Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Sophie Wing (Tallulah Bankhead) is a famous actress whose husband went abroad and enlisted in 1939, was soon after reported missing, and later declared legally dead. Now in 1944 Sophie is about to marry her leading man (Donald Cook) when a queer phone call announces that her husband is on his way to her house. Before he arrives, Sophie's fiancé, then her father, then her little daughter, and finally Sophie herself have extensive visions of what the reunion will be like. Keeping to the brittle comedy mood of the play, Barry uses the visions for satire rather...
There were plenty of signs that food prices would continue to rise above the dike's top. Item: in Washington last week Senator John H. Bankhead, in a one-man exposition of a legislative bloc at work, blandly predicted to U.S. farmers that the Commodity Credit Corp. would continue for another year its open-purse support of agricultural prices...
...every commodity trader knows, the farm bloc's votes are as good as Bankhead's expansive promises. Therefore the traders cheerfully hoisted cotton prices another $1.30 a bale, pushed grain prices...
...tradition, "Foolish Notion" steers pointedly clear of the many problems presently besetting the world and sets before its audience neat, imaginative comedy with a touch of light sophistication that makes for decidedly good theatre. Instead of tackling the complexities of international intrigue, playwright Barry and his leading lady, Tallulah Bankhead, plunge into Sophie Wing's domestic difficulties, complex and intriguing in their own entertaining...
...long as matters remain witty, "Foolish Notion" is a remarkably edifying Play Javishly spiced with fast patter and an air of fantasy. Tallulsh's Sophie slinks along through three acts, charging each gag line with the solid note of Bankhead innuendo; Joan Shopard, recently of "Tomorrow the World," nearly steals several scenes as Happy, Sophic's quipping adopted daughter. During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening...