Word: ellas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
...Widow King's five children, Lee King (no descendants), Richard King Jr., Mrs. Alice King Kleberg, Mrs. Ella King Welton, and Mrs. Nettie King Atwood are all now dead. The property went to the Klebergs, to Richard King III, who got 150,000 acres, to the Atwoods, who got 131,000 (now being operated by the trustees of the estate), and to the Welton heir, who sold out to Bob Kleberg. Richard King III now operates his ranch independently of the King Ranch Corp...
...pair of blue garters from Mrs. Ella Whagy of New York...