Other personalities who were attracted by his talks were American poets Harriet Monroe and Ella Wheeler Wilcox ; Dr. Lewis G. Janes, president of Brooklyn Ethical Association ; Sara C. Bull, wife of Ole Bull, the Norwegian violinist ; Sarah Bernhardt, the French actress and Madame Emma Calvé, the French opera singer.

* " Over the Banister ," 19th-century melody adapted by Conrad Salinger, lyrics from the 1888 poem " Over the Banisters " by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, adapted by Roger Edens ( 1944 ), performed by Judy Garland.

* Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ' Momus, God of Laughter ': Poem at www. americanpoems. com

Johnstown is the birthplace of the poet and mystic Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

He famously composed rather suggestive doggerel about Ella Wheeler Wilcox as lyrics to the opening bars of Alexandre Luigini's Ballet égyptien.

* " Laugh And The World Laughs With You " w. Ella Wheeler Wilcox m. Louis Gottschalk

* Ella Wheeler Wilcox, poet

* Ella Wheeler Wilcox, ( 1850 – 1919 ), American poet

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Ella Wheeler Wilcox ( November 5, 1850October 30, 1919 ) was an American author and poet.

Contributors to a 360-page book published by Roycrofters and titled In Memoriam: Elbert and Alice Hubbard included such luminaries as meat-packing magnate J. Ogden Armour, business theorist and Babson College founder Roger Babson, botanist and horticulturalist Luther Burbank, seed-company founder W. Atlee Burpee, ketchup magnate Henry J. Heinz, National Park Service founder Franklin Knight Lane, success writer Orison Swett Marden, inventor of the modern comic strip Richard F. Outcault, poet James Whitcomb Riley, Nobel Peace Prize recipient Elihu Root, evangelist Billy Sunday, political leader Booker T. Washington, and poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox.

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Mavericks: The Lives and Battles of Montana's Political Legends ( 2003 ), chapters on Joseph K. Toole, Ella Knowles, Joseph M. Dixon, Thomas Walsh, Jeannette Rankin, Burton K. Wheeler, James E. Murray, Mike Mansfield, and Lee Metcalf

Frankie was fairly glutted with ideas, as he had hinted upon his arrival: `` It's really tremendous when you think Ella Fitzgerald is coming from Australia.

Charles Hardin Holley was born on September 7, 1936, in Lubbock, Texas, to Lawrence Odell and Ella Pauline ( Drake ) Holley.

" Ella for her grandmother Ellen, and Lorena because it was the most fashionable name of the day for girls.

Lamorna was also the home of the jeweller Ella Naper and her husband, the painter Charles, who built Trewoofe house there.

These programs resembled the " sympathetic " yet contradictory film Dances With Wolves of 1990, in which, according to Ella Shohat and Robert Stam, the narrative choice was to relate the Lakota story as told through a Euro-American voice, for wider impact among a general audience.

In her 60-year-long career, Peggy was the recipient of three Grammy Awards ( including the Lifetime Achievement Award ), an Academy Award nomination, The American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers ( ASCAP ) Award, the President's Award, the Ella Award for Lifetime Achievement, and the Living Legacy Award from the Women's International Center.

Robert Siodmak was considered an actor's director, discovering Burt Lancaster and skillfully directing actresses such as Ava Gardner, Olivia de Havilland, Dorothy McGuire, Yvonne de Carlo, Barbara Stanwyck and Ella Raines.

The halftime show was a " Salute to Louis Armstrong " featuring jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald, actress and singer Carol Channing, trumpeter Al Hirt and the U. S. Marine Corps Drill Team.

Its opening and closing lament, " The Ballad of Mackie Messer ", was written just before the Berlin premiere, when actor Harald Paulsen ( Macheath ) threatened to quit if his character did not receive an introduction ; this creative emergency resulted in what would become the work's most popular song, later translated into English by Marc Blitzstein as " Mack the Knife " and now a jazz standard that Louis Armstrong, Bobby Darin, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Robbie Williams, Ray Quinn and countless others have all covered.

Thirty-three women enrolled among the first class in 1900, and Ella S. Wilcoxen was the first to receive a degree, in 1901.

Chick Webb died on June 16, 1939, and his band was renamed " Ella and her Famous Orchestra " with Ella taking on the role of nominal bandleader.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Cole Porter Songbook, released in 1956, was the first of eight multi-album Songbook sets Fitzgerald would record for Verve at irregular intervals from 1956 to 1964.

Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Duke Ellington Songbook was the only Songbook on which the composer she interpreted played with her.

A later collection devoted to a single composer was released during her time with Pablo Records, Ella Abraça Jobim, featuring the songs of Antonio Carlos Jobim.

Ella in London recorded live in 1974 with pianist Tommy Flanagan, guitarist Joe Pass, bassist Keter Betts and drummer Bobby Durham, was considered by many to be some of her best work.

In 2007, We All Love Ella, was released, a tribute album recorded for the 90th anniversary of Fitzgerald's birth.

Ella Fitzgerald, who performed later, was able to draw extensively on popular music in her singing.

Strunk was born and reared in Cincinnati, Ohio, the eldest of four surviving children of William and Ella Garretson Strunk.

Clive Sinclair was born to George William Carter Sinclair ( known as Bill ) and Thora Edith Ella Marles in 1940 near Richmond, then in Surrey.

The popularity of many of the major bands was amplified by star vocalists, such as Frank Sinatra with Tommy Dorsey, Helen O ' Connell and Bob Eberly with Jimmy Dorsey, Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb, Billie Holiday and Jimmy Rushing with Count Basie, Dick Haymes and Helen Forrest with Harry James, Doris Day with Les Brown, Toni Arden and Ken Curtis with Shep Fields and Peggy Lee with Benny Goodman.

* Luns ' spouse Baroness Lia van Heemstra was a niece of baroness Ella van Heemstra, the mother of actress Audrey Hepburn.

Ella Watson was lynched by wealthy ranchers in 1889 for cattle rustling.

Donat was twice married, first to Ella Annesley Voysey ( 1929 – 1946 ), with whom he had three children, and subsequently to British actress Renée Asherson ( 1953 – 1958 ).

It was during this time that Lauper began listening to artists such as Judy Garland, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald and the Beatles.

* Ella Ewing -- World's tallest woman ( in her era ), born in La Grange, 1872.

* Ella Knowles, suffragist, lawyer and politician ; born in Northwood ( 1860 )

Movie actress Ella Raines was born in Snoqualmie Falls, a mill town across the Snoqualmie River that is now part of Snoqualmie, on 6 August 1920.

He was the youngest of three boys born to Ella ( née Zotnickaita ) and Ber Skikne, a Lithuanian Jewish family in the town of Joniškis, Lithuania.

Dole was born Mary Elizabeth Alexander Hanford in Salisbury, North Carolina, to Mary Ella ( née Cathey ; 1901 – 2004 ) and John Van Hanford ( 1893 – 1978 ).

Payne was born in Detroit, Michigan and grew up listening to different jazz singers, such as Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday.

Herzberg was born in Hamburg, Germany on December 25, 1904 to Albin H. Herzberg and Ella Biber.

They have since had three children: Jett ( April 13, 1992-January, 2, 2009 ), Ella Bleu ( born April 3, 2000 ) and Benjamin Hunter Kaleo ( born November 23, 2010 ).

Caperton and his first wife, Ella Dee Caperton ( born Ella Kessel, Miss West Virginia 1964 ) divorced in 1990 during his first term, and she later unsuccessfully ran in the election for state treasurer.

His older brothers and sister were born in New Orleans, to Ella Blackman, and Moskad Ali.

There were several children born to this union, and while two of the older sons moved to Galveston, TX, Ella moved to the Bronx, NY with her remaining children, and her sister Fanny.

Bart Howard ( born Howard Joseph Gustafson ; June 1, 1915 — February 21, 2004 ) was the composer and writer of the famous jazz standard " Fly Me To The Moon ", which has been performed by singers ( among others ) Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Nancy Wilson, Della Reese, Diana Krall, June Christy and Astrud Gilberto.

Atkinson was born to Eric Atkinson and Ella May, Anglican farmers in the town of Consett.

Ella Rose Tambussi was born in Windsor Locks, Connecticut, to Italian immigrant parents Maria ( née Oliva ) and Giacomo Tambussi, a mill worker.

Gerald Nye ( whose first name was pronounced with a hard " G "), was born in Hortonville, Wisconsin to Irwin Raymond Nye and Phoebe Ella Nye ( née Prentice ).

Three more children were born there: Clair Irwin, Donald Oscar, and Marjorie Ella.

Ella Baker was born in Norfolk, Virginia, and raised by Georgiana and Blake Baker.

Lucey was born in La Crosse, Wisconsin on March 21, 1918, the son of Gregory and Ella Lucey.

The fourth of ten children, John O ' Hara was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan, to John and Ella ( née Thornton ) O ' Hara.