Word: actresses
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Katharine Cornell, soulful, dark-eyed U.S. actress, touring European war zones with her oldtime favorite, The Barretts of Wimpole Street, put up at Rome's lavish, fuel-short Grand Hotel, was promptly rated No. 1 on the "bathtub circuit" (hot water morning and afternoon)-a post-occupation honor hitherto conferred on only two other guests: Winston Churchill and General George Catlett Marshall...
...that, The Seven Lively Arts is quite a show. It has, to begin with, the finest comedienne on the stage today, Beatrice Lillie. Back to Broadway after five years abroad, but saddled with unworthy material, Actress Lillie performs one of the greatest feats of theatrical alchemy on record. It is just too bad that her satiric and high-comedy gifts are devoted to such smarty songs and Winter Gardenish sketches...
Tallulah Bankhead, husky, loud-spoken actress who played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright...
Married. Ethel Barrymore Colt, 32, brunet, convent-bred actress daughter of Ethel Barrymore; and John Romeo Miglietta di Carmiano, fiftyish, Oxford-educated Italian-born executive of American Republics Corp. (oil); she for the first time, he for the third; in Manhattan...
...says, "I have done as much as any woman my age [63*] could do." With her column to produce daily (she is assisted by a ghostwriter), a heavy schedule of voluntary entertainment for servicemen, a movie (Weekend at the Waldorf) in the making, Author-Actress Maxwell commutes frequently between her Waldorf apartment and Hollywood, where she lives with Evalyn Walsh McLean and the Hope diamond. Having been at one time or other in her career a pianist, composer, vaudevillian, singer, music critic, impresario and hotel keeper, she now describes herself as homeless, without a possession in the world, and terribly...