Word: elsas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Prepared. In New Albany, Ind., Head Librarian Elsa Strassweg resigned herself to the current rash of book thefts: the Bible and the Boy Scout Handbook...
...good deal of care and talent have been lavished on the Garden. Aside from Principals O'Brien and Stockwell, who handle their tears and tantrums with equal facility, there are good performances by Herbert Marshall, Elsa Lanchester as a chuckleheaded Yorkshire maid, and Reginald Owen as a grumpy old gardener...
With sweet smiles and cold determination, the sisters move in on and eventually take possession of the converted-stable studio of a dithery painter (Elsa Lan-chester). They also wheedle the deed to a valuable piece of real estate from a notorious gangster (Thomas Gomez), and almost drive a songwriting neighbor (Hugh Marlowe) out of his mind before he capitulates. In their childlike faith, they brush aside every staggering obstacle in their path. When things look really tough, they say a prayer to St. Jude, patron of the impossible...
...crowded Paris race track, newlywed Rita Hayworth tottered in a faint and, almost before her friend Elsa Maxwell could whisk her out of the crowds, excitable French newspapers twittered a diagnosis: expectant motherhood. Rita and her Prince Aly Khan offered no diagnosis...
...past three months, a little procession has arrived punctually at 6:30 p.m. at RCA Victor's midtown Manhattan recording studios. The routine never varies. The youngest, Mlle. Denise Restout, goes straight to the harpsichord, yanks open her tool kit, and starts tuning. The huskiest, Mlle. Elsa Schunicke, carries the pillows and the hamper, loaded with sandwiches, a vacuum jug of coffee, and a supply of specially blended horehound drops. Then, her hands folded before her, and her craggy features blissfully composed, Mme. Wanda Landowska herself floats in like a tiny wraith, nods her greetings and disappears into...