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...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...
...common touch, Blackpool's history is alight with great names of show business-W. C. Fields. Bea Lillie, Danny Kaye, Marlene Dietrich, Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead. But none of them could rewrite the Blackpool creed. "You can't be chichi in Blackpool" is how one Blackpudlian phrases it. "It's not art for art's sake here. It's art for Pete's sake, and Pete owns the town...
...true Manhattan snob boasts that he never goes to the pier-fringed West Side except when sailing to Europe. In that spirit, Actress Tallulah Bankhead last week lamented to a New York Timesman that she will soon be forced to journey west to begin rehearsals for her first Broadway appearance since 1957, the title role in Midgie Purvis, a new farce by Mary Chase. Said Tallulah in her Far East town house: "I never leave the East Side. I haven't been to a nightclub in ten years, and the theater bores me-and besides, I haven...
...with every delighted squeal ("Darling, I haven't seen you in ages'') and every "ad-lib"' joke carefully put down beforehand by veteran Radio-TV Writer Goodman Ace and a staff of three. Typical of the show's calculated coyness was the time Tallulah Bankhead (whose parody of herself is becoming increasingly pathetic) started to tell a joke about some Texans in Paris, only to be cut off by a commercial. Writer-Producer Ace promises that on successive shows a guest will tell a little bit more of the joke until, by season...
...Lata the moviegoers can hear their favorites in any one of twelve Indian dialects, and her popularity is such that she never changes her soft tone .or lilting style to fit the character on the screen. The effect is as if Doris Day did the singing for Baritone Tallulah Bankhead, Monotone Marilyn Monroe and Tammytone Debbie Reynolds in the same movie...