Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cranial wheels go round, Psychologist Thorndike two years ago began to test U. S. cities to see which ones were fit for mankind to live in. So important did the Carnegie Corp. consider this study that it gave $100,000 to finance it. Dr. Thorndike and his collaborator, Dr. Ella Woodyard, selected 117 middle-sized cities, gathered data about them on some 120 traits. From these he picked 23 items which he thought most people would agree were attributes of a good town-a low death rate, high per capita expenditures for education, libraries, parks and recreation, rarity of extreme...
...outstanding 52nd Street characters appear in 52nd Street. Scottish Crooner Ella Logan went to Hollywood last year from Leon & Eddie's, a loud, vulgar hot-spot specializing in bawdy songs. Cadaverous, fast-cracking Jack White, rowdy Roscius of 52nd Street's 18 Club, is the film's most authentic touch, although it makes meagre use of his extraordinary repertory. At home in his hurly-burly 18 Club, Comic White welcomes visiting Babbitts with orchestral fanfares and vanishing birthday cakes, dons cop's garb to unsnarl traffic jams around the comfort stations, fishes for hecklers, whom...
...thousand sweltering women from 36 countries gathered in Constitution Hall in Washington last week to participate in the 16th triennial world meeting of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union. World President Mrs. Ella Alexander Boole, as a prelude to her reelection, told the meeting that drinking by women is one of the great "causes of maternal death," praised Germany's Hitler because he gave the beverage concession at last summer's Olympic Village to the Deutscher Frauenbund der Abstinenz (Nazi W. C. T. U.). is a total abstainer, supports restaurants which serve no beer...
...from European travels and who designs to victimize him so that she can live at ease with her true love Henri (Erik Rhodes). To forestall Virginia's schemes, Henri, at one point in the proceedings, chases her into a magnolia tree. To forestall Henri, Virginia's ally (Ella Logan) bites Henri...
...Universal's first splurge in musicomedy since its reorganization superimposes tap dancing by George Murphy, who apes Fred Astaire, and by eleven-year-old Peggy Ryan, who apes Eleanor Powell; singing by Gertrude Niesen, imported from radio; clowning by The Three Sailors, imported from vaudeville; Scotch dialect by Ella Logan, who also sings, dances and makes faces; and specialty bits by Mischa Auer, Gregory Ratoff, Hugh Herbert, Henry Armetta. The climax occurs in the night club when patrons and performers mingle in a musical mob scene which for pure size is the most ambitious of the season. Best song...