Search Details

Word: bankhead (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...Student Council came out against goalpost rioting while the Faculty concerned itself with abolishing the elementary language requirement. This was the year when Tallulah Bankhead told the CRIMSON that drama must never be censored, and the spring when it was discovered that Harvard University was left without a single dean or executive above the rank of secretary to the President for one entire weekend...

Author: By Martin J. Brookhuyson, | Title: 'Outside World' Crises, Changes At College Trouble Class of 1936 | 6/12/1961 | See Source »

Midgie Purvis (by Mary Chase) presents Tallulah Bankhead as an oddball society matron who masquerades as a very old lady. Young-hearted Midgie Purvis has long embarrassed her family as a kind of card-of-all-work, and when her son begs that she meet his fiancee and her family in decorous matronly style, she decamps instead. Taking rooms behind a candy store, she turns into a frowsy, fumbly baby sitter who suddenly goes on the loose with her three young charges, causing nocturnal havoc as she careens about and more havoc when it comes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play on Broadway: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...also, of course, a gamely resourceful Tallulah, now Charlestoning, now sliding down banisters and firemen's poles, now swinging far out across the stage, or making utterance in her best Bankhead baritone, or looking for just a second like grandmother turning into the wolf. But for all that, granny's not up to a whole evening, while Midgie Purvis is scarcely alive for half...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: New Play on Broadway: Feb. 10, 1961 | 2/10/1961 | See Source »

...theatergoers, Tallulah Bankhead is a magical marquee name, and Roger Stevens the highly regarded producer of West Side Story. But to Broadway's form sheet. Theatrical Investor, Actress Bankhead has finished out of the money in three consecutive starts, while Stevens is the sponsor of seven losers in his last nine attempts. This is the sort of coldly statistical handicapping that in 14 months has made TI the racing form of the angels, has encouraged Publisher Seymour Vail to go one step further with his offer to book bets on theater nags. For as little as $50 (plus brokerage...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Angels' Racing Form | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Group II. Into this unpromising assemblage-thanks in part to the presence of ill-starred Star Tallulah Bankhead and Co-Producer Roger Stevens-falls Midgie Purvis, a comedy by Mary (Harvey) Chase. Similarly tainted: Rhinoceros, which combines previously unsuccessful Producer Leo Kerz and unpredictable (three for seven) Director Joseph Anthony with an unknown commercial quantity, Playwright Eugene Ionesco...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Broadway: Angels' Racing Form | 1/6/1961 | See Source »

Previous | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Next