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...Frustration. Two big things happened in 1924-25. Hughes Sr. suddenly died, and Howard got married, at a swank wedding in Houston, to Ella Rice (of the same family that founded Rice Institute). Four years later, they were divorced. Hughes was already in Hollywood, bringing starlets -home in droves. Ella got a million dollar settlement. Hughes now resents any mention of his marriage; he would rather be regarded as the world's most ineligible bachelor. People who know him well say firmly that he will never marry again...
When she patters to the center of a stage, smooths down her dress, poises her small hands like a tiny coffee-colored ballerina, and starts out on a husky, whispery ballad, she seems only a step away from being a Maxine Sullivan or an Ella Fitzgerald. In the records she has made for Columbia, the words sound like jived-up Mother Goose. Sample...
Toni got her rhythm naturally. Her mother was once in the Cotton Club chorus, has always wanted her kids in show business. And her father, a redcap at Los Angeles' Union Station, owns a roomful of hot records-Ella Fitzgerald, Duke Ellington, Louis Jordan. "Daddy likes to riff," says Toni sternly. "'Sometimes he keeps us awake all night." But two years ago, Toni began riffing...
...back door of the hall; Sigrid Gurie presented a painting signed "Sigrid" (after all, Van Gogh signed his "Vincent"); Mrs. William Powell, whose husband may currently be seen in Life with Father, offered a still life prominently featuring a copy of the book-and signed the picture "Mousie"; Ella Raines showed a circus scene and signed her middle name, "Fatima"; Elizabeth Taylor titled her self-sculpture "Mona Lizzie...
...much standard B-picture intrigue about the diary, and it is hard to work up a healthy interest in either the story or the Senator. You just sit around and wait for another irrelevant gag, and this soon becomes a tiresome business in spite of the charming pretences of Ella Raines and Arleen Whelan. There is no doubt that election politics is a fine field for satire, but here the satire is neither gay nor is it contained within the plot...