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When Manhattan's eccentric spinster Ella Virginia von Echtzel Wendel died in 1931, she left to five charitable institutions the bulk of the $36,000,000 fortune which old John Gottlieb Wendel had founded in the fur trade and grounded in Manhattan. To small Drew University of Madison, N. J. fell the lamed Wendel mansion on 39th Street and Fifth Avenue, with a high-fenced side yard which was maintained exclusively for Spinster Wendel's toothless, asthmatic poodle Tobey. Last week it was learned that Drew University had leased the site of the Wendel mansion for a long term...
Died. Mrs. Ella Cannon Hill Hogan Flinn, 25, granddaughter of the late J. WT. Cannon (cotton) and cousin of Anne Cannon Reynolds Smith; after a fall from a penthouse balcony while watching her husband, Emory Flinn. Curtiss-Wright Corp. employe, take a photograph of her one-month-old son; in Manhattan...
...shades of Ella Roole faded rapidly yesterday as attractive Mrs. Blsir Moody of Detroit, lightened the quiet background of the CRIMSON office with her youthful appearance. This was no Carrie Nation who came to speak on the evils of liquor; the girl in the brown and tan sports suit had charm, a new avenue of approach, which the recently formed Allied Youth Movement or, as one of her aides described it. Temperance Gone High Hat is using against liquor...
...ELLA WINTER...
Helen Kane grew fatter. Her infantilism grew less appropriate and profitable. Betty Boop remained babyish, alert, and so prosperous that her name has lately become almost as familiar in Manhattan courtrooms as that of Ella Wendel. Last month, Producer Max Fleischer whose firm makes Betty Boop cartoons, distributes them through Paramount, successfully sued a doll manufacturer for imitating Betty Boop. Last week it was Producer Fleischer and Paramount Publix Corp. who were sued by Helen Kane for $250,000 for copying her voice and mannerisms...