Word: ella
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...yellow and pink garden dress, picture hat and orange and magenta feather boa, Puerto Rico pursued a hapless, grinning amateur into the wings. Then he laid his pistol down. Out onto the stage stepped one of the most famed alumnae of the Apollo amateur hour: bosomy, nimble-voiced Ella Fitzgerald...
Palm Fronds & Spotlight. Apollo patrons saw Ella for the first time 17 years ago. Billed as a dancer in the amateur show, she looked shyly down at her spindly legs, stammered out that she had changed her mind, would like to sing instead. The audience guffawed. But by the time 15-year-old Ella had slid smoothly into the second chorus of Judy they were shouting encouragement. Three encores later, she walked off the stage with the $25 first prize. No other contestant had come even close...
Under the spoon-feeding of Cartoonist Charlie Plumb, Ella Cinders had come a long way in 25 years with United Features Syndicate. From a childhood of downtrodden poverty, homely Ella had grown up into a curly-locked career girl who had married tall & handsome Bentley Patches six years ago. The wedding has turned out to be a great mistake, at least to Comic Stripper Plumb and his scriptwriter, Fred Fox. They wanted to get Ella back on the Cinderella beam and there was no place for a husband in that kind of strip...
This week, Ella's journalistic parents solve the problem: husband Patches is coldly killed off in a plane crash. Lamented Cartoonist Plumb: "I really hated to see Patches get killed, but I had to dispose of him some...
Above all, the script is craftsmanlike, and director Ella Gerber has given it a craftsmanlike production. Stewart Chancy's set is sturdily Elizabethan, and is well suited to the play, Playwrights Berney and Richardson have not written poetry, but a piece of good prose like "Design for a Stained Glass Window" is always welcome...