Friday, November 05, 2010

Pulp of the Day: WHITE TRASH by Beulah Poynter


"Mattie Horn might be bawdy and direputable--but she was still beautiful enough to draw the town's most respected citizens down to the Hollow where she lived. And if her own charms failed, there was always her daughter Hagar--not yet eighteen, and pretty as a picture. The trouble was, Hagar wanted to be a respectable citizen herself. Tiring of visits on the sly, she took up right out in public with the preacher's son. Her boldness, and a slight dip into sin by Deacon Elihu Spry, brought down the wrath of the whole brutal community on the heads of the scarlet woman and her daughter"

Interestingly IMDB has a listing for an actress of the silent era called Beulah Poynter, born 1886. WHITE TRASH was published in 1952, making silent Beulah 66 at the time, if I can still add up in my head OK. Wouldn't it be great if they were one and the same?

2 comments:

GordonVG said...

http://www.biblio.com/details.php?dcx=139601087&aid=bkfndr

Charlie Williams said...

Cheers Gordon. There we have it - Beulah the silent actress and Beulah the writer were one and the same. Quite a career