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...respectively, a small boy and a kindly, one-toothed dragon. Fran is blonde Actress Fran Allison, the only human to appear regularly on the show. Even the patrons of Chicago's bars have come to like Kukla's witty, natural dialogue and such supporting puppets as Beulah the Witch and Fletcher the Rabbit, who has trouble keeping his ears...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Stars on Strings | 1/17/1949 | See Source »

...Beulah Louise Overell, now 19, acquitted of the bludgeon-&-blast death of her parents last October, was doing all right financially. The Overell estate, as valued in probate court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: The Solid Flesh | 7/26/1948 | See Source »

...comedy plaster cast; a brat tormenting the neighborhood with trombone practice. But most of it is quite funny, and besides his feeling for slapstick and travesty, Director William Russell knows how to shade in some sharp authenticity. The most redolent blend of realism and caricature is Beulah Bondi as the richest woman in town. Another pleasing sight is Veronica Lake as a charming and capable comedienne. Good line: Veronica brushing off an infatuated ten-year-old with a brisk "I'm spoke...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The New Pictures, May 17, 1948 | 5/17/1948 | See Source »

This week, radio reached the end of another fried-egg hunt. Since her introduction to Fibber McGee's cluttered household in 1944, fat, jolly, colored Beulah, the housemaid, had been impersonated by two thin, tense, white men. Now, at long last, the new Beulah show (CBS, Mon.-Fri., 7 p.m., E.S.T.) had a Beulah that was really fat, jolly and colored: Cinemactress Hattie McDaniel. Everyone agreed that she made an ideal Beulah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Radio: Egg Fry | 12/1/1947 | See Source »

...jammed courtroom you can feel a thought sweeping. What are we doing here? What's the matter with our world . . .? What's the matter with everybody?" Whatever was the matter with the rest of the world, things would presumably look up for Adela, as soon as Beulah and Bud took the stand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Press: Down Adela's Alley | 6/16/1947 | See Source »

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