Word: ella
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Chicago Widow Ella M, Rainey realized $10,000 from the auction of the library of her late husband, Speaker of the House Henry Thomas Rainey. The quill pen with which Woodrow Wilson signed the U. S. Declaration of War against Germany brought...
...Engaged. Ella Sturgis Pillsbury, daughter of Boardchairman John Sargent Pillsbury of Pillsbury Flour Mills Co.; and Thomas Manville Crosby, son of Vice President Franklin Muzzy Crosby of General Mills, Inc. (flour) ; in Minneapolis...
...Ella Wheeler Wilcox plays the mandolin; Groucho Marx, Bing Crosby and Edsel Ford's son Henry II, the guitar; William Randolph Hearst used to strum a banjo. Not any of these but 1,500 other adepts of fretted instruments gathered last week in Minneapolis for the 35th annual convention of the American Guild of Banjoists, Mandolinists & Guitarists. Convention manager and official host was Chester William Gould, 36, a big, loud-voiced banjoist, organizer of the 50-piece Gould Mandolin Orchestra, which this week was to perform a Mexican Fantasia in costume, and of the champion Go-piece Gould Banjo...
...from broughams and leg-of-mutton sleeves to Stanley Steamers and hobble skirts, but the Herbert tunes endured. Radio took them up, made him the composer most played on the air. Last week his estate again proved itself to be a gold mine of melody. In Manhattan his daughter Ella Herbert Bartlett let it be known that she had sold Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer the cinema rights to three of his operettas, The Red Mill, Rose of Algeria, Sweethearts. Price: $50,000 each...
...children lived to grow up: Ella Victoria, who as Mrs. Robert Stevens Bartlett lives in Manhattan, and Clifford Victor, who enjoys himself in California...