Word: ellas
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Pulitzer Prize Playhouse (Fri. 9 p.m., ABC-TV). First of new drama series: You Can't Take It With You, with Charles Coburn and Ella Raines...
Died. Sigmund Gale, 77, who in 1926 founded (with his son Moe) Harlem's Savoy Ballroom, "Home of Happy Feet" to thousands of Harlemites; of a heart attack; in Harlem. At the Savoy, dance-floor innovators worked up the Lindy hop, trucking, the Susie-Q; there, as unknowns, Ella Fitzgerald, Erskine Hawkins, the late "hick Webb found a place to show their talents...
...World on a String (Ella Fitzgerald; Decca). Not so poignant as Mildred Bailey's classic recording, but even this one proves that the Harold Arlen song is still head & shoulders above most of today's limp romantic ballads...
Daisy Discovers America (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., NBC). A musical comedy starring Ella Logan...
From the No. 1 Communist of the U.S., William Z. Foster, and some associates came a birthday posy for old Party Matriarch Mother (Ella Reeve) Bloor. "Your 88th birthday," they reminded her, "sees 850 million in the world who have moved away from the bloody way of imperialism...