| LC control no. | n 2018060567 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Cumming, Adelaide Hawley, 1905-1998 |
| Variant(s) | Hawley, Adelaide, 1905-1998 Fish, Adelaide, 1905-1998 Fish, Dieta Adelaide, 1905-1998 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | New York (N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1905-03-06 |
| Death date | 1998-12-21 |
| Place of birth | Scranton (Pa.) |
| Place of death | Bremerton (Wash.) |
| Field of activity | Television Radio Vaudeville Advertising Education |
| Affiliation | General Mills, Inc. |
| Profession or occupation | Entertainers Teachers Singers |
| Found in | Women in the news. Vol. 1, no. 34, 1950-10-27 title frame (Women in the news with Adelaide Hawley) Adelaide Fish Hawley Cumming Papers, 1922-1967 viewed online October 19, 2018 at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Harvard University biography (Adelaide Fish Hawley Cumming; born Adelaide Fish in Scranton, Pennsylvania on March 6, 1905; married to Mark Hawley, 1932-1946; married to Lawrence Cumming,1950; studied and taught music; performed in vaudeville and on the radio; thirty-year broadcasting career starting in 1935, narrating and hosting programs such as "The woman reporter", "Woman's page of the air", and "News of the day"; portrayed the character "Betty Crocker" for General Mills from 1950-1965; earned Ph.D. in speech education in 1967) Wikipedia WWW site, viewed October 19, 2018 (Adelaide Hawley Cumming; born Dieta Adelaide Fish on March 6, 1905; American vaudeville performer, radio host, television star, teacher; died, December 21, 1998, in Bremerton, Washington) |
| Associated language | eng |
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