Word: ellas
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...momentarily daunted. Meeting in annual convention in Rochester, N. Y., last week, during World War II, 1,700 temperate Christian delegates heard President Ida B. Wise Smith proclaim that "there is no doubt prohibition will return-the only question is when." The W.C.T.U. wants prohibition or nothing. Says Mrs. Ella Boole, world president of W.C.T.U.: "Moderation points the way to excessive indulgence. Total abstinence closes the door. We have always been opposed to moderation...
CHICAGO, Ill., Oct. 13--It's a breeze to the Lee of the Windy City today for the Crimson leather luggers if the Sargeant Gards-ella and the Coleman from the Burry Ayres of Lake Michigan. Letts hope that the Devine Maroons are Spreyer than last season or pull some Lowry Helden ball tricks Elser score will be a Row of Zeros...
...cuties are still beyond cavil. For the rest, the 1939 Scandals, like its predecessors, is a swiftly paced professional amateur hour occasionally bright, often dirty, sometimes painfully in need of a gong. There is one good song, Are You Having Any Fun?, energetically shouted by 52nd Street's Scotcha Ella Logan; one big, loud ensemble, hymning Tin Pan Alley; Tapper Ann Miller, who has some things Tapper Eleanor Powell has not; and a shimmy-shake called the Mexiconga, which will not be a successor to Producer White's Black Bottom. Sorriest Scandal: John L. Lewis picketing a bedded couple...
...vocal of the month: Ella Fitzgerald's Stairway to the Stars (Decca...
...months prior to the opening, more than 100 actors, including such local celebrities as Octogenarian Ella H. Goodrich, who does Whistler's Mother, and ebony-skinned Janitor Felix Nelson (Vedder's The African Sentinel), rehearse their tableaux as religiously as any Oberammergau Passion Player. This year, with the Assistance League of nearby Santa Ana offering $200 in art prizes, and the buildup of the local Chamber of Commerce corralling 1,500 spectators into every performance, The Festival of Arts at last got on a paying basis. Jubilant Director Ropp hoped to net $4,000, looked forward...