Word: elinore
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...artist's own aunt was Elinor ("Fanny" was a nickname) Smith, his mother's sister, who lived with the Bellowses when George was a child. Aunt Fanny, who had no children of her own, helped keep the house spick & span, saw to it that young George was always dressed in starched tidiness. She even taught him to whistle while he was still in his baby carriage. In middle age, Aunt Fanny married and moved to California, but in 1920, when she was over 70, she came on a visit to her nephew's home in Woodstock...
...Boston theatre is subjected to scrutiny which could make plays replace McGuffey's Reader in the first grade," Elinor Hughes, drama critic of the Boston Herald, told the Law School Forum last night...
Taking about the controversial subject will be Dwight S. Strong, executive secretary of the New England Watch and Ward Society; Elinor Hughes, drama critic of the Boston Herald; The Very Rev. Msgr. Francis J. Lally, editor of the Boston Pilot; and Gerald A. Berlin, Director of the Commission of Law and Social Justice of the New England Division of the American Jewish Congress...
Aleksandr Borodin's first musical since Prince Igor hit the boards in 1890 is an entertaining show, in spite of some remarkably shoddy ingredients. Unlike Igor, Kismet's big assist comes from Minsky rather than Rimsky. With the vigorous cootch dance that shocked Elinor Hughes on opening night, bare-tummied slave girls paraded "for sale or for rent," and a number of jokes like, "Call me in the harem; I'll be lying down there," Kismet is often indistinguishable from Harem Nights at the Old Howard. Further debits are abominable lyrics ("We'll coo adicu without undue ado"), a script...
Introduced by the show's original announcer Bill Hay (who came out of retirement for the occasion), they brought back a few such famous characters as Lillian ("Madame Queen") Randolph and Elinor ("Ruby") Harriet, and recalled some favorite milestones from their script life: Madame Queen's breach of promise suit against Andy (". . . We was engaged 147 times in one year . . . an' it woulda been more dan dat if we'd been goin' steady"); Andy's first meeting with Kingfish- played by Gosden (Andy: "Say, scusee me for protrudin', stranger...