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...Ella Reeve ("Mother") Bloor, an idealist rebel. She came from a fine old colonial family. When she was 14, she demanded that her name be taken off the rolls of the Presbyterian Church in Bridgeton, N.J., because she did not think it fair for some people to be destined for hell and others for heaven. She was, successively, a suffragette, Prohibitionist, Ethical Culturist, Single Taxer, a partisan of William Jennings Bryan, Eugene Debs and Upton Sinclair. When the Russian Revolution came along, she found the spiritual home for which she had searched so long...
...Ella Mason, chatty hostess of a daytime food quiz show on Manhattan's WHN (which this week changes its name to WMGM-in honor of affiliated Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer), has solved the problem of how to prevent audiences from prompting quiz contestants. Her contestants will wear earmuffs of sequins, poppies and plumes...
...television will bring back vaudeville. Vaudeville's never died." But it had changed a lot. Said Gus Van: "Years ago, you used to sit for an hour in the theater and make yourself up. Now a fellow with nice soft hands comes along and does it for you." Ella Logan was not too enthusiastic: "People tell me I didn't look bad. But usually, all the girls end up looking like Wallace Beery." The exception was 50-year-old Bea Lillie, who appeared on the television screen to be both young and beautiful. Miss Lillie's delicate...
...courier between headquarters in New York City and the party's Washington "apparatus," a group of Communists who occupied key observation posts in the U.S. Government. The apparatus was organized, said Chambers, by Harold Ware, a son of the Communist Party's 86-year-old veteran, Ella Reeve Bloor, and took its orders from "the head of the whole underground U.S. Communist Party"-J. Peters...
Last week, Conductor Dorati had more cause than usual to kick the furniture. He had been brought to Manhattan to be music director of a new "World's Fair of Music." A 70-piece orchestra, plus such big name help as Benny Goodman and Ella Fitzgerald, Ballet Dancers Alicia Markova and Anton Dolin, had been signed up to lure lookers and listeners into Grand Central Palace...