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...Producers are God-damned communists," Miss Tallulah Bankhead raged yesterday. "They get angry about Japan and Germany, but they wouldn't let me put on a benefit show for the Finns...
Tanned under his crumpled white hat, the President fished calmly in the Pacific. Far from calm was the Senate. As irritation mounted, Colorado's Johnson, Nevada's McCarran, Indiana's Van Nuys, South Carolina's Smith, Iowa's Gillette, Alabama's John Bankhead, issued statements ranging from plaintive pleading to desperate threats. Saturday Congress had stopped even pretending to keep its mind on its work, cocked an ear to Springfield, Ill., kept an eye on the ticker for a flash from the Panama Canal Zone...
...last ounce of conviction from her lines. It is a bitter and disillusioning play with hardly a note of hope at the end. But it is a play whose construction is hard and compact, whose story never wanders, whose characters are so chiselled that they hurt the conscience. Tallulah Bankhead, Patricia Collinge, Charles Dingle and the rest are masters of every line and motion their parts could not be conceived in the hands of others...
Miss Hellman has increased the ugliness of the play by chiselling each character to the bone. One or two incidents seemed a little more overwhelming than they had to be. Tallulah Bankhead, hungering for the fruits of wealth and waiting for her husband to die, performs to perfection the subtle shifting between cajolery and tyranny. Her two brothers whose ruthlessness is matched only by hers are done to a turn by Charles Dingle and Carl Benton Reid. Overcoming a tendency to over-act at first, Patricia Collinge is at the end the most convincing (if that is possible) of them...
...Manhattan producer, short, bespectacled, intellectual Herman Shumlin (Grand Hotel, The Children's Hour), who wears a hat indoors, conceals his baldness, refused to let his production (The Little Foxes, Tallulah Bankhead's first stage hit in six years) give a benefit performance. Lithe Miss Bankhead raged into the headlines, said she'd donate her own salary not for one performance but for a whole week ($1,000) to the Finns. Other pro-Finland stars and producers rushed to support Miss Bankhead, castigate Mr. Shumlin. Somebody pointed out that Herman Shumlin was the only Broadway producer advertising in the Communist Daily...