Word: bankheads
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Private Lives (by Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson) was, 17 years ago, a brittle comedy in which Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward deftly misbehaved. Last week it became a vehicle-a sort of battering ram-for Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Bankhead, with Donald Cook (Claudia, Skylark), puts on quite a show, though few would call it Private Lives...
Coward's tale of a divorced couple who meet again on their second honeymoon, fly their new mates, and let fly (between endearments) at each other, once seemed as faintly decadent as chain-smoking. In the Bankhead version, it is as strenuous as football. Miss Bankhead, between moments of dreamy ladylikeness during which she is probably catching her breath, coils, snarls, pounces, crunches her lines, turns throbbing baritone, and in general portrays what appears to be the love of Mt. Vesuvius for a mortal...
...Brooklyn Dodgers gave 27-year-old Negro Pitcher Dan Bankhead a brief trial last year, sent him back to a Dodger farm...
...Last Antony and Cleopatra, in 1937, ran for five performances, was greeted by Critic John Mason Brown: "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra-and sank...
...swelled to more than 20 million. The mailbag bulged to 10,000 letters a day. The March of Dimes (a donation with a letter is suggested as the price of admission to the contest) collected something like $125,000. Listeners brightly guessed Elsa Maxwell, Maude Adams, Sister Kenny, Tallulah Bankhead, Mary Pickford, Mary Garden. But still nobody guessed right. Last week Miss Hush tried to spill the beans...