Music: As Time Goes By

We're poor little lambs, who have lost

our way,

Baa, baa, baa.

Had Rudy Vallee, who made these words of Yale's Whiffenpoof Song nationally famous, lost his way? Last week he tried to find out.

In Chicago, the once adored Vagabond Lover took a flyer at a nightclub comeback, though he didn't call it that ("You can't come back from where you haven't been"). Unlike Oldtimer Al Jolson, Rudy Vallee hadn't learned that his future was in his past. Still looking like a college boy—but of the class of '25, Rudy said: "People have me returning from the zombie dead. I don't look or...