Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Elsa Maxwell's 1939 hit, "Hotel for Women," all the Moviegoer can say in that it fails to achieve the dramatic intensity of its co-feature...
...sold is a bit over-used, and parts of the show are saccharine sweet. But, to counterbalance that, there are some excellent characterizations. Edmund Gwenn has done a fine performance as the proprietor of a traveling show and shop. Donald Crisp is conventional but natural as the father, Elsa Lanchester quite good as the mother, but Nigel Bruce a bit under par as the Lord of the Manor and purchaser of Lassie...
...niece of the King of Sweden, Mrs. Hugo Cedergren, formerly Countess Elsa Bernadotte, will be the guest of Harvard University this afternoon. She will be received by Professor George H. Chase, Dean of the University and David M. Little, Master of Adams House...
...made a white-tulle-and-camellia debut at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria. In the receiving line, she accompanied herself by humming They're Either Too Young Or Too Old, did much of her handshaking with such oldsters as Morton Downey, Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, Westbrook Pegler, Elsa Maxwell, William Bullitt...
...Atlantic crossings. One night he heard Tito Schipa sing an aria and decided to be an opera singer. By 1936 he wangled an au dition at the Metropolitan, but when he discovered the small size of his starting salary, he gave in to an offer to appear in the Elsa Maxwell-Leonard Sillman Who's Who. Who's Who did not turn out to be Sonny. He played another musical, began singing in nightclubs like Manhattan's Glass Hat, Famous Door, and Beachcomber. He might still be 1'ving on his larynx if a friend...