Word: bankhead
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Arturo Toscanini, whose Broadway appearances are few, has been three times to see The Medium, and its frivolous companion piece, The Telephone.* When Tallulah Bankhead saw The Medium, she went backstage, dramatically fell on her knees before Marie, and exclaimed: "I have been moved by three performances in my lifetime: John Barrymore in Hamlet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, and you." For the entire cast of six she had a typical Tallulu: "This is the only play . . . that has thrilled my soul and chilled my guts...
There were greetings from Fans Tallulah Bankhead, Billie Burke and Henry Ford II, and among the guests was Edgar Guest himself, who leaned over Anne's armful of roses, bussed her soundly and said to the audience: "There is no one for whom I have greater affection...
...queen (Tallulah Bankhead) has been living secludedly, half in love with easeful Death, for the ten years since her young husband was assassinated on their honeymoon. But she and the poet (Helmut Dantine) who has now come to assassinate her, fall madly in love. He rouses her to life, prompts her to assert her will in her conspiracy-ridden kingdom, then cowers at the thought that their love cannot last. Finding that he has taken poison, the queen goads him into shooting...
...passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand manner...
...Floaters-famed entertainers with no radio shows of their own (Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Bea Lillie) who don't mind picking up a few grand on someone else's. Jolson is currently the most-hitched-to star in radio. He recently upped Bing Crosby's Hooper 4.9 points, boosted Eddie Cantor's a full 5. Offered a show of his own, Jolson declined: he can make too much money guesting-with no worries over script and sponsor. At week's end, Jolson signed for ten appearances on the Crosby show next fall-$50,000 guaranteed...