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Shadow of Doubt (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) would be a routine program picture were it not for the presence in its cast of Constance Collier, oldtime stage actress. Wearing a white wig, she plays a role which is a weird combination of the late Ella Wendel and all the characters May Robson has contributed to cinema. A recluse in a Manhattan house which she has not left for 20 years, she learns with dismay that her nephew (Ricardo Cortez) loves an actress (Virginia Bruce). Even greater is this grande dame's chagrin when it appears that both nephew and actress...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Cinema, Feb. 25, 1935 | 2/25/1935 | See Source »

Pink-haired, ingratiating Jack Whiting running a musical temperature with a little doll-faced girl named Ella Logan and a long-locked blues-singer named Martha Ray in a number called "If It's Love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theatre: New Plays in Manhattan: Dec. 24, 1934 | 12/24/1934 | See Source »

...able to glean from the house's elaborate furnishings how pious Lumberman Long liked to spend his days. At the foot of a marble and bronze stairway was a red plush and Gobelin tapestry sofa (sold to Harry Jacobs for $410) on which Mr. Long and the late Ella Wilson Long used to sit only at Christmas when they gave presents to the servants. In the French salon beneath an enormous pear-shaped crystal chandelier (sold to Dr. Abraham Sophian for $470), was a walnut and gold-leaf player piano (to Mrs. John K. Jasper; $1,325), a matching...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Lumberman at Home | 10/22/1934 | See Source »

...Chicago, Mrs. Ella Brown, arrested for calling "Fire!" in a crowded theatre, explained that she always summoned her children with that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Oct. 1, 1934 | 10/1/1934 | See Source »

That was in New Orleans in 1920. Next spring Los Angeles police stopped John Cudney's meetings on "Miracle Hill" because lepers were mixing with the crowds. But his Los Angeles sponsor, Mrs. Ella Farley, had already cleaned up with picture postcards of him at 25? each and her brother had cleared $4,000 on the "Miracle Hill" soda pop concession. U. S. postal authorities continued to permit thousands of handkerchiefs to be sent to him for blessing, because he made no charge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Immortality at Oroville | 8/6/1934 | See Source »

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