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...Jill St. John is booked for the Soviet Union. Raquel Welch is earmarked for China." Pakistan? It was down for Tallulah Bankhead (who died...
Shortly before World War II she made a perilous trip across the German border with $50,000-the price of freedom for 500 Jews. She was equally skilled in personal combat. She once flung a chair through Tallulah Bankhead's door. On another occasion, having learned that Hammett had another woman in his Hollywood house, she flew across the country, smashed up his bar, and caught the next plane back to New York...
...Broadway. Now there is one: the Uris Theatre, with 1,896 seats, at the base of a new 50-story office building. To celebrate its opening, a crowd of Broadway luminaries-including Ethel Merman, Thornton Wilder, Fred and Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First on the list: Playwright-Director George Abbott, 85, who observed: "That...
...Holt, Rinehart & Winston. $25. This is the second in an informal series of lavish productions about great names in show business. It suffers badly in comparison with Cole, its predecessor, which among other things re-created the all-out sheer pizazz of the '30s. Porter was a genius, Bankhead a personality. Cole's lyrics enriched the previous book incalculably; in this volume Critic Brendan Gill, who treats her life with proper studied indulgence, confesses that most of Tallulah's talk worth repeating is unprintable...
...role of Cleopatra has defeated almost all actresses who have essayed it. Among Americans, only Rose Eytinge was in full command of the part in the 19th century. When the play was mounted in 1937, the late John Mason Brown began his review with the celebrated comment, "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra--and sank." In modern times, only Katharine Cornell has been highly acclaimed by both critics and public (in the 1947-48 season), and even she was somewhat over-rated. (British acresses have managed only a little better...