Word: venuta
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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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...
...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...