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...Vice President Garner sent a letter to the Texas delegation in the House urging them to vote for their colleague and his political protege. In addition two other serious contenders for the Speakership were still in the running: loud, rambunctious John Elliott Rankin of Tupelo, Miss., and William B. Bankhead (father of Tallulah and the Cotton Control Act) of Jasper...
Dark Victory (by George Brewer Jr. & Bertram Bloch; Alexander McKaig, producer). At least one star fell on Alabama when Tallulah Bankhead was born at Huntsville 32 years ago. Without tarrying long on the stage of her native land, this daughter of a Congressman and niece of a Senator went to England where she played in a dozen successes, settled in a luxurious little house in Farm Street, drove a flashing green Bentley. She was publicly and privately idolized by enthusiastic followers who took her for the personification of Sex. Last year Miss Bankhead came home to act in a featherweight...
...rich bravura part, Miss Bankhead impersonates a dashing, devil-may-care sportswoman named Judith Traherne. Thoroughly rebellious, she is taken to see Dr. Steele (Earle Larimore of the Theatre Guild), a brain specialist, by her family physician who is unable to diagnose an obscure ailment of which she is as intolerant as she is afraid. Dr. Steele, about to move to Vermont and settle down to general practice, has the unhappy task of discovering that the young woman has a brain tumor which will kill her in ten months...
Though there are few older situations than this, Miss Bankhead manages to get through the moraturi te salutamus business with a minimum of fustian. She nervously stabs cigarets into ash trays, gasps, whispers in the approved manner of the Green Hat school of acting. With but two months left to live, she finds that dissipation is not a proper preparation for meeting her Maker, goes to Dr. Steele in Vermont. Here, before Death overtakes her, Miss Bankhead runs the other gamut of her talent, bouncing around on furniture, puffing out her cheeks in gay girlishness...
...Congressman was too obscure to issue a eulogy of the dead Speaker. One potent griever was Representative Joseph W. Byrns of Tennessee, majority leader; another Representative William Bankhead of Alabama, Chairman of the potent Rules Committee; a third, Representative John McDuffie, also of Alabama. By normal "right of succession," Leader Byrns should be elected Speaker in January. Mr. McDuffie was an unsuccessful candidate when Rainey was elected in March, 1933. These two, Mr. Bankhead, and perhaps others, will doubtless be candidates for the Speakership again. A many-sided quarrel arousing factional bitterness will not make it any easier...