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...leave his bed for a few minutes each day, listened to symphonies on the radio....Massive Hendrik Willem van Loon (The Story of Mankind) went to work for the Government, boosting defense bonds....Shakespearean Maurice Evans became a full-fledged American citizen....A daughter was born to Radio Songstress Benay Venuta and Armand S. Deutsch....James Aloysius Farley, 53, celebrated his birthday at a Giants-Dodgers ball game: the Dionne Quintuplets, 7, celebrated at home...
Married. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley (Benay Venuta), 27, Broadwayfaring songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); and Armand S. Deutsch Jr., 27, Manhattan adman; she for the second time, he for the first; in Manhattan...
Divorced. Benvenuta Rose Crooke Kelley, 27 (stage name: Benay Venuta), blonde, brass-lunged songstress and comedienne (Anything Goes, Kiss the Boys Good-Bye); by Dr. Kenneth Kelley, 34, Manhattan psychiatrist; in Reno. Grounds: cruelty...
Long Haul tells the story of Nick and Paul Benay, who picked up loads of freight in Oakland, Calif., hauled them to Los Angeles, fighting sleep, thieving agents, collectors who tried to seize their truck because they were behind in their payments. When they were paid $235 (the agent owed them $400), they bought a load of lemons in Los Angeles, rushed them to Oakland where they sold them, during a temporary shortage that boosted the price, for $520. But, as their luck was looking up, a drunken driver smashed into the truck, nearly killed Paul. Driving alone, hauling pipe...
...lineup of musical shows is short but very above par. "Anything Goes" with William Gaxton, Victor Moore and Benay Venuta intoning Cole Porter's lyrical efforts is in its fifty-first week and a fine thing it is. "At Home Abroad" which opened in Boston a bit too early for the college boys is a magnificently staged revue with a glittering cast ranging all the way from Auntie Bea Lillie's mad antics to Paul Haakon's very impressive modern terpsichore, and including the talented toes of Eleanor Powell and the powerful dusky notes of Ethel Waters. "Jubilee," another Boston...