Hollywood (Jan - Oct 1934)

Rudy's Vagabond Dreams Continued from pane thirty-one By September 1932 they had signed a separation agreement and Fay was on her way home to papa, who is chief of police in Santa Monica. At this time there seemed to be no intention of divorce. Fay, however, slipped out of town without seeing reporters and turned up in Reno a few days later, announcing her intention of establishing a separate residence in order to untie the knot. But it was not the end — not quite. Fay called Rudy by long distance phone at Atlantic City, where he was fulfilling an orchestra engagement. No one knew what conversation took place between them, but afterwards Fay said to reporters: "It was all a mistake. I was a little fool to think of divorce. Rudy and I are madly in love with each other." This reunion was brief. Kathleen Smythe Leon filed suit against Fay, charging alienation of the affections of her husband, Gary Leon, the adagio dancer who later figured in the charges and countercharges that flew back and forth in the New York tabloids. When Fay unexpectedly filed a suit for separate maintenance — $7,450 a month she asked — a storm of headlines broke: "FAY'S LOVE SECRETS BARED BY VALLEE." "FAY'S LAWYER THREATENS 'SENSATION' IF RUDY SUES." "FAY PINS THREE 'JANE DOES' ON RUDY LOVE LIST." Day After Day the parade of big type went on while Rudy, hard at work on The Scandals at the Fox studios in Hollywood, tried desperately to keep up a killing pace — conferring with his attorneys . . . rehearsing his band ... organizing his broadcasts . . . interviewing insistent reporters ... It was little wonder that his nerves were lashed raw and he became irritable as he faced the situation day after day. He is just an idealistic boy at heart and the idea that what started as love could reap such a whirlwind was a shattering blow. His vagabond dreams have collapsed again. What he hoped might be an amiable separation and divorce became a pitched battle with every move in each camp spotlighted by the newspapers. As this is written, Rudy Vallee is still struggling with the broken fragments of his private life. Bewildered, he is trying to piece them together again. He refuses to talk, even of Alice Faye, the lovely eighteen-year-old girl who starred in his radio shows and who is now well on the road to screen stardom. Here, too, it appears that Rudy may eventually face disillusionment providing of course that his interest in Miss Faye should go deeper than mere friendship. Alice has a career of her own and is fast learning the fascination of a new world. 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