a vogue for their type of screen play. Take Lajos Biro who wrote The Way of All Flesh and The Yellow Lily, Billie Dove's next picture for First National. He is in great demand at all the studios but First National, thinking to keep him right in the family, has signed him on a long term contract. Hereafter he will write exclusively for this company. .... The studios are deserted today. New Year's is being celebrated by everyone from property boy to president of the company. Reginald Denny and Richard Dix are spending the holidays at Denny's mountain cabin in the San Bernadino Mountains where there is four feet of snow. Denny is apparently enjoying the skiing for he didn't show up last Tuesday, he was supposed to start work on Be Yourself. Now, he says he'll be on hand next Tuesday. Fortunate thing for Carl Laemmle all his stars do not delay their productions. What would happen at Universal City? .... I believe I told you a few weeks ago that Lew Cody's troubles with MGM were about to be ironed out. I promised to let you know if I deserved a good word for being a prophet or whether as a guesser I'm a pretty good pastry cook. In this case, I can say I was right. Lew Cody has signed a long-term contract with MGM through the courtesy of this company. He will finish a two weeks' vaudeville engagement–one in San Francisco and one here, after which he will begin work on a new picture. I wish I could tell you the name of the story, but neither Mr. Cody, who left for San Francisco last night, or Irving Thalberg were sure of its title yet. .... Not only do "Gentlemen Prefer Blondes," but the preference of the Leland Stanford boys run that way also. They voted Laura LaPlante their choice for hostess during the coming game at the Rose Bowl. Miss LaPlante went right out and bought herself a new dress and hat and went t o the train to meet the boys. Although they had never seen her in person before, most of them felt they had made a good choice. .... The holidays didn't interfere with Harry Cohn's signing proclivity. While everyone else was discussing the Yuletide season, the energetic Mr. Cohn went out and signed Anthony Coldwey as special writer. He was associated with Warners and responsible for most of the Warner operas.Alice Faye In the 30'sABBREVIATIONSEE – Los Angeles Evening ExpressEH -- Los Angeles Evening HeraldEHE -- Los Angeles Evening Herald ExpressFD -- Film DailyIDN -- Los Angeles Illustrated NewsHCN -- Hollywood Citizen NewsHDC -- Hollywood Daily CitizenLAR -- Los Angeles RecordLAPR -- Los Angeles Post-RecordLAX -- Los Angeles ExaminerMPH -- Motion Picture HeraldSFC – San Francisco Chronicle8/21/1933 EHE RUDY VALLEE IN AUTO CRASH AP, Bridgeville, Del, 8/21 Rudy Vallee, singer and orchestra leader, escaped injury and Miss Alice Faye, a dancer with his orchestra, suffered a cut over the right eye and body bruises early today after their automobile skidded during a heavy rainstorm and upset near Greenwood. Miss Faye was taken to the office of a physician at Bridgeville by Vallee and other members of the orchestra. After she was treated the party continued on its way from Atlantic City to Virginia Beach, VA, Miss Faye and Valley riding with other musicians in their cars.11/29/1933 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman Alice Faye has been signed by Fox for a featured role in the George White Scandals. Now Miss Faye is the current heart throb of Rudy Vallee, radio crooner who will be a star of the picture. In fact Rudy's interest in Miss Faye is so intense that he has talked about going to Mexico to obtain a quick divorce from his estranged wife, Fay Webb of Santa Monica. It looks as if Rudy is simply fated to love girls who have Faye or Fay in their name somewhere. Fay Webb has not liked the idea of the Mexican divorce, and even has talked about seeking an injunction to prevent Rudy from going to Mexico. However all that marital tangle works out, Rudy is going to have Alice Faye with him in the film version of the Scandals. She may or may not be his wife when they work on the picture. Their romance started when she became an entertainer with the Vallee band. Lilian Harvey will be one of the principal stars in the picture. Others assigned roles from the New York stage are Marie Ormiston, the Loomis Sisters, Cliff Edwards, and Dixie Dunbar. George White also will appear, and he is bringing his own chorines out from New York.12/7/1933 LAX Louella O. Parsons Were we right? Alice Faye, Rudy Vallee's sweetie, reaches here Saturday to go into the George White "Scandals." We said, didn't we, that Rudy, the crooner lad, would eat his Christmas dinner with sweet Alice, and it's come true. The report continues that Mr. Vallee will hop off to Mexico, get his divorce from Fay Webb (same old divorce that has been hanging fire for nearly a year) and marry his girl friend.12/9/1933 EHE VALLEE'S FRIEND HERE Big photo of Alice Faye Alice Faye, above, blues singer whose name has been linked with that of Rudy Vallee since the break between the crooner and his wife, Fay Webb Vallee, arrived in LA today to start work in a film. Vallee will arrive here Tuesday to play in the same picture at the Fox studios. Mrs. Vallee claims Vallee wants to divorce her so he can marry 'a radio singer.12/10/1933 LAX ALICE DENIES RUDY ROMANCE When interviewers in New York questioned Rudy Vallee, crooner and estranged husband of Fay Webb, about his reported new dream girl, Alice Faye, blonde dancer, he replied that she was "just a pal." And yesterday upon her arrival in Los Angeles, Miss Faye was equally emphatic in denying any romance between herself and the singer. Miss Faye will remain here until the completion of the film version of George White's Scandals in which she is to appear at Fox Studios.12/12/1933 LAX VALLEE HERE DENIES ALICE FAYE ROMANCE Rudy Vallee arrived in Los Angeles from the East yesterday, denying there was a new romance in his life and declaring he had no immediate intention of seeking a divorce from Fay Webb Vallee. Vallee, here to fill a film engagement with the Fox Studio, said he had the highest praise, "both personally and professionally," for Alice Faye, blues singer, with whom his name has been linked during the past several weeks. "But as for a romance with Miss Faye, I'll have to admit that such a thing is untrue," said Vallee, accompanied from the East by his Alaskan dog, "Windy." "I have the highest regard for Miss Faye and consider her a most charming and talented person. She is under personal contract to me, and I believe she is a marvelous theatrical find." NO DIVORCE NOW Vallee, who arrived on the Santa Fe Chief, declared he had no intention at the present time of seeking a divorce from Fay Webb Vallee, daughter of Santa Monica's chief of police, Clarence Webb. "I haven't seen Mrs. Vallee since we parted on April 3, last year," said Vallee. "I can't say whether I shall see her while I'm here." To queries of a possible reconciliation with his estranged wife, the crooner and orchestra leader was silent. Vallee will remain in Hollywood five weeks and then return to his radio broadcasting in New York.12/22/1933 LAX Louella O. Parsons While Lilian Harvey is pouting and continuing her grouch at the Fox Company, Alice Faye is being put in the spotlight and encouraged to believe she has a movie future. Miss Faye, whose hair is as blonde and as platinum as Jean Harlow's much publicized locks, has been given a four-year contract with Fox. Winfield Sheehan and Robert Kane, who saw tests of the young lady after she was rushed into the "George White Scandals" as a substitute for Lilian Harvey, aren't taking any chances. They signed her people. As for Rudy Vallee, he isn't saying much, but I am told he is as pleased as if someone had handed him a million over his girl friend's test.1/3/1934 LAX Ray De O'Fan Among others who partook of Colonel Arnheim's hospitality was....Alice Faye, who has given up radio work definitely, according to Rudy Vallee, for a career in pictures.1/4/1934 EHE Harrison Carroll Alice Faye is so heartbroken over the death of the chow pup Rudy Vallee gave her that she is moving away from her apartment. A motorist ran over the dog.1/4/1934 HCN Radio By Zuma Palmer The U.S.C. glee club and orchestra, Carmel Myers, Charles Irwin, Barbara "Snoony" Blair, Alice Faye and Leslie Howard will be Rudy Vallee's guests at 5 over KFI. Mr. Vallee should have no difficulty in finding personalities here for his weekly broadcasts, but the East does have more outstanding radio artists. One of the musical numbers scheduled for this evening is "The Man on the Flying Trapeze," popularized by Walter O'Keefe.1/9/1934 EHE RUDY VALLEE TO ANSWER WIFE'S CHARGES AND MAY ASK DIVORCE Rudy Vallee, the crooner who made the Maine Stein son famous, and whose dulcet radio voice is familiar to most of the women in the civilized world and even in darkest Africa, was reported today preparing an answer to the sensational separate maintenance suit filed yesterday by his wife, Fay Webb Vallee, actress, and daughter of the chief of police of Santa Monica. The complaint, which charged that Vallee openly associated with three other women, Alice Faye, film actress and two Jane Does, is now on file in superior court. In addition to an answer to Mrs. Vallee's charges, the crooner may file a cross-complaint for divorce---that is if the law permits--it was learned today. Though the California law says that one must be a resident of the state at least a year before seeking divorce, it also provides that the defendant in a divorce action can file a cross-complaint, whether or not he is a resident. "I'm amazed at her audacity," he said, standing in his dressing room at the Fox studios. "I'd be happy to answer every charge she has made. I hope I never have to do it--but if everything eventually has to be brought out, then we will let Mrs. Vallee's voice speak for herself. In regard to the settlement, I say she is getting 10,000 cents too much right now." Miss Faye, who is a featured singer of Rudy's orchestra, The Connecticut Yankees, also made verbal reply to the charges that she had associated with Vallee in other than a business capacity at the Roney Plaza Hotel at Miami Beach, Fl, during January and February, 1933. 'Mr. Vallee is my friend and employer since he engaged me as a part of his orchestra organization,' Miss Faye said. 'I have traveled with the orchestra in many different states and in many different places. The charges are ridiculous, as will be proved when the matter is brought into court. The complaint is a long one, 21 pages to be exact, each page bristling with such phrases as 'brazen effrontery' and 'deliberate conspiracy.' The filing of it climaxed a series of legal battles in the east, including an action filed by Mrs. Vallee to restrain the crooner from seeking a Mexican divorce. This action is pending. THREE WOMEN NAMED The most sensational charges in the complaint were that Vallee openly associated with three other women. These, the complaint charged, were Miss Faye, Jane Doe No. 1 and Jane Doe No. 2. Mrs. Vallee didn't reveal who the two Jane Does were, though the complaint intimated she knew all about them. A note written by Vallee in September, 1933, was listed in the complaint. "With brazen effrontery," it was charged, Vallee wrote to his wife: "Leonie, my first wife, was a fine woman and really loved me. I think I am going to have perfect happiness in my third marriage. They do say all good things run in threes." TRAP SET, SHE SAYS Mrs. Vallee charged that in the spring of 1933, when she returned to New York, Vallee, with "sinister motive," tried to divorce her so that he might marry Miss Faye. With this in view, she charged, he placed a device in her apartment by which all telephone conversations were recorded, but failed to obtain any evidence against her. After that, Mrs. Vallee charged, the crooner began a "deliberate campaign" to "lull her into a false sense of security of security" by plying her with liquor, giving her gifts and writing her affectionate notes, while all the time, she asserted, he continued going around with Miss Faye. And not only that, she charged, but Vallee tried to force her to agree to a "shockingly and grossly inadequate" property settlement. This she eventually signed, she said, "Through complete ignorance" of business. This settlement gave her but $100 a week and the deed to the home at 10100 Beverly Boulevard, valued at $60,000. Vallee, his wife, charged, concealed assets, placed money and securities in safe deposit boxes unknown to her, created insurance trusts with himself as beneficiary, and employed other "subterfuges" designed to make her believed that his income was much less than it was. She claimed that at this time Vallee's income was in excess of $350,000 a year and that he was worth $3,000,000. About this time, she charged, Vallee told her he was financially embarrassed, unable to pay his income tax. He even asked her to pawn her jewels to help him, she asserted. Vallee told his wife, she charged, that he planned to get a Mexican divorce and that she would know nothing about it until it was all over. This she laid to his "haste and impatience." Mrs. Vallee didn't paint such a pretty picture of the crooner, whose golden voice has been the cause of much undone housework in these United States. She charged that he possesses a "violent, vicious and ungovernable temper; indulges in blasphemy and uses intemperate, vile and vituperative language." This was especially applied to her, frequently in public gatherings much to her great humiliation, she charged. CHARGES INTIMIDATION Mrs. Vallee charged that she agreed to the property settlement when she was ill and when Vallee "threatened and frightened her into believing that unless she signed it she would be cut off without support or maintenance." She was intimated, she asserted, so that she could not exercise her own free will. Vallee's New York attorney, Hyman Bushel, aided the crooner in this move, she charged. Bushel told her that it "would do no good to consult an attorney," she asserted. In the complaint, Mrs. Vallee said that Rudy had encouraged her in the expensive mode of living during the first months of their marriage. The complaint was not without its modicum of praise. Rudy, she said "is one of the highest paid radio performers in the country, if not the world." She admitted that his manner of singing was unique. "His intonations, inflexions, voice intonations and unique skill and ability as a performer" have won him a fortune in radio, stage, café and nigh club performances, the complaint stated. This part had to do, however, with Mrs. Vallee's claims that her husband made more money than he would have her believe. The property settlement came in for its share of complaints. Mrs. Vallee charged that the document limits her earning capacity, restricts her mode of living by forbidding her to engage in stage, radio, vaudeville, musical comedy and other similar activity. It was obtained "through fraud, strategy, misrepresentation, duress and threats," she charged. ASKS COURT CONTROL In the complaint, Mrs. Vallee demanded that all of her husband's property and earnings be place under court order so that he cannot dispose of any of it. She demanded that the Fox Film Corp., by which Vallee is now employed, Fleischmann's Yeast Co. And the National Broadcasting Co. Be instructed to make no secret payment to Vallee. Mrs. Vallee said she...[Rest Cut Off]1/10/1934 EHE Harrison Carroll Poor Rudy Vallee! Fay Webb's sensational suit was filed on the day the crooner's fraternity was giving a dinner in his honor. The trial, scheduled for the 19th, also may conflict with the time he is supposed to return east for this restaurant and broadcasting engagements. Another echo of the suit was heard when the studio sought to take gallery pictures of the star and of Alice Faye. The two have many scenes together in the film, and, following the ordinary course of promotion, Fox wanted to take closeup still pictures of them. But Rudy balked at being photographed even with his arm around Alice.1/17/1934 EHE WIFE NAMES THIRD VALLEE CASE 'JANE DOE' (headline across top of front page) New York, 1/17 A mysterious Los Angeles woman--Jane Doe 3-today entered the marital dispute between Fay Web Vallee and her crooning husband, Rudy Vallee. In an amendment to her separate maintenance suit, in which Mrs. Vallee already has accused Rudy of misconduct with Alice Faye, blues singer, Jane Doe 1 and Jane Doe 2, she charged that on Jan. 4, last in LA, Rudy associated with Jane Doe 3. The amendment also listed 12 asserted acts of misconduct between Vallee and Miss Faye in cities along the Atlantic seaboard in 1932 and 1933.1/18/1934 LAX TRIANGLE GROWS Into the Rudy Vallee-Fay Webb marital battle came yesterday the stinging answer of Alice Faye, film actress, to the charges against her in Mrs. Vallee's separate maintenance complaint. With Rudy in the East, well removed from the scene of warfare, it was a woman arrayed against woman, with words for their weapons! CHARGES MISCONDUCT Mrs. Vallee, incidentally including a third Jane Doe in the list of Rudy's asserted intimate friends, set forth in an amendment to her complaint, twelve cities and dates where and when she charges Vallee and Miss Faye were guilty of misconduct. Back came Miss Faye with the emphatic declaration that, so far from seeking to take Miss Vallee's place, she was never more than "a shoulder on which Mr. Vallee might cry when he was grieving over his wife's attitude toward him and her failure to return his love." "I am informed that Mrs. Vallee has made certain further charges of misconduct between Mr. Vallee and myself in a document entitled ‘Amendment to the Complaint,'" she said. "These are, of course, positively false." "As I have previously stated, Mr. Vallee and I were never more than friends and co-workers. During the time specified in the amendment to the complaint I was employed as a singer with the Connecticut Yankees. At the times mentioned were on tour of a number of cities in the South and East. "During practically all that time we were accompanied by a number of wives of the men in the orchestra. I was rarely alone with Mr. Vallee. "I know that constantly during that time he was very much in love with his wife. Time and again I noticed him sending wires to Mrs. Vallee, writing her letters and making long distance telephone calls. I know that he begged and pleaded with her to join him. His heart and mind were on his wife and at no time on any other girl. "I have never been anything to Mr. Vallee other than a friend, and the most friendly of all acts I have ever done for him was, figuratively speaking, to give him a shoulder on which to cry when his wife's conduct and attitude toward him caused him so much grief and mental suffering. "That is, he had to have someone to talk to about his troubles, and I was that someone. "At those times I did all in my power to cheer him and talk him out of the despondency caused by Mrs. Vallee's refusal to join him or to reciprocate the great love I know he had for her." To Miss Faye's denial of the charges affecting her, attorney Samuel S. Zagon of the firm of Zagon and Aaron, representing Vallee, last night added the assurance that the new charges in the amendment to the complaint would be denied by his client. "Jane Doe Three," said to be a film player, is "all news to us," Zagon said. Attorney Ben Cohen, representing Mrs. Vallee, said the identity of "Jane Doe Three," now included in the list of Vallee's asserted intimate friends, would be guarded unless it became necessary to reveal it. The complaint merely accuses Vallee of intimacy with the unnamed woman in Los Angeles on Last January 4. ANSWER SOON Vallee's answer to the original suit will be filed this week, Zagon said, as soon as papers bearing his signature reach Los Angeles. His sudden departure for the East made it necessary to send the papers racing after him, to catch up with him in Chicago. On January 24, when the hearing is scheduled on Mrs. Vallee's petition for $7400 a month temporary alimony—a hearing continued from yesterday—Vallee's attorneys expect to make a second effort to quash the separate maintenance suit on the ground that Mrs. Vallee has not resided in California long enough to bring suit. A previous motion, seeking to set aside the local proceedings and transfer the entire matter to New York, was denied without prejudice by Superior Judge Thomas C. Gould. Before Superior Judge Dudley Valentine yesterday, when the continuance on the alimony hearing was granted, counsel for both sides agreed that $500 in salary due Alice Faye from Fox Film Company, tied up under a temporary restraining order, may be released. Other restraining orders affecting Vallee's own salary continue in effect. Mrs. Vallee's amendment to her complaint, in addition to including another woman in the list of Vallee's alleged intimate friends, specifically lists twelve cities and dates where and when she charges that Vallee and Miss Faye were guilty of misconduct. HER LIST The list reads: January 26, 1933, Jacksonville, Fla.; between January 28 and February 10, 1933, Tampa, Fla; February 9, 1933, Winston-Salem, N.C.; during February, 1933, Columbia, S.C.; February 11, 1933, Atlanta, Ga.; February 14, 1933, Memphis, Tenn.; February 18, 1933, Charlotte, N.C.; February 19, 1933, Greensburg, N.C.; August 2, 1932, Asbury Park, N.J.; April 2, 1933, Newcastle, Pa., and November 21, 1932, Boston, Mass. Vallee and Miss Faye were on tour with his orchestra during these months. Mrs. Vallee is now in seclusion at the home of her father, police chief of Santa Monica. A questionnaire on file with the complaint itemizes the $7400 monthly allowance Mrs. Vallee asks as follows: For servants, including cook, butler, chef, chauffeur and personal maid, $100 a month each; for maintenance of her home, $1000 a month; for a private secretary, $200 a month; for a masseuse, $150 a month; for cosmetics, jewelry, insurance, flowers, launder, automobile upkeep, etc., $3960 a month.1/20/1934 EHE Strolling Along Hollywood's Gossipy Corners With Jimmy Starr It may sound FUNNY to you, but it wasn't to Alice Faye. Somebody STOLE her costume while she was working in George White's Fox movie of Scandals.1/27/1934 HCN Behold Them Minus Hokum By Peter Pry Alice Faye, who has her mother and brother here with her, is pining away with loneliness. Her pet chow, killed by an automobile some time ago, has been replaced by another chow puppy. She does not reveal the identity of the donor, but her eyes shine when she dodges the subject. Since Rudy Vallee fled from town, Alice has refused to go about with any other man.2/6/1934 EHE WHITE OFFERS FAY WEBB ROLE IN SCANDALS By Harrison Carroll New clashes in the Rudy Vallee-George White feud appeared imminent today when the New York producer admitted he is seeking Fay Webb Vallee to appear in his Scandals, scheduled to open on Broadway around Decoration Day. 'It's true that I have made Fay an offer,' said White today. ' I know her very well and she's a nice girl.' If Fay consents to appear in the Scandals, the producer said, he will use her in a series of sketches or blackouts, as they are known in revue parlance. 'She also can sing a little,' added White. 'I might be able to use her in a number.' All of which, believes Hollywood, will only add to the bad blood that existed between the crooning star and the producer during the recent filming of the Scandals at the Fox studio. In this picture Rudy and Alice Faye, who is mentioned with him in Mrs. Vallee's suit for separate maintenance, played leading parts, while White acted as a cross between a director and a supervisor. Time and time again the two men had words. Once Rudy sought to walk out on a late session on the set, but was marooned on a 20' band platform when White refused to let anyone bring a ladder. At another time the pair were ready to exchange blows when associates parted them. With a smile White denied that the trouble had anything to do with his offer to Mrs. Vallee. He said he has not yet received her answer. ARMISTICE ENDS IN LEGAL BATTLES OF FAY AND RUDY That the armistice in the legal battles of Fay Webb Vallee and her radio crooner husband, Rudy Vallee, is at an end was indicated today when attorneys said they were prepared to argue Rudy's demurrer to his wife's complaint for separate maintenance before Superior Judge Thomas C. Gould. Mrs. Vallee in her suit named two Jane Does with whom she asserted her husband had been intimate. Vallee in his demurrer declared the complaint to be insufficient because it did not give the real names of the women. Hearing on the demurrer has been twice postponed because it was stated the parties had agreed to leave the matter in abeyance pending hearing on the other legal proceeding in New York City. Should the demurrer be sustained, Mrs. Vallee may be given permission to amend her complaint. If it is over-ruled, Vallee will be required to file an answer to the complaint. Tomorrow Mrs. Vallee is due to appear before Superior Judge Dudley S. Valentine to testify in her claim for $7450 a month temporary alimony pending hearing of her separate maintenance suit. She claims that this amount is necessary for her support, also asks for allowance of $50,000 for counsel fees.2/13/1934 EHE Jimmy Starr ...Alice Faye was a-cutting up at the Cotton Club with Lyle Talbot, the ever-changing-romantic chapie...2/15/1934 IDN Radio By Kenneth Frogley Tallulah Bankhead and comic Tom Howard are Rudy Vallee's leading guests at 5pm on KFI, along with Doris Roache, the crooner's latest discovery, who is slated to take Alice Faye's place with his band.2/21/1934 HCN Elizabeth Yeaman Spencer Tracy is one of the most hard-worked actors in Hollywood today. Spencer is just back from the MGM lot where he was loaned by Fox for the lead in Show Off. Fox has the starring role in Now I'll Tell, ready for him immediately. This is the story written by the widow of Arnold Rothstein, in which Helen Twelvetrees and Alice Faye will have the feminine leads. And the moment that picture is finished, Spencer will help to launch Ketti Gallian on her Hollywood film debut in Marie Gallante. 3/3/1934 LAX Louella O. Parsons The Alice Fay-Rudy Vallee romance is no more. At the time Rudy hurriedly left Hollywood bound for New York on a sudden decision to have his divorce case tried in Manhattan, he and the platinum Faye were very good friends. But distance seems to have put a quietus on their mutual interest. Rudy, busy with his broadcast in New York, and Alice, thoroughly sold on the idea of a Fox movie career, are no longer keeping the long distance telephones and telegraph wires humming.3/6/1934 LAX Louella O. Parsons Alice Faye saw herself for the first time on the screen at a preview of The George White Scandals at Winfield Sheehan's house. She photographs well and her song number, "Nasty Man," is sure to become a hit. Alice rushed from the projection room to telephone Lyle Talbot to let him know just how happy she was over the many nice things said to her. The George White's Scandals has three sequences that are corking and many original numbers. Does George White give himself a break? He is in nearly every scene.3/13/1934 LAX ‘TWO-BIT' RECORD OF VOICE GETS ALICE FAYE CONTRACT A two-bit phonograph recording of her voice brought Alice Faye to the attention of Rudy Vallee. Alice was singing in a New York musical show chorus. She had little confidence in her ability as a singer or actor, but a friend played the record for Vallee, and Alice was at once engaged for his musical organization. When Rudy brought his company to Hollywood for George White's Scandals, Miss Faye came along expecting to play a small part and perhaps sing a song or two. Tests at the studio promised better for her, and within three days she was playing the leading role, and Winfield Sheehan had signed her to a contract. All this rapid rise has been a bit confusing to the young actress, whose first picture will be seen on the screen at Loew's State tomorrow. In the new Fox film, George White's Scandals, she has songs to sing and opportunities to look her loveliest. Her acting, according to preview critics, indicates that here is a new figure in the Hollywood scene, and one well worth consideration. Miss Faye is working in Now I'll Tell with Helen Twelvetrees and Spencer Tracy, and Edwin Burke directing.3/15/1934 LAX George White's Scandals By Louella O. Parsons The film version of George White's Scandals, playing this week at Loew's State Theater, has the flavor of a genuine New York revue. It resembles those famous Broadway musicals invented to make the tired business man less tired. In addition to lavish settings, the gorgeous girls and dance routines, there are some very catchy song numbers and an amusing threesome, including Rudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante and Cliff Edwards. Particularly good are Rudy and Jimmy, who carry the burden of comedy on their shoulders. Impossible to enumerate each big moment, but the dog-sequence and the baby buggy number are excellent musical comedy episodes. Platinum blonde Alice Faye is a distinct addition to the screen. Easy to look at and with a personality and voice, she puts over her numbers in great style. "Nasty Man" and "Every Time You Hold My Hand" are sure-fire hits. Rudy Vallee has the same screen personality that won him international radio fame, and Jimmy Durante has never been better. My only criticism is a too obvious bally-hoo for George White. He bobs up for no good reason in the box office scene and again throughout the picture. But even White's self-exploitation hasn't spoiled the picture or producer Robert Kane's efforts to give us good entertainment. The story of George White's Scandals is weak, perhaps, but the gorgeous settings and catchy song hits compensate for any shortcomings in plot. All the best talent which Monsieur White uses in his New York revues was commandeered for the screen version. You will laugh at Gregory Ratoff as the super-salesman. Warren Hymer as the wrestler, and Adrienne Ames as the heavy complete the cast. Ray Henderson, Irving Caesar and Jack Yellen, who are the big timers on Broadway, have written the perfectly grand musical numbers. William Conselman is credited with the screen play, and the million dollar beauties in their million dollar trappings are made arty by William Darling as art director. Lee Garmes and George Schneider furnish some extra good photography, with Thornton Freeland directing the stars and Harry Lachman the musical numbers. In addition to the George White Scandals this week, there are Melodies of Love, an organlogue; adventures of a newsreel cameraman, Outdoing the Daredevils, and a scenic novelty, Mediterranean Blues.3/17/1934 MPH SHOWMEN'S REVIEWS George White's Scandals(Fox)Musical As a backstage musical, this picture differs from all the other sin that it devotes itself exclusively to the preservation of the peculiar color, glamor and entertainment values associated with the George White stage extravaganzas. Like a legitimate revue, it's a parade of a dozen or fifteen sketches, all of which are held together by a thin and practically meaningless story. Done in the spirit of a Broadway show, it's racy, vivid in song, gag, dialogue and action expression, and save in one or two instances, full of the atmosphere that the title tone commonly suggests. It sings and dances almost continuously, interspersing specialty sequences, and, flashing back every now and then to accepted picture-making formula, quickly picks up and drops the story premise. There's definite charm and beauty to much of the show, particularly the Alice Faye-Vallee duets, "Hold My Hand" and "Sweet and Simple," and the tuneful, eye-pleasing chorus dancing accompanying them. The same is true of Durante's blackface "Cabin in the Cotton." There's punch in Cliff Edwards' "Six Women" and the Edwards-Dixie Dunbar "So Nice." There's comedy in the blackout gags. And though it is hardly possible that the submerged story will interest any one, it has certain theatre values. But there's much that comes dangerously close to being objectionable in the suggested sense of the Alice Faye "Nasty Man" song, especially when the infants pick up the chorus. Similarly the dog action accompanying the Vallee, Faye, Durante, Dunbar rendered "Your Dog Loves My Dog," as well as in the Vallee, Edwards, Durante "Every Day is Father's Day," whose action satirized the geometric dance arrangement of other pictures and in which the win-the carriage infants give their fathers a realistic raspberry. For general understanding Scandals is an ultra modern combination of Broadway high-class revue entertainment and old-fashioned Fourteenth Street burlesque show technique. It does what it claims to do; put the George White "Scandals" on film.—McCarthy, Hollywood. Fox release. Entire production, conceived, created and directed by George White. Directed by George White and Harry Lachman. Music by Ray Henderson. Lyrics by Jack Yellen and Irving Caesar. Executive producer, Robert T. Kane. Running time, 68 minutes. Release date, March 26, 1934. CASTRudy Vallee, Jimmy Durante, Alice Faye, Adrienne Ames, Cliff Edwards, Gregory Ratoff, Dixie Dunbar, Gertrude Michael, Warren Hymer, Armand Kaliz, Roger Grey, William Bailey, George Irving, Richard Carle, Ed Le Fainte, Eunice Coleman, Martha Merrill, Lois Eckhart, Hilda Knight, Peggy Moseley, Lucille Walker, Edna May Jones, Marie Ormiston, George White.3/17/1934 EHE STROLLING ALONG HOLLYWOOD'S GOSSIPY CORNERS WITH JIMMY STARR Lyle Talbot and Alice Faye, in an effort to ESCAPE columnists, have taken to eating at Carpenter's sandwich stands. And I've been nibbling there to ESCAPE actor!3/18/1934 LAX ALICE TELLS OF RUDY'S FRIENDSHIP By Jerry Hoffman "Nothing of the sort." Alice Faye wasn't indignant. She was being very calm and very gracious in view of what might have been considered an impertinent question. "Is the romance between yourself and Rudy Vallee over?" I had asked. "Nothing of the sort," she replied. "The romance isn't ended, simply because it never started. We've been excellent friends and I hope we always will continue as such. "You must realize," and Alice turned those wide blue eyes on me with all their warmth, "that I owe a great deal to Rudy Vallee. I think the world of him and rumor mongers and gossip hounds are not gong to succeed is breaking up my friendship with him. "After all," she continued, "it was Rudy who gave me the first big opportunity I ever had. I had been playing small-time vaudeville when Rudy permitted me one of those auditions he occasionally gives newcomers. It was from the audition that I got a contract, and eventually went into George White's "Scandals." "I would have to be pretty much of an ingrate and a vicious persons if I didn't appreciate what he has done for me. I've had the benefit of his advice—and you must know that Rudy Vallee is an unusually smart business man. His continued success is the best proof of that." I felt very flattered when Alice Faye had held back statements regarding the Vallee situation since she arrived in Hollywood to sing just one number in the Fox production of George White's Scandals. When Lilian Harvey's difficulties with Fox resulted in the Harvey leaving the prima donna role of Scandals, the little Faye was assigned to the feminine lead. The results may be seen at Loew's State Theater this week. "Did Rudy mind your remaining behind in Hollywood?" I inquired. Alice had been given a long-term contract after the executives saw her work in Scandals. "No. On the contrary," when he saw there was an opportunity for me to remain in pictures and go further than I could on the air, he advised me to take advantage of it." "Even," I interrupted, (not quite maliciously), "if it meant separating the two of your for more than a year?" She never batted an eyelash. "Or longer than that," she threw right back at me. "That's one of the differences between romance and friendship. One can survive distance and time." She's actually still a child, is this ash-blonde little Faye. Still in her ‘teens, right now the prospect of really getting somewhere in pictures occupies almost all her thoughts. "Almost," I say, with two exceptions. From 5 to 6 on Thursdays she's locked in with a radio. And the only man in Hollywood she'll go places with is Lyle Talbot. "Lyle is a swell boy, isn't he?" she said. It seemed to me her tone was just a bit dreamy. Or was it?3/22/1934 LAX Louella O. Parsons ...Alice Faye, who is going places with Lyle Talbot to the exclusion of all her other boy friends, in a ringside seat at the Olympic fights....