Rudy Vallee Would Change Words of "Harvardiana" and Make "Good Drinking Song"--"Giving Harvard a Good Plug"

New York City, October 5--Rudolph "Rudy" Vallee, Yale '26 and Maine varsity letter man, denied today having had any correspondence with Harvard officials relative to the recording and popularizing of "Harvardiana" and "Our Director", two Harvard songs to which the famous New York crooner had supposedly been denied the rights, and declared that in making phonograph records of the songs he believed that he "was giving Harvard a good plug just as he had done for Maine with the 'Stein Song'".

The famous radio artist and conductor of the Connecticut Yankees, interviewed between performances at the Brooklyn Paramount theatre, where he has been appearing as master of ceremonies, was surprised when shown news dispatches from Cambridge stating that he would not be allowed to use the songs. It is understood that records played by Vallee's orchestra are now in preparation.

Mr. Vallee also went on record as saying that he had seriously considered changing the words of "Harvardiana" and make it a "good drinking song" and that in this respect it "had possibilities", but that he had changed his mind and decided against it in order to spare the feelings of the Harvard Alumni. He stated that, he had unqualified permission from the composer, Raymond Williams, to do this if he wanted to.

Rumors to the effect that Vallee had been denied the orchestration to the songs emanated from the offices of the Harvard band last week. The officers of the band, it is understood, refused to send the score of the Harvard tunes, to Vallee so that they might be transcribed into the traditional Vallee manner. It was also intimated that the famous director sought the Harvard songs before he acquired the "Maine Stein Song", but, balked then, his success with the latter had led him to make records of the Crimson tunes now anyway.