The Washington times., 1934-01-17
CROONER BARES
JUST HOW FAY
WAS CAUGHT
Extension Phone in Room of
Maid Gave Him Evidence
introduced in Case

LOS ANOELES, Jan. IL
U.N.SD A mysterious Los An
geles woman, "Jane Doe GEN
tered the marital dispute be-
tween Fay Webb ValIee and her
grooming husband, Rudy Vallee,
today. In an amendment to her
separate maintenance suit, in
which Mrs. Vallee has already
accused Rudy of misconduct
with Alice Faye, blues singer,
and Jane Doe l and Jane Doe 2,
she charged that on January 4
last, in Los Angeles, Rudy aSsO-
Ciated with Jane Doe 3. The
amendment also listed IL alleged
acts of misconduct.
NEW YORK, Jan. II QN.S).
Rudy Vallee arrived in New
York today from a picture-mak-
ing stay on the coast and told
fully the circumstances which he
AYERS led to the breaking up Of
his marriage.
He also told for the first time
how the records Of alleged con-
versations between Fay Webb VAL
lee, his wife, and Gary Leon, an
adagio dancer, were made.
He was met at the Grand Cen
tral as the Twentieth Century
pulled in by eight of the girls
who circulate in semi-nude cos
tune among the tables of a
Broadway restaurant in which he
is to open an engagement. Today
the girls had donned heavy sweat
erS with big "Y's" and chs" and
the trousers which are uniform
with ski jumpers.
Members of his band played
''Your Time Is My Time" as Rudy
detrained and ropes had to be
strung across the station to keep
1000 commuters from blocking
the exits.
Meets the Press
Rudy, Immediately repaired to
his offices in the Steinway Build
ing for a press interview. Look
ing tired and drawn, he sat be-
hind a large executives desk and
pulled the curtains which revealed
q view of Central Park. Hyman
BuShel, his lawyer, sat on the ra-
diator behind him.
It was then that Americas num-
Der one crooner barred his sorrows
to the press. He was patient under
questioning until one Of the re-
porterS asked him if he had not
been tempted to punch Gary Leon
in the nose.
Rudy flushed. He said:
'Lay off the SchOOlbOy stuff.
If you treat me as gentleman,
I'll answer your questions. If
you're going to kid me, well end
this right now"
Rudy then continued:
zone month after my marri-
age something happened that
I can't tell about now.
It seemed that the "SOme-
thing" was patched up. His wife
had gone to Reno to obtain q
divorce but q reconciliation Oc-
CURED and 1--WE tried to make a
60 of things again."
Rudy said:
''My marriage had cost me a
lot of money and I hoped to
make q success of it."
AN EXTENSION PHONE
Early last year. he said, his
brother William had come to him
and asked:
eff I bring you undeniable
evidence, are you willing to face
the facts?"
Rudy said that he had been
reluctant, but had agreed. They
put in an extension phone into
the maids room in his apartment
in Central Park west. Rudy pro-
tested:
"tNO wire tapping, a perfectly
legitimate telephone extension"
It seems that Rudy already had
an electrical recording machine in
his office which he had used for
rehearSals. They moved it into
the maids room and hooked it up.
Rudy said:
'cNOt One-tenth Of the ma
terial in those recordings has
been published and 1 hope to
God the rest never will be.
"You may think those records
made good copy, but you should
hear them played with intOna-
tiOnS and everything"
SHE FOUND LOVE
What precipitated the thing,
Rudy said, was a visit Mrs. Vallee
had made to Gary Icons dressing
room in a movie house in the
Bronx. Leon is an adagio dancer.
Rudy said:
"She was clOSeted with him
for two hours.
I'VE have a letter she wrote
Leon, saying, Last night found
love- 1t refers to the night Of
January 3, when / was playing
in Albany and when, as I learned
later, he was at my apartment"
Rudy was asked how he got
the letter. BuShel interrupted:
"That letter came to us after
the separation agreement"
Pinned down as to the source
Of the letter, Bushel finally said
that it had come from a lawyer
representing a woman who was
contemplating taking action
against Leon. Bushel said: