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...been quite a year. Freshman confusion notwithstanding, the University was a pretty lively place in those days--back when Tallulah Bankhead told the undergraduates that drama must never be censored, or when the Student Council made its official pronouncement, entered on record for posterity, against the gentle art of goalpost rioting...
Ogunquit, Me., Ogunquit Playhouse: Here Today, with Tallulah Bankhead and Estelle Winwood...
...United States Steel Hour (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Tallulah Bankhead in A Man for Oona, the story of a mother's droll search for a husband for her daughter...
Certain actors deserve much better than this show. David Rawle's Mama Tia, for example, proves overpoweringly that men can do anything better than women. Mama Tia has a great Amazon's body and a Tallulah Bankhead voice, and watching her bump and grind out a twisty number called "Razzle-Dazzle" is clearly the evening's treat. Rawle's voice, his enormous toothy smile, and his big cynical eyelids allow him to deliver the flattest sort of lines in a devastatingly funny manner; and he props up whole scenes simply by his presence...
...Soho Café. Yet he was never a stranger to London. The Soho restaurant called the Eiffel Tower knew his booming voice and august figure as well as it knew his colorful companions: Max Beerbohm, Tallulah Bankhead, Wyndham Lewis, the young Prince of Wales. In Ireland he spent his time with W. B. Yeats; in Paris he sought out James Joyce; in London he came to know Shaw, Wilde and Aldous Huxley. To women he was irresistible. It was said the female sitters would sometimes strip off their clothes without John's either asking or wanting them to. When...