Salt Lake Telegram | 1939-01-28 | Page 9 | Knock, Knocks Fail to Rouse Rudy Vallee

Knock, Knocks Fail to Rouse Rudy Vallee Crooner, Actress, Other Notables Pass Through S. L The hard-hitting crooner Rudy Vallee had been dealt a knockout blow In Salt Lake City Saturday. On the giving end of the punch waa Morpheus, patron-god of Joe Louis' challengers. Still dead to the world oa he arrived ar-rived here on the Union Pacific streamliner at 10:30 Saturday, Rudy couldn't be aroused. - Reporters took turns pounding on ths crooner's compartment door, but they huffed and puffed to aa avail. The train porter Insistsd Mr. Vallee Val-lee waa asleep and said be waa en route to the preaident'a ball . in Washington, D. C. Othsrs aboard the train were William Wil-liam K. Howard, British film director; di-rector; Mrs. Henry Hathaway, wife of the Hollywood motion picture director; Sam Caslow, a song writer; writ-er; Richard A. Carrington Jr, publisher pub-lisher of the Loa Angelea Examiner, and LIU Damita, film actress. L af J ' ' V- VF Ik i OFFICIAL VISITS Merrill Bernard of Washington, D. C, chief of the river and flood division of ths United 8tatea weather bureau, en route to Washington Wash-ington from the Pacific coast, Saturday Sat-urday visMed here with J. Cecil Alter, Al-ter, federal meteorologist. MEMBER OF THE SHUT-EYE GENTRY Lili Damita didn't lift her head from pillow BTTUNG CROONER GETS SLEEP K, Rudy Vallee loses round to Morpheus