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...play that Manhattan is scheduled to see this season-with Tallulah Bankhead as lead...
...Alabama, industrious John Sparkman, House Majority Whip, missed a clear majority over four opponents by a whisker (less than 300 votes), in a contest to fill the Senate seat of the late John H. Bankhead. In the runoff, Sparkman faces conservative James A. Simpson, Birmingham corporation lawyer, who ran second in both rural and city districts...
...Tallulah Bankhead is a first rate female who has the voice, the volatility and the savoir-faire to slip into a role as well tailored as her Mainbocher gown. As Amanda Prynne, a remarried divorcee on her honeymoon, she runs into her former husband, in a peculiarly identical circumstance, and complication set in. By the time the scene has changed from Southern France to Paris, they have started "afresh as two quite different people," leaving their respective spouses to the devil and fortunes of roulette. The pugilistie love affair that follows involves much description, mainly of a ringside nature...
...last week's Greenwich (Conn.) Theater run, Tallulah Bankhead got a cool $2,500; first-night orchestra seats at $4.80 per helped pay the freight...
Died. John Hollis Bankhead, 73, Senator from Alabama since 1931, who fought hard for the restoration of ex-King Cotton to the U.S. economic throne, last of a hardy trio of congressional Bankheads, uncle of throaty Actress Tallulah; of cerebral thrombosis; in Bethesda...