Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-29

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wv Years, the foot ball season
is over, and I, for one, am
glad. Not that it hasn't
been fun. I've enjoyed every minute
Of 1t, but think can do without any
foot ball very nicely until next Fall.
There were plenty of great moments
remember that 95-yard run?-but I'm
not going to indulge in any post NOR
TENS. I am not even going to select
| an all-American team.
Several persons have asked for such
selection from broadcaster's point
OF view, but 1t seems to me that no
one man today could possibly select
such q team with any degree Of fair
ness. First of, it is impossible to see
all the big teams in action. 1t was
different once, when practically all Of
the big teams were those of the East
ern colleges and universities. Today,
though, there are find squads not only
In the East, but in the Middle West,
hope to watch a quarter of them at
work during the season. How, then,
| Is he going to judge how good individual
/ members OF those teams are? Tackles,
guards and centerS don't often get the
breaks in newspaper stories Of games
unless they happen to do something
| spectacular, so how would it be possible
10 PICK IlI1e ana consider 1OE IL men
| you never had seen?
There are some fine players on small
| college teams whom broadcasters and
prominent sports writers never see or
hear OF. What about them? And, of
| course, there Is always the fact to be
faced that stars are made at the be-
| ginning Of the season, when a lot of
loose playing by comparative green
horns allows the old hands to do their
stuff. Later in the season the good
| teams work as units, and the early
Personally believe the all-American
team is as paSse as peg-top pants. Like
the Call me up some time, won't your"
| OF casual acquaintance, it doesn't mean
thing.
Jones and Hare Near Record.
Six years in one show would be q
remarkable record for an actor, but
there are two men on the air who are
about to achieve that record. They
are Billy Jones and Ernie Hare, and al
| though they write a new act every week,
1t is substantially the same as the one
with which they began. A couple Of
J duets, a few solos, half a dozen Jokes
| and a bit Of badinage and you have
! the recipe for successful entertainment
| that has never let them down.
| Billy and Ernie say they work hard
on their shows before every perform
ance, and I know 1t Is true, for I have
seen them sweating for hours at time
trying to whip their material into an
easy-dowinR half hour Of entertain
ment. When they are on the air,
though, 1t seems as II the whole thing
were spontaneous. One can't believe
they are reading their lines from the
scripts they hold in their hands as
thew stand before the microphone. Billy
lets ny with q wise crack and digs Ernie
in the ribs to drive home the point. Ernie
accompanies a Super-sentimental song
with ppropriate-too appropriateness
lures. The orchestra leader has to
pipe down the chuckles among his men.
Much as they really enjoy clowning
in the studio Jones and Hare admit
that it Is done for a purpose. Their
stuff must be informal or it won't
take" And the only way of making
1t sound informal when it comes
Through a loud speaker is 10 create a
highly informal attitude In the studio.
Billy tells me their antics are not al
ways appreciated by visitors to the stu
dos. The other night very dour
Yankee was among the visitors. 1t
turned out he was so deaf he couldn't
hear much beyond the drums and
trombones of the orchestra and, OF
course, Ernie's and Billys songs ana
Jokes were lost When he was intro
duced to Billy at the end OF the pro-
gram, the latter asked him how he mad
liked the show.
Well, guess it was all right" said
the visitor. but that other feller's act
ing when he sang that song was so bad
1 nearly bust out laughing"
ValIee Is Plenty Busy.
Until I was overtaken by a second
thought the other day. wondered why
with his immense popularity. there are
so few anecdotes about Rudy Vallee,
and then I realized that that young
man is so busy that he never gives an
anecdote chance to settle on him.
IhoSe VINO have seen him on the stage
or at his night club have remarked that
weary look which some have called the
other reason for his attraction for
women. That weary look, let me assure
you, Is not assumed. He comes by 1t
honestly.
Rudy works all week on about five
hours Of sleep a night. Ordinarily he
arises about 8 o'clock, has breakfast
and then spends the rest of the morn
ing granting interviews, posing for