Word: beulah
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...looked about me and realized that I was getting old and not having any fun. The other men who were in the hat business were not friends of mine. I liked the arts and good music . . . I decided that I would quit." He talked it over with his wife Beulah, and gave his boss a year's notice. In 1947, on his own at last, Roth took his wife and camera to Europe...
Last week Borden admen decided that Elsie had done her job. Having made the Borden name a household word, she will be moved into the back of the admen's stable. In ads henceforth, Elsie, her husband Elmer, daughter Beulah and son Beauregard will play second fiddle to Borden's 210 consumer products. But Elsie will stay on as Borden's trademark, all dolled up in a new garland of daisies...
...trouper since she was five, Cleveland-born Dorothy has waited a long time for people to start looking. As a child, she toured the South in "a kind of package show" with her mother (Ruby Dandridge of the Beulah and Judy Canova radio shows), sometimes singing hymns and "sweet songs," such as The World Is Waiting for the Sunrise, in churches. At 16, she was singing with her sister in Jimmie Lunceford's band at Manhattan's Cotton Club, but nobody paid much attention. In 1942, she got married; now divorced, she has a daughter, Harolyn...
...feature movies. The 18-acre Roach lot, once used for such movie epics as Joan of Arc and Of Mice and Men, now gives houseroom to TV's Amos 'n' Andy, Trouble with Father (featuring Stu Erwin), Racket Squad, Mystery Theater, and a filmed version of Beulah...
Divorced. By Hattie McDaniel, 53, character actress who currently plays radio's "Beulah," the first Negro to win Hollywood's Academy Award (for 1939's best supporting performance, in Gone With the Wind); fourth husband Larry Williams, fiftyish, interior decorator; in Los Angeles, after she testified that their five months together had been marred by "arguing and fussing." Died. Oliver Frederick George Stanley, 54, witty Tory member of the House of Commons since 1924, onetime War Secretary (1940) and Colonial Secretary (1942-45); after long illness; in Reading, England...