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Last June Alabama's desk-farmer, Senator John H. Bankhead, headed the Congressional bloc that shoved through a law forcing the Government to make every effort to buy cotton, wheat and other farm products at 100% of parity.* Cotton prices had soared over 100% since 1939, but John Bankhead wanted more: specifically, he wanted cotton prices to rise nearly 1? more a pound. Because cotton and wheat production have been consistently greater than domestic consumption, the law of supply & demand had long worked against Bankhead's dream of top prices for these commodities. Futures prices in the open...
...whose newest creation is a hat composed of a single pink garter) and Dressmaker Hattie Carnegie announced they would take the first possible boat to Paris. In San Francisco, Department Storekeeper Paul Verdier closed his doors and broke out champagne for his 600 employes. In Hollywood, husky-voiced Tallulah Bankhead, who had vowed not to take a drink until complete Allied victory, was rumored to have fallen off the wagon at an Elsa Maxwell Paris celebration party...
With Truman holding a narrow lead, 477½-to-472½, the bosses could wait no longer. Alabama's Bankhead withdrew his name, threw 22 votes to Truman. South Carolina switched all 18 votes to Truman. The galleries howled and screamed. Indiana's huge Boss Frank McHale withdrew Paul McNutt's name. Maine came over to Truman. "We want Wallace!" roared the galleries...
...Tallulah Bankhead probably takes the leading role, but all of the characters, including Canada Lee, who puts in a masterful performance, and William "Smacksie" Bendix of "Wake Island" fame, seem chosen perfectly for their respective roles. With so limited a backdrop as the gray Atlantic, Hitchcock provides his audience with plenty of fast-talking aboard the boat. The arguments presented by the different characters, ranging from the socialism of the black gang to the utter sophistication of a Bankhead as a lady reporter and of a millionaire friend, are likewise honest in their interpretation. Hitchcock has scored again...
Backstage. In spite of professional performances by Tom Connally and his supporting company-which included such seasoned troupers as Mississippi's Bilbo, Alabama's Bankhead and Tennessee's McKellar (see cut)-none but the most gullible galleryite was taken in. Everybody else knew that a cynical Senate had quietly made an election-year deal, arranged everything backstage in advance. There would be 1) no filibuster, 2) no cloture, 3) no Marcantonio bill...