Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will distribute between the manufacturer, the jobber and the converter the 5% boost in the cost of cotton goods caused by the amendment of cotton-loving Senator John H. Bankhead to the Stabilization Extension Act (TIME, Oct. 9). In addition, OPAster Bowles hopes that most clothing prices will be rolled back 1.5%. But the main goal is to keep them from rising higher while giving the public something...
...show's biggest asset is June Havoc's Sadie. In a role that has been played, on stage & screen, by Jeanne Eagels, Tallulah Bankhead, Gloria Swanson, Joan Crawford and others, the frisky comedienne (late of Mexican Hayride) does not always measure up. But she lifts the part above its surroundings, is always engaging as June Havoc...
After reading the article, we are praying that the war will soon be over in Germany so Tallulah Bankhead may take a drink (in public) and the sailors at Farragut Naval Training Center will have their excuse for kissing the local females aged nine...
...Bankhead's efforts to squeeze the last penny of profit out of wartime cotton prices actually means nothing less than socialization of the cotton growers. For the Government may well become the sole buyer of their crops, the arbiter of price, and the dictator of production. Even the hardest-boiled cotton grabber would admit that under this act and its accompanying policy, free markets and free trading have gone a-glimmering-for as long as the policy lasts...