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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...characters are humanity's archetypes. Mr. & Mrs. Antrobus (Fredric March & Florence Eldridge) are the eternal Mr. & Mrs.; their maid Sabina (Tallulah Bankhead) is Lilith, the eternal floozy; their son Henry (Montgomery Clift) is Cain, the eternal Dead-End kid. Their story is the eternal struggle between good & evil, the eternal seesaw of progressing and falling back. Mr. Antrobus comes home excitedly from the office, having invented the wheel and fixed up the alphabet-but the Ice Age has arrived. Next he swaggers fatuously about Atlantic City, backslapping his lodge brothers and falling for a bathing beauty-but the Flood...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Nov. 30, 1942 | 11/30/1942 | See Source »

From the same punchbowl that has refreshed visiting Cambridge celebrities from Anna Held to Tallulah Bankhead, the editors of Mother Advocate will serve ale to Somerset Maugham, famous English novelist, whose latest contribution to the movies. "The Moon and Sixpence," had its Boston premier last evening...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Maugham Will Attend Advocate Punch Today | 10/30/1942 | See Source »

Dusted off this week for presentation at Brattle Hall is an old play of about six years back, "Reflected Glory." In a way it seems a shame that the dust was disturbed, for the play was none-too-good when Tallulah Bankhead starred in it on its last appearance, and it makes a poor vehicle for the stage debut of Gloria Swanson, the well-known screen star. The play deals with the life of a rising actress and her feelings about life in the theatre. She babbles constantly about wanting to marry and have a home...

Author: By S. A. K., | Title: PLAYGOER | 7/8/1942 | See Source »

There will be production difficulties, too. Although such stars as Paul Robeson (who will play Othello at Cambridge and Princeton), Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Jane Cowl and Gracie Fields are scheduled, few Hollywood headliners will have their usual summer fling at legit. Hollywood, going full blast, can't spare them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: The Rationed Stage | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

Married. Actor John Emery, 37, ex-husband of Tallulah Bankhead; and Dancer Tamara Geva, 35, ex-wife of Choreographer George Balanchine (now the husband of Dancer Vera Zorina); in Beverly Hills, Calif...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jul. 6, 1942 | 7/6/1942 | See Source »

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