I was Googling "Venita Cravens" and here I am. The Venita Cravens I knew in Oklahoma City during the 1950s-'60s was my Jr. high school buddy Cleve's mother. Venita was one of the country's more-successful impresarios during the period. She booked everything from My Fair Lady to Elvis, Brenda Lee and Ricky Nelson. She was also a close friend of Ginger Rogers (who was also from Oklahoma), Carol Channing (Hello Dolly, etc.), Lauren Bacall and May Boren Axton (Hoyt's mother also from Oklahoma) who wrote Heartbreak Hotel. Venita Cravens and May Boren Axton together in the same room was a real hoot as both were VERY crusty, strong women with ribald senses of humor who had made it to the top in (then) a man's business world. The town in Oklahoma (Venita) is not related. - Scott Foster, Honolulu