"Everywhere I go, people are always calling out to me," Beulah says.

She relates:"I remember once I had to be rushed to the doctor, because I suffer from bronchitis, and I couldn't breathe. "The doctor had me on the nebuliser and there I was, sick as ever, gasping for breath...people just kept coming up to me asking for my autograph, telling me a joke or just stopping to meet with me. I couldn't even answer them, but it didn't make a difference."

"All they saw me as was this funny lady, who must be laughing and making jokes all the time."

But even that brings a smile to Beulah, who continues with her comedy long after she has retired from her first profession, teaching.

"I retired seven years ago from Chaguanas Junior Secondary," Beulah says. "I am now full into my stage shows."

Just recently, Beulah did an ad for Play Whe and continues onstage almost every weekend with the Strolling Players. She recently spent two months in New York rehearsing and acting in a play put on by the Ashanandi Theatre Company, to which she would also return in January. But for the the comedienne, every month brings something new.

"Right now I am busy with my parang group, Los Paranderos De Trinidad, the current Lions champ. "

In February, it's Carnival time and Yangatang time heralds, not to mention her own calypso, Pain, for which she is now rehearsing. Beulah's first break came when, as a teacher, Freddie Kissoon spotted her talent and offered her a part with his drama company.

"I joined the group in 1974 and he has written some 17 plays for me."

Then it was off to Let's Laugh, the TV show that was a hit back in the late '70s, and later Horace James' Play of the Month. It was there she met her "life's partner", Stork St. Hill, whom many were convinced was her real-life husband.

Her pairing off with the ever funny Stork St. Hill saw a partnership that lasted almost 20 years, until his death in 1995.

"We were a great pair," Beulah says fondly , "we were opposites, so it was good to pair us off onstage." She and Stork went on to do some 30 advertisements together, making them the Trinidad's First Couple of comedy. But off the stage, Beulah was living life with her husband and three children, two of whom are adopted.

She is now a proud grandmother of two.

The eldest in a family of seven, six sisters and one brother, Beulah says her talent for singing came from bother her parents, but the drama side she credits her father with.

"He was always a very dramatic man." she recalls fondly.

Now two of her sisters and a brother are also members of Los Paranderos, while her brother, she notes, shares her talent for comedy. As for her children, while they have shown a bit of the Beulah magic in them, they have not really pursued it much.

But the likeable Beulah's wealth of talent should be enough for one family.