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Like a premature March squall, Tallulah Bankhead blew into Washington, D.C., and set up a noisier commotion than both Houses of Congress combined. Invited by Alabama's Democratic Representative Frank ("Everything's made for love") Boykin to testify on the capital's need for a civic auditorium, Alabamian Bankhead gave her blessing to the project, but begged off from appearing in a Valentine message to "Darling Congressman Boykin." Scrawled she: "Ten a.m. is an unprecedented time for a child of the grease paint to cope with the sandman." Since Tallulah would not go to Capitol Hill...
...Vaughan earlier had made another denial. He said that Truman had not delivered his famed snub to Thurmond during the 1949 inaugural parade. According to Vaughan, just as Thurmond's car approached the presidential reviewing stand, "Tallulah Bankhead came out with a terrific 'Boo!'" Said Vaughan: "She was behind the dignified Supreme Court with their silk hats, and she just about blew their hats off ... That was why [Truman] turned his head when Strom was coming past." Asked for comment last week, Miss Bankhead drawled: "Who's Harry Vaughan...
...interpretation, without verve or vigor. In terms of the play this is precisely the wanted effect, and this same interpretation is perfect, meshing with the ex-mistress' calculating shrewdness, when the two finally meet. Phoebe, the symbol of fame's temptation, is admirably played by Sarah Braveman. Her Tallulah Bankhead reading of the part manages to suggest both the grossness and warmth of her character...
...those sudden moments when her voice comes up like thunder, or she freezes with raffish hauteur, or has the charm of something caged and carnivorous. There are doubtless nobler ways of being unmistakable and unforgettable, but in a world where few people ever manage to be either, Actress Bankhead remain almost incessantly both...
Dear Charles (adapted by Alan Melville from a comedy by Marc-Gilbert Sauvajon and Frederick Jackson) brougt Tallulah Bankhead back to Broadway after five years-and itself back after ten. A 1944 flop called Slightly Scandalous, was adapted into a Paris hit, then (as Dear Charles) into a London...