Word: estella
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...swells, blacksmiths, eccentric old ladies, orphans with mysterious benefactors and gypsy servant girls, animated by coincidence and honeycombed with nonsense, its only similarity to a salable cinema narrative is a banal happy ending. Its main plot line, concerning the love of a young man, Pip, for an arrogant debutante, Estella, is confused by being intermittently subordinated to a mystery story...
...Stuart Walker, the task of preserving the vitality of Great Expectations rests principally on the cast. Most memorable contributions to a gallery of 19th Century human oddities are made by Henry Hull, as monkey-faced Magwitch; Florence Reed, as monstrous old Miss Havisham; Jane Wyatt as cold-hearted Estella. Good shot: Magwitch eating cold porkpie in a graveyard...
...tell one twin from another they pinned duplicate blue ribbons on the pair. From the 3-year-old class they waved Marylyn and Carolyn Cook, of Warsaw, out of line; from the 4-year-olds Maurice and Richard Schinbeckler, of Columbia City, Ind. The last ribbons went to Mrs. Estella Dille and Mrs. Rosella Lewallen, 79, of Akron and Mentone, Ind. When the judging was over the 240 sets of twins elected as counselors John J. and Miles W. O'Brien, whose South Bend Lathe Works proudly uses the cable address: TWINS...
...keys around his neck and his own long, crinkly beard. Pilgrim of Determination is Esther Jones, a dry-cleaner; Millionaire is Hubert Jones, an Atlanta barber; Devil is George A. Pullum, a railway postal clerk. Reader or interpreter, who also helps guide the action of the play, has been Estella Z. Wright, 20-year-old Negro stenographer, soon to join the staff of Pittsburgh's Negro Courier. None of the actors in Heaven Bound receives wages. The first production cost $155, realized a fat profit for Big Bethel's trustee fund with admissions at 25?. Not very many...
Died. Lieutenant-General Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja. Marques De Estella, 60, whilom Dictator of Spain; at Paris; of an embolism...