Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Actress Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of Congressman William Brockman...
...Bankhead of Alabama and niece of Alabama's new Senator John Hollis Bankhead, returned to the U. S. after eight consecutive years of playing on the London stage. Said she: "Oh, Englishmen are divine! Just divine! But I have seen and been with them so long the perspective gets dim. Now that I am away, I see Englishmen as even more divine than when I left them...
...item in the will of the late Sir Guy Francis William Laking, 26, filed in Lon don, read: "To my Friend Tallulah Bankhead [actress, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama], all my motor-cars...
...Famed persons divorced by Judge Bartlett in the last four years: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Irving T. Bush (terminal), Mrs. Bainbridge Colby (diplomacy), Janet Flagg Harlan Trubee (judiciary), Claire Brokaw (Vanity Fair), Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee (Actress Tallulah's sister), Jessica Sargeant (now Mrs. Richard Barthelmess), Evelyn Marshall Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau...
Alabama. With Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin who mortally fears and hates the Roman Pope, legally barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from...