Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Reflected Glory" means Tallulsh Bankhead's glory reflected upon Tallulah Bankhead. Most commendably, however, Miss Bankhead's star is made to shine, not through the familiar expedient of excluding capable support, but rather through the skillful writing of George Kelly, with the maximum of adaptation to the peculiar talents of a peculiar artist. The actress is cast as an actress, and that leads to all sorts of dainty nuances. Sometimes Miss Bankhead acts the conscious actress, sometimes the unconscious actress, and sometimes she just acts...
...pictures set here and there to advertise the play, give a very deceptive indication of Miss Bankhead's charms, chiefly because they give the suggestion of her voice. The rich, strong tones of its lower ranges come much closer than do her slightly saccharine, languishing looks, to expressing the pungency unstained by her throughout the play. She uses that voice of roar, chatter, rave allure, and when it breaks, to breaks. The combined effect is to give what Mr. Kelly twice defines, through the mouths of lovers, as color, to a character than would otherwise be rather insipid be cause...
...Speaker Bankhead, after calling on the President last week, shook his head lugubriously about the chances of getting such a bill through Congress. For if reorganization means anything it will reduce, not increase, the number of jobs, and new jobseekers as well as old jobholders will be around the necks of Congressmen...
Said Speaker Bankhead sourly: "Every member of the Cabinet and every bureau chief will bring pressure to bear on their friends in Congress...
...this important post there are two serious contenders. One is Tammany's John Joseph O'Connor of Manhattan, brother of Franklin Roosevelt's former law partner, 13 years a member of Congress, chairman of the all-important Rules Committee. During the last Congress Representative Bankhead, then Leader, was ill so much that Mr. O'Connor handled the duties of Leader for weeks at a time. When Speaker Byrns suddenly died in the last days of the session, Mr. Bankhead was promptly elected to succeed him, but the stormy question of whether Mr. O'Connor should...