Word: ellas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Divorced. By Ella Logan, 41, Scottish-born Broadway songstress (Finian's Rainbow), great friend of ex-New York City Mayor William O'Dwyer: Fred Finkel-hoffe, 44, Hollywood and Broadway producer-writer; after twelve years of marriage, no children; in Santa Monica, Calif...
...jazz age has its echoes all over the world. In Japan, singers eagerly mimic Ella Fitzgerald while dancers gyrate in the "Fallaway Twist" and the "Natural Hover Whisk." Scandinavia has a local growth of "cool" jazz, and France has an unquenchable thirst for le jazz hot. In Britain, shops are doing brisk business in the "GENUINE 'Mr. B.' Shirt with its wide roll collar as worn by the Famous American Singing Star BILLY ECKSTINE." The Communists are paying their own kind of compliment: in the East German town of Aue last week, Red police jailed members...
...competition to keep him interested. Big bands continue to get off the ground (Count Basie, Woody Herman's "Third Herd," Duke Ellington). The nation is laced with touring jazz packages, e.g., "Jazz at the Philharmonic," with stars such as Pianist Oscar Peterson, Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie and Singer Ella Fitzgerald. Serious composers continue to find stimulation in jazz; this month will see the U.S. premiere of a work by Swiss Composer Rolf Liebermann, a kind of concerto grosso in which the Sauter-Finegan band will act as jazz concertino to the Chicago Symphony's long-haired tutti...
...Milwaukee, suing for divorce, Adolph Urfer said that he did not think his wife Ella was in the courtroom, then when she was pointed out to him, explained that they had been separated since 1938 and he did not recognize...
...20th anniversary "push" with the Crosby package, surrounded by a publicity campaign to recall some of its pioneering trade ventures (e.g., pop albums, children's records, original-cast recordings of Broadway shows). Among other Decca anniversary releases are LPs by Guy Lombardo, the Mills Brothers, Fred Waring, Ella Fitzgerald...