Stone was featured in an article in Time magazine on November 13, 1939, titled, "Little Girl Blue", in connection with a performance by the New Friends of Music. She is described asa small, plump, snub-nosed young woman who booped mightily through the brass coils of a big French horn. When she had finished the horn part of Mozart's Quintet in E flat Major, with dignity she dumped the saliva from her horn, rose and went home to practice for this week's concert.The article goes on, calling her "the best woman French horn player in the world", and describing her lifestyle thus:Today, 22-year-old, dark-haired Ellen Stone lives with her horn in a little bare-floored room off Manhattan's musical 57th Street. For amusement she goes to the movies, reads "great sociological novels like The Grapes of Wrath." But her big thrills come when her boy friends (mostly fellow horn players) ask her out for an evening of horn duets and trios.Her name continues to appear with some frequency in The New York Times in connection with performances of the New Friends of Music well into 1943.Downes, Olin, "New Friends Open Fourth Year Here". The New York Times, October 30, 1939, p. 13."Women are Soloists as Barzin Conducts". The New York Times, March 16, 1943, p. 15.
