Word: eleanore
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Songwriters Mack Gordon & Harry Revel and Manhattan Actress Whitney Bourne, they even used a back stage plot about a cabaret entertainer who becomes a radio singer while her partner (Louis Borell) goes to Hollywood, laid the scene in Paris, dressed the star as much as possible like Eleanor Powell...
...ELEANOR or AQUITAINE-Melrich V. Rosenberg-Houghton Mifflin ($3.50). Routine but interesting first English biography of the 12th Century "Queen of the Troubadours and of the Courts of Love" whose political intrigues relieved her not only of royal husbands, Louis VII and Henry II, but also of her favorite son, Richard the Lion-Heart...
There is good entertainment in the two features, but one must sit through several reels of crude comedy, mediocre songs, and half-baked acting before being allowed to enjoy it. The dancing of Johnny Downs and Eleanor Whitney in "College Holiday" is top-notch, as are the anties of electrician Ben Blue. "Sing Me A Love Song" presents James Melton, who really can sing, and Patricia Ellis, who really can't act. But as a kleptomaniac who must have even stolen his name, it being Seigfried Hammerschlagg, Hugh Herbert steals all the good sequences of this picture...
...next four years have begun!" So wrote Columnist Eleanor Roosevelt day after her husband's reinauguration. Before last week was out she might better have written, "So the new term has been baptized." One baptism took place when five-month-old Grandson Elliott Jr. was christened in the White House...
...President had a halfbrother. James Roosevelt, his father, first married Rebecca Rowland. She bore him one child, a son who was named James Roosevelt Roosevelt. He had a minor diplomatic career, died in 1927. Anna Eleanor Roosevelt was not an only child. One brother, Elliott, died in 1893, aged 4. Surviving brother, Gracie Hall Roosevelt, onetime (1930-32) Controller of Detroit, is currently promoting a combination bus and rail...