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...Bankhead had a fine old Southern name, a good fast ball and a fair curve. For the Memphis Red Sox in the Negro American League, he had won ten games against five losses. Branch Rickey personally scouted him and decided he could help the Dodgers...
...have the Yankees," announced Tallulah Bankhead, actress and ball fan. "For years they've been cold and colorless perfectionists, and they bore the bloomers off me." Miss Bankhead's heart belongs to the Giants (who last won a pennant in 1937). "When they win I want to do cartwheels on top of their dugout," said she, "and don't think I can't. When they lose, my vichyssoise is curdled, to say nothing of my gizzard. Last season I lived on curdled vichyssoise...
...line roles. Twenty-five new theaters and some 175 old houses, about half of them employing Equity actors, are out to make it. To draw the crowds, most theater managers are trying to buy big Broadway and Hollywood names for their barbershop-window posters. Most sought-after star: Tallulah Bankhead. Most popular plays: Dream Girl and Joan of Lorraine...
Arturo Toscanini, whose Broadway appearances are few, has been three times to see The Medium, and its frivolous companion piece, The Telephone.* When Tallulah Bankhead saw The Medium, she went backstage, dramatically fell on her knees before Marie, and exclaimed: "I have been moved by three performances in my lifetime: John Barrymore in Hamlet, Jeanne Eagels in Rain, and you." For the entire cast of six she had a typical Tallulu: "This is the only play . . . that has thrilled my soul and chilled my guts...
There were greetings from Fans Tallulah Bankhead, Billie Burke and Henry Ford II, and among the guests was Edgar Guest himself, who leaned over Anne's armful of roses, bussed her soundly and said to the audience: "There is no one for whom I have greater affection...