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Rosa Thomas, Carroll County EHC & Busy Bees EHC (Carroll County)
Joined by Ruth Hall & Barbara Summers, Ozark District Associate Directors.
American postcard by Coral-Lee, Rancho Cordova, CA, no. Personality # 14, 1978, no. C32305. Photo: Douglas Kirkland / Contact. Caption: George Burns - Eighty-two year old star of "Oh God" still has it all together after a lifetime of success on stage and screen. An immortal still active on this earth! October, 1975.
George Burns (1896-1996) was an American actor, comedian, singer, and published author. He formed a comedy duo with his wife Gracie Allen and typically played the straight man to her zany roles. At the age of 79, Burns won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for The Sunshine Boys (1975) and then played the title role in Oh, God! (1977). The remarkably active, amiable old comedian continued performing until his 90s.
George Burns was born Nathan Birnbaum in 1896 in New York City. He was the ninth of 12 children and his family nicknamed him "Nattie". His father was Eliezer 'Louis' Birnbaum, a coat presser who also was a substitute cantor at a local synagogue. His mother was Hadassah "Dorah" Bluth, a homemaker. Both parents were Jewish immigrants, originally from the small town of Kolbuszowa in Austrian Galicia (currently part of Poland). Kolbuszowa had a large Jewish population until World War II when the German occupation forces in Poland relocated the local Jews to a ghetto in Rzeszów. In 1903, Louis Birnbaum caught influenza and died. Orphaned when 7-year-old, Burns had to work to support his family. He shined shoes, ran errands, sold newspapers, and worked as a syrup maker in a local candy shop. Burns liked to sing while working and practised singing harmony with three co-workers. They were discovered by letter carrier Lou Farley, who gave them the idea to perform singing in exchange for payment. The four children soon started performing as the "Pee-Wee Quartet", singing in brothels, ferryboats, saloons, and street corners. They put their hats down for donations from their audience, though their audience was not always generous. In Burns' words: "Sometimes the customers threw something in the hats. Sometimes they took something out of the hats. Sometimes they took the hats." Burns started smoking cigars around 1910, when 14-years-old. It became a lifelong habit for him. Burns' performing career was briefly interrupted in 1917 when he was drafted for service in World I. He eventually failed his physical exams, due to his poor eyesight. By the early 1920s, he adopted the stage name "George Burns", though he told several stories of why he chose the name. He supposedly named himself after then-famous baseball player George Henry Burns, or another famous baseball player George Joseph Burns. In another version, he named himself after his brother Izzy "George" Birnbaum and took the last name "Burns" in honour of the Burns Brothers Coal Company.
George Burns performed dance routines with various female partners until he eventually married his partner Gracie Allen in 1926. Burns and Allen began their career in motion pictures with a series of comic short films in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Their debut was the short comedy Lambchops (Murray Roth, 1929), which was distributed by Vitaphone. The film simply recorded one of Burns and Allen's comedy routines from Vaudeville. Burns made his feature film debut in a supporting role in the musical comedy The Big Broadcast (Frank Tuttle, 1932) with Bing Crosby. In International House (A. Edward Sutherland, 1933) and Six of a Kind (Leo McCarey, 1934) they appeared with W.C. Fields. Burns appeared regularly in films throughout the 1930s, with his last film role for several years in the musical Honolulu (Edward Buzzell, 1939) starring Eleanor Powell. Burns was reportedly considered for a leading role in Road to Singapore (Victor Schertzinger, 1940), but the studio replaced him with Bob Hope. Burns and Allen started appearing as comic relief for a radio show featuring bandleader Guy Lombardo. By February 1932, they received their own sketch comedy radio show. The couple portrayed younger singles until the show was retooled in 1941 and started featuring them as a married couple. By the fall of 1941, the show had evolved into a situational comedy about married life. Burns and Allen's supporting cast included notable voice actors Mel Blanc, Bea Benaderet, and Hal March. The radio show finally ended in 1949, reworked into the popular television show The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show (1950-1958). Allen would typically play the "illogical" housewife, while Burns played the straight man and broke the fourth wall to speak to the audience. The couple formed the production company McCadden Corporation to help produce the show. Gracie Allen developed heart problems during the 1950s, and by the late 1950s was unable to put up the energy needed for the show. She fully retired in 1958. The show was briefly retooled to "The George Burns Show" (1958-1959), but Burns' comedy style was not as popular as that of his wife. The new show was cancelled due to low ratings.
Following Allen's death in 1964, George Burns attempted a television comeback by creating the sitcom Wendy and Me (1964-1965) about the life of a younger married couple. The lead roles were reserved for Ron Harper and Connie Stevens, while Burns had a supporting role as their landlord. He also performed as the show's narrator. As a television producer, Burns produced the military comedy No Time for Sergeants, and the sitcom Mona McCluskey. As an actor, he mostly appeared in theatres and nightclubs. Burns had a career comeback with the comedy The Sunshine Boys (Herbert Ross, 1975), his first film appearance since World War II. He played faded vaudevillian Al Lewis, who has a difficult relationship with his former partner Willy Clark (played by Walter Matthau). The role was met with critical success, and Burns won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. At age 80, Burns was the oldest Oscar winner at the time. His record was broken by Jessica Tandy in 1989. Burns had his greatest film success playing God in the comedy Oh, God! (Carl Reiner, 1977). The film brought in 51 million dollars at the domestic box office and was one of the greatest hits of 1977. Burns returned to the role in the sequels Oh, God! Book II (Gilbert Cates, 1980) and Oh, God! You Devil (Paul Bogart, 1984). He had a double role as both God and the Devil in the last film. Burns had several other film roles until the 1990s. His most notable films in this period were the musical comedy Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Michael Schultz, 1978), the comedy Just You and Me, Kid (Leonard Stern, 1979) opposite Brooke Shields, the caper Going in Style (Martin Brest, 1979) with Art Carney and Lee Strasberg, and the fantasy-comedy 18 Again! (Paul Flaherty, 1988). The latter featured him as a grandfather who changes souls with his grandson (Charlie Schlatter). Burns' last film role was a bit part in the mystery film Radioland Murders (Mel Smith, 1994), which was a box office flop. In July 1994, Burns fell in his bathtub and underwent surgery to remove fluid in his skull. He survived, but his health never fully recovered. He was forced to retire from acting and stand-up comedy. On 20 January 20 1996, Burns celebrated his 100th birthday, but was in poor health and had to cancel a pre-arranged comeback performance. In March 1996, he suffered from cardiac arrest and died in Beverley Hills. He was buried in Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery, Glendale, next to Gracie Allen. George and Gracie adopted two children as infants: Sandra Burns (1934) and Ronnie Burns (1935).
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Golden Homemakers 100 Ideas to Beautify Your Home, Gudenian Rockail & Mayer, Marshall Cavendish, London, 1972.
A charity quilt featuring 30 quilt blocks made by members of the Wayne County Extension Homemakers will begin its journey on display around the county.The quilt will be available for silent auction during this year's biennial quilt show.
"The full-time homemaker, I want to be?". To you it of, just want to marry a "happy to Normal". Author: Momoko Shirakawa
The majority of Japanese women are prejudiced desire "housewife someday" still. However, the "housewife someday" is Will it crucial to normal nowadays really? Tip of the various questions.
Golden Homemakers 100 Ideas to Beautify Your Home, Gudenian Rockail & Mayer, Marshall Cavendish, London, 1972.
Hey, that's Nancie! she does spell her name with a y! She's future homemaker of America! 1952... And what a beautiful lady sitting on the other fender!
Coffee Hit
Unit 25, Upper Level
Springvale Homemaker Centre
917 Princes Highway, Springvale, VIC 3171
Tel: 0410646427
Elizabeth "Betty" Francis (née Hofstadt, formerly Draper; January Jones) is the ex-wife of Don Draper (who affectionately called her "Bets" or on occasion "Birdy") and mother of their three children, Sally, Bobby and Gene. She is a classic early '60s homemaker, with the added intrigue of a past as a professional model. She majored in Anthropology at Bryn Mawr and speaks Italian. Betty is concerned with appearances and in the first season sees a psychiatrist for her nerves. She had recently lost her mother, who also valued looks and appearances highly and encouraged Betty to stay slim so that she could attract a husband. Just as Don is, on the surface, the picture-perfect model of a successful early '60s businessman, Betty appears to be the model wife, but like her husband she sometimes expresses feelings of unfulfillment and dissatisfaction with her "perfect life", and it is implied by her sometimes strained relations with her children that she never wanted to be a mother. She is often lonely, as Don spends most of his days and many nights working, and smokes constantly, presumably as a means to calm her anxiety. Although Don sees her as an excellent, caring mother—something he lacked in his own life—he often neglects to treat her as an equal adult companion. She knows nothing of her husband's true past, and wishes he were less remote and more involved in life at home. At the end of the first season, having deduced that her husband receives reports from her psychotherapist, she tells her psychotherapist that she has known for some time that her husband has affairs. By the second season, she appears to have reached an accommodation with Don, and their relationship appears to be less distant. However, at the end of the second season's eighth episode, Betty - fed up with Don's humiliation of her in public and private - calls her husband at work and forbids him from coming home. In the Season 2 finale, Betty finds out she is pregnant, the result of a brief period of reconciliation with Don. Still conflicted over the state of her marriage, she goes alone to Manhattan one evening and has sex with an anonymous man in a bar. She then invites Don to return home. In Season 3, Betty has her third child, who she names Gene after her father, who is living with the Draper's during her pregnancy but dies shortly before Gene is born. She also grows closer to Henry Francis, but their affair is not consummated. Later, Betty discovers Don's true identity and confronts him, forcing him to break down and reveal his past. A few weeks later, a series of events, including the discovery of Don's identity, Henry Francis' proclamation of love, and the assassinations of John Kennedy and Lee Harvey Oswald prompt Betty into a revelation that she no longer loves or trusts Don. By the beginning of Season 4, she has married Henry Francis, though they and the children continue to live in the house on Bullet Park Road. At the end of that season, however, Betty and Henry decide to move their family to nearby Rye.
Another failed attempt to do some work at Smokey Row... I again found the Tramp in downtown DSM. Today I saw it going east under MLK with one load of lumber. Even though it was crappy weather, I knew there were some shots I could try with the sun absent.
After setting up for a shot a mile up the road, the headlight disappeared! I didn't quite know what to make of it so I headed back to investigate. Turns out the crew had pulled up to the switch, uncoupled from and ran around the car. They'd push the load the last 2 miles into Beisser.
Iowa Interstate Railroad
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For the year long Happy Homemaker TagAlong Swap hosted by Elizabeth. We're making a set of tags each month for a year and then exchanging 1 set of 12 with a partner. Such a fun endeavor.
Known as the "Electri-Living Home," this was a model for the public to come and see a flame-less Home of Tomorrow. The publication, Living for Young Homemakers, featured the model home in 1957. It was open for public inspection under the sponsorship of Sacramento Municipal Utility District. The home is located at 3421 Lynne Way in Sacramento.
The all-electric model home is light conditioned as well as air conditioned. The house features the latest innovations in electrical equipment including: cooking appliances, water heating, and automatic clothes washing and drying. The home's heating is done electrically with a heat pump, which replaces both the usual furnace and the conventional air conditioner. The machine reverses itself automatically to pump heat either into or out of the houses, as needed, to maintain indoor temperature at comfort levels.
Other features include a switch in the master bedroom with controls a circle of lighting outside the home. Indirect daylighting is used in the living room and three-way switches provide a path of light from the carport to entry hall.
Construction of the home was completed by Joseph L. Binet.
Photo by Ernest Braun.
Supplies: Paper: October Afternoon (Modern Homemaker), Cardstock: The Paper Company (Kraft), Stickers: SRM Stickers (#50004 Fall), Other: button, raffia, Tools: Sewing machine, Silhouette SD (3d_ruffle_flower_C02598_1)
University of Arkansas System Division of Agriculture / RYAN MCGEENEY — 06-06-2023 — Scenes from the 2023 state meeting of the Arkansas Extension Homemakers Council in North Little Rock, Arkansas.
Coffee Hit
Unit 25, Upper Level
Springvale Homemaker Centre
917 Princes Highway, Springvale, VIC 3171
Tel: 0410646427
Joyce Hall presents Lacy Flory (right) of Washington County with the Pauline Bartholomew Young Homemaker Scholarship.
When my sister and I were growing up, Mom never had a job outside the home, but she took here role as “homemaker” very seriously. Over the course of 30+ years our parents built 3 family homes, and in each of those endeavors, Mom was not only physically involved in the building process, but she was also the book keeper and head cook and bottle washer. As a union carpenter, Dad handled the heavy lifting on site while holding down a regular job as well.
Recently, while going through an old cedar chest, my sister found one of Mom’s ledgers detailing the expenses for the house they started on old Lee’s Summit Road in Independence, Missouri in 1957. After losing their first house to the Interstate Highway System, they purchased 4 acres near Drumm Farm and began construction on what I’m sure they thought would be our residence for the rest of their lives.
As a retired builder, it is fascinating to me to go back and look at the entries in this journal and see the costs of the building in chronological order, from purchase of the acreage, to the building permit ($10), to utility lines, foundation and right on through to paint and furniture.
And then there are more personal connections, like seeing Mom’s handwriting and her understanding of accounting. Another touching entry is finding the entry for payment to Bill Sisk for paper hanging. Like many of the people that Mom and Dad hired to help build their homes, Bill was a personal friend in the trades, and my sister and I were friends with the Sisk boys, Alan and Randy.
What I take away from these memories is that for baby boomers, our parents were often partners in ways that married couples today are not. Two income families have changed the dynamic. I don’t know if it’s for the better or the worse, but it is definitely different.
I do know that I was a lucky guy to have been the product of their partnership.