The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

The jury foreman, Mrs. Olive Heideman, of rural Elsie, said that a ballot was not even taken until yesterday morning and that the first day of deliberation was spent in going over the evidence.

In 1917, when the first two photographs were taken, Elsie was 16 years old and Frances was 10.

In the early 1980s Elsie and Frances admitted that the photographs were faked using cardboard cutouts of fairies copied from a popular children's book of the time, but Frances maintained that the fifth and final photograph was genuine.

In mid-1917 ten-year-old Frances Griffiths and her mother – both newly arrived in the UK from South Africa – were staying with Frances ' aunt, Elsie Wright's mother, in the village of Cottingley in West Yorkshire ; Elsie was then 16 years old.

Frances was invited to stay with the Wright family during the school summer holiday so that she and Elsie could take more pictures of the fairies.

Because Frances and Elsie insisted that the fairies would not show themselves if others were watching, Elsie's mother was persuaded to visit her sister's for tea, leaving the girls alone.

To protect the girls ' anonymity, Frances and Elsie were called Alice and Iris respectively, and the Wright family was referred to as the Carpenters.

He again brought cameras and photographic plates for Frances and Elsie, but was accompanied by the clairvoyant Geoffrey Hodson.

In 1966, a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who was by then back in England.

Elsie maintained it was a fake, just like all the others, but Frances insisted that it was genuine.

" In the same interview Frances said: " I never even thought of it as being a fraud – it was just Elsie and I having a bit of fun and I can't understand to this day why they were taken in – they wanted to be taken in.

Ratings reached a low of 8 million in February 1973, Pat Phoenix quit as Elsie Tanner, Violet Carson ( Ena Sharples ) was written out for most of the year due to illness, and Doris Speed ( Annie Walker ) took two months ' leave.

The question of who would take over the Rovers Return after Annie Walker's 1983 exit was answered in 1985 when Bet Lynch ( who also mirrored the vulnerability and strength of Elsie Tanner ) was installed as landlady.

The original cast was created by Tony Warren, with the characters of Ena Sharples ( Violet Carson ), Elsie Tanner ( Patricia Phoenix ) and Annie Walker ( Doris Speed ) as central figures.

Orton was born at Causeway Lane Maternity Hospital, Leicester, to William A Orton and Elsie M Orton ( nėe Bentley ).

Gardner was born in the big farming community of Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina, the youngest of seven children ( she had two brothers, Raymond and Melvin, and four sisters, Beatrice, Elsie Mae, Inez, and Myra ).

Richardson was born in Shipley, Yorkshire in 1928, the son of Elsie Evans ( Campion ) and Clarence Albert Richardson, a chemist.

The first of the five photographs, taken by Elsie Wright in 1917, shows Frances Griffiths with the alleged fairies.

Two months later the girls borrowed his camera again, and this time returned with a photograph of Elsie sitting on the lawn holding out her hand to a gnome.

The second of the five photographs, showing Elsie with a winged gnome

Years later Elsie looked at a photograph of herself and Frances taken with Hodson and said: " Look at that, fed up with fairies!

" Both Elsie and Frances later admitted that they " played along " with Hodson " out of mischief ", and that they considered him " a fake ".

Headstrong Ena often clashed with Elsie Tanner, whom she believed espoused a dauntlessly loose set of morals.

Coronation Street's stalwart cast slotted back into the programme alongside the newcomers, examining new relationships between characters of different ages and backgrounds: Eddie Yeats became the Ogdens ' lodger, Gail Potter and Suzie Birchall moved in with Elsie, Mike Baldwin ( Johnny Briggs ) arrived in 1976 as the tough factory boss, and Annie Walker reigned at the Rovers with her trio of staff Bet Lynch, Betty Turpin and Fred Gee.

He married American Elsie Chilton in 1933, the same year he debuted with his revue acts.

* Sechrist, Elsie with foreword by Cayce, Hugh Lynn ( 1974 ).

Elsie, the village, the tavern, and library were featured on an episode of Only in America with Larry the Cable Guy, where Larry announced on a radio show that he was having a hotdog roast that very day to help raise money for Elsie's village.

Wilfred leads Elsie back from her anonymous meeting with the priest and the prisoner and leaves her to reflect on her impending widowhood.

Carruthers then happens by, together with her niece Kate, and notes that the latter heard Elsie talking in her sleep about her secret wedding.

), and he undertakes to instruct Point in this art, following this up with a most effective demonstration on Elsie.

Tearfully, he reprises the song that he had earlier sung with Elsie, The Merryman and his Maid, with wrenching sorrow.

In the original conception, these characters echoed Elsie, with an " Oh, Leonard " solo for Kate, and cries to " Come thou to her side, and claim her as thy loving bride " sung along with Elsie.

Elsie begs for his mercy, to free her to go to her love, " Leonard ", but he says that his heart is like a " massive rock " and claims her as his bride.

She winds up keeping the secret for a number of reasons: she is embarrassed, Elsie ( Peter's grandmother ) has a heart condition, and she quickly comes to love being a part of Peter's big and loving family.

The little dancing men are at the heart of a mystery which seems to be driving his young wife Elsie to distraction.

The Cottingley Fairies appear in a series of five photographs taken by Elsie Wright and Frances Griffiths, two young cousins who lived in Cottingley, near Bradford in England.

Both girls married and lived abroad for a time after they grew up, yet the photographs continued to hold the public imagination ; in 1966 a reporter from the Daily Express newspaper traced Elsie, who had by then returned to the UK.

Rosalind Elsie Franklin ( 25 July 1920 – 16 April 1958 ) was a British biophysicist and X-ray crystallographer who made critical contributions to the understanding of the fine molecular structures of DNA, RNA, viruses, coal, and graphite.

Blood, Sweat & Tears donates money through its " Elsie Monica Colomby " music scholarship fund to deserving schools and students who need help in prolonging their musical education, such as the victims of Hurricane Katrina.

Point, who intends to marry Elsie someday, is assured that the groom will be beheaded directly after the ceremony.

Sergeant Meryll says that Elsie, the girl who fainted at the execution, and who has been placed in Meryll's charge, has recovered, but that her illness gave Dame Carruthers an excuse to take up quarters in his house while she nursed the girl.

" A man who would woo a fair maid " ( Fairfax, Elsie, Phœbe )

A longer-staying unusual visitor was " Elsie " the Lesser Crested Tern, who visited the Farnes every summer from 1984 to 1997 ; during that period, she ( paired with a male Sandwich Tern ) raised several hybrid chicks, and attracted several thousand birders keen to see this species in Britain.

His sisters Elsie and Doris Waters were well-known comediennes who usually performed as " Gert and Daisy ".

; Belle Blackwell: Teacher of the Sunday school Rhoda attends who gives Rhoda a copy of Elsie Dinsmore.

The family consists of Dr. Bill Platypus ( voiced by Bill Barker ), who speaks with a Scottish accent, his wife Elsie Jean Platypus ( voiced by Bill Barker ) and their daughter Ornithorhynchus Anatinus ( the Latin scientific name for a platypus ) or Ana Platypus ( voiced by Carole Muller Switala ) as she is commonly known.

* Draper Daniels, native, revived local " Morris Chronicle " weekly newspaper as a summer project, became a travelling salesman for Vick's and then an advertising executive who invented the " Jolly Green Giant ", " Marlboro Man " campaign and twin calves of Borden's Elsie cow, as well as promoting the idea of being able to travel coast to coast by train without changing coaches, illustrating in contrast that hogs could do it but not people.

The shopping centre was opened by Patricia Phoenix, who played Elsie Tanner in ITV's Coronation Street.

In May 2010, The Virginian-Pilot published two articles on Lacks, HeLa, and her family, which mentions that the Morehouse School of Medicine has donated the money for Henrietta's grave as well as her daughter Elsie, who died in 1955, to finally have headstones.

Weinman ( who had studied under Augustus Saint-Gaudens ) won a 1915 competition against two other artists for the design job, and is thought to have modeled his version of Liberty on Elsie Kachel Stevens, wife of noted poet Wallace Stevens.

Marino married the rich American Mary Elsie Moore ; they were the parents of Don Alessandro Torlonia, 5th Prince di Civitella-Cesi, who married the Infanta Beatriz of Spain, the daughter of King Alfonso XIII — and of Donna Marina Torlonia di Civitella-Cesi, the wife of American tennis player Francis Xavier Shields and grandmother of the American actress Brooke Shields.

It was given in 1997 by one of the language's last speakers, Ms. Elsie Vaalbooi of Rietfontein, who has since died.

In May 1914, when James Deering, the International Harvester heir, and his travelling companion and long-term artistic advisor Paul Chalfin, a decorative painter and interior decorator who once worked for Elsie de Wolfe, were lent one of the smaller casinas at La Pietra, Acton commissioned Suarez to take them around and show them some villas they would not otherwise have had access to.

She is one of the two daughters of Raymond Davy Hunter, vice president of Harper Fuel Oil on Long Island, and Elsie Doying Hunter, a piano teacher who taught at the Westport School of Music and accompanied the Saugatuck Congregational Church choir.

They had two children, Theodore, who lives in Bethesda, Maryland, and Elsie Proxmire Zwerner, of Scottsdale, Arizona.