 "Neilan's "The Vagabond Lover" features the adenoidal singing and ungodly dance-band music of Ruby Vallee, who displays the preoccupied concern of a man trying to pass a kidney stone; his acting ability was of the sort usually found only in sixth-grade plays.Vallee makes Crosby look like Cagney and plays the kind of music that Spike Jones mercilessly parodied.It's the film of a director at a total loss; actors stumble over their lines but plow gamely ahead, and Neilan keeps the footage in the film.