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...Viscount Grey of Fallodan, 71, Britain's Wartime Foreign Secretary, gravely, of heart disease, in Christen Bank, Northumberland; California's Governor James Rolph Jr., of congestion of the lungs and high fever, in San Francisco; Betty Compton Walker, of colitis, in Evian-les-Bains, France; Actress Tallulah Bankhead, of acute abdominal trouble, in Manhattan; Valerie Marguerite Germonpres von Stroheim, third wife of Film Director Erich Oswald Hans Carl Maria von Nordenwall von Stroheim, of burns about the head and shoulders and seared lungs when a hair-drying machine in a beauty shop ignited, in Hollywood...
...Party (by Ivor Novello, produced by William A. Brady and Samuel F. E. Nirdlinger) is a slice of pure snob entertainment off the heel of the loaf. It projects a party given for a famed young London actress after her opening night: Lora Baxter in distant simulacrum of Tallulah Bankhead. Plot: Miss Baxter inveigles her old lover, now married, into kissing her. His little wife sees the kiss and tries to die by gulping all of what she thinks is Miss Baxter's cocaine. But it is only powdered sugar and her swoon is a symptom only of autosuggestion...
Pretty, long-legged Lora Baxter is shrill, restless, self-centred and predatory as Tallulah Bankhead. When her part calls for acting, she rants and waves her arms as Miss Bankhead would never do, even at home. Most of the time Mrs. Campbell's flat face, truculent mouth and huge eyes dominate the proceedings with lines which may very well have been contributed by herself. A Party, scarcely a play, is based on the novel idea that some people who cannot, would like to go to a celebrity party. It succeeds in exploding the idea that such a party...
...Dressier at a party, regaled her with his musical arrangement of President & Mrs. Harding receiving the children for the annual eggroll on the White House lawn at Easter. Marie Dressier put him on a benefit performance bill. Presently he was appearing at the Bat Club in London where Tallulah Bankhead and the Prince of Wales were equally enthusiastic...
Forsaking All Others has a set, a combination of cosiness and opulence, executed by Donald Oenslager, which may be recorded as the best-looking stage drawing room on Broadway. Miss Bankhead's lazy walk, assured head-tossings and general air of supersophistication are interesting: one understands why London "gallery girls" formed Tallulah Bankhead clubs. Her performance is as smooth and exciting as a planter's punch. You will probably not be able to recall what it was that she and clever Fred Keating said that made you chuckle, but you will remember chuckling...