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...other parts. Actually, she has already resolved both doubts to the satisfaction of most critics. As the simple, unaffected Southern belle of Deep Are the Roots (1945), she had shown her capacity for serious drama; now she has shown her mastery of the peculiar demands of airy farce. Cornell, Bankhead, Hayes and Lawrence will not have to give way to Barbara for a while yet. But the quiet radiance and well-trained competence that Barbara had brought to Broadway was enough to give the fabulous invalid plenty of hope for the day when her elders might retire. "Barbara...
...didn't realize," said Barbara last week, "how much I had missed New York." With her play set for a long run, and a seven-month contract guaranteeing her 10% of the box-office take (a figure topped only by such stars as Bankhead and Lawrence), she had time at last to spend long hours with her daughter Susan. The marriage which had been foundering on the shoals of Hollywood was ending in amicable divorce. Barbara had taken a two-year lease on a house in the East 80s, and was busy furnishing it. There were romantic and practical...
...Washington, Tallulah Bankhead explained her education: "Daddy let me quit school at 15. He didn't see any sense to my trying to learn algebra when I wanted to go on the stage. He said if I knew Shakespeare and the Bible and how to shoot craps, I had a liberal education...
...Head (Tallulah Bankhead;. Columbia). For her debut as a pop singer, Tallulah has borrowed Marlene Dietrich's sub-basement baritone and German accent with results that will please curio collectors if not musicians...
...Manhattan court, Mrs. Evyleen R. Cronin, 58, onetime secretary-companion and maid to Tallulah Bankhead, was charged with stealing more than $4,000 from her former employer by raising and forging checks. The money was used, cried the defendant's lawyer, to buy things for Miss Bankhead-"Cocaine, marijuana, liquor, booze, whisky, champagne and sex." Retorted outraged lava-voiced Tallulah: "Of course I drink. But nobody has to kite checks to pay for my liquor." As for dope: "Even if I had been getting it-which I certainly wasn't-do you think I'd have been...