Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...plan came last week from the Senate Cotton bloc. South Carolina's Purge-proof Ellison D. ("Cotton Ed") Smith had another solution : to give farmers parity payments instead of loans after the present crop season, release the Government's holdings in 1940. And Alabama's John Bankhead had still another: let farmers buy back their hocked cotton for 3? a pound, sell it at a quick profit, promise to reduce their acreage correspondingly...
...Broadway: Helen Claire in Kiss the Boys Goodbye, Robert Morley in Oscar Wilde. For a musicomedian who became overnight a magnificent dramatic actress: Ethel Waters. For a dramatic actor who became overnight a triumphant musicomedian : Walter Huston. For a fine actress who at last found the right play: Tallulah Bankhead in The Little Foxes. For an Alice-sit-by-the-fire who again became the belle of the ball: Laurette Taylor in Outward Bound...
Enthroned above all were the heads of the two Houses, President John Nance Garner of the Senate (looking more than usually owlish) and Speaker William Bankhead. Below them were ranged President Roosevelt, Senate Majority Leader Barkley, House Majority Leader Rayburn, and a tireless Representative from Manhattan for whom the sesquicentennial of the U. S. has been a three-year field day, Director Sol Bloom of the Joint Committee on Arrangements...
Oscar Hubbard (Carl Benton Reid) is mean, tightlipped, greedy; his brother Ben (Charles Dingle) shrewder, more capable, more sardonic; their sister Regina (Tallulah Bankhead) grandly and coldly ambitious for wealth, power, position. The trio's business schemes require the financial help of Regina's dying husband; and, sick of their vulpine methods, he refuses it. Out of this deadlock springs powerful drama of intramural conspiring and double-crossing, theft and virtual murder...
...Tallulah Bankhead-who, since her return from England in 1933, has floundered around in uncongenial roles-The Little Foxes offers a chance for powerful acting, and she takes it. She plays the masterful Regina with authority and insight. Herman Shumlin has directed the play in a style worthy of its significance and its star...