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...gets a lot of special handling, and quite a budget ($150,000 a year). Last year 800 actors and musicians and 45 scriptwriters were used on one or another of its 150 pro grams. Its guest performers have included Carl Van Doren, Archibald MacLeish, Orson Welles, Canada Lee, Tallulah Bankhead, Deems Taylor. The Army broadcast it to servicemen over 400 radio stations, and the OWI beamed it to Australia and New Zealand...
...Royal Scandal" succeeds in poking fun at the welter of intrigues for which the court of the czarina was justly notorious, but it does not measure up to "Forgotten Paradise," the silent film to which Ernst Lubitsch now adds dialogue and Tallulah Bankhead. Wielding its satire with too broad a hand, "A Royal Scandal" has lost the flavor of the original, and director Otto Preminger finds himself left with something too slapstick to be convincing...
Charles Coburn outshines Dahling Tallulah in his role of chancellor. The bland innocence with which he asks visiting admirals about the progress of their plots towards his own assassination overshadows even the Bankhead rendition of rather monotonous dialogue...
While in occasional scenes "A Royal Scandal" reaches a pinnacle of Hollywood humor, those who take no great joy in such oft repeated lines as Miss Bankhead's snappy "Shut up!" will find more of tedium in it than delight...
...Tallulah Bankhead, an actress who revels in free speech ,but suffers "depression and melancholia" when she is misquoted, came around to admitting that she sometimes prefers misquotations. Unnerved after an unexpected mass interview with a dozen reporters in Manhattan's Stork Club, she confided to Columnist Leonard Lyons: "I suffer less when it's only the Times and the Herald Tribune, because then I know that if I should say 'godammit,' they would report that I had said 'good gracious...