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...Ella Alexander Boole, indefatigable world president of the W.C.T.U., got the idea that liberated Europeans are giving U.S. troops a Dionysiac welcome, deplored it: "Why, they're drinking wine. Wine! They're offering our boys jugs of wine. They could just as easily have given them fruit juices...
...film gets away with this startling argument against the sanctity of unhappy marriage by playing the whole business as period melodrama (London, 1902). And very good melodrama it is. Ella Raines, Stanley Ridges and Henry Daniell are excellent respectively as Wife No. 2, the calmly cruel sleuth, and a neighbor who blackmails his way to death. Rosalind Ivan is satisfactorily terrifying as the Gorgon-like Wife No. 1. Sloping, suffer ing Charles Laughton has a high old histrionic time and gives the audience one -in one of his best roles since he played a similar mousy murderer in Payment Deferred...
Here's a letter from Ella Logan [Sons O' Fun, Show Time, et al.] to her husband, Writer-Producer Fred Finklehoffe. She's singing to the soldiers in Italy and has been entertaining the soldiers abroad-a total of nine months in the war. I think Ella is the Elsie Janis of this...
...acting is restrained and competent. Ella Raines does an admirably sincere job as Eddie's girl. William Demarest is a typical, but not a stereotyped, top sergeant. And in the part of the "little man" turned hero, Eddie Bracken is in his element...
Bloodhound and Ant. An ordinary woman-or man-might have abandoned this recondite search in despair. But the genuine scholar is indefatigable-a combination of bloodhound and ant. Ella Lonn did not forget the problem of the colonial agent. But before returning to it she produced four other books-all scholarly tomes of the kind which are published obscurely but become indispensable source books for other scholars and for popular writers...