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...million dollars last year to educate 3,112 students. Last week the United Negro College Fund Campaign for only $1,500,000 to be shared among 27 U.S. Negro colleges, got under way at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel. Keynoter was Fisk University's* white President Thomas Elsa Jones. Heading the drive are John D. Rockefeller Jr., Lord & Taylor's President Walter Hoving, the Chase National Bank's Board Chairman Winthrop Williams Aldrich...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: For Negro Colleges | 5/15/1944 | See Source »

Written by Elsa Shelley with seriousness of purpose and not just an eye on the box-office, "Pick-Up Girl" controls the natural impulse to become lurid and is carefully handled...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: PLAYGOER | 4/28/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 4/14/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: MOVIEGOER | 2/18/1944 | See Source »

...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...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Swedish Countess Guest Here | 2/15/1944 | See Source »

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