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Like Peggy Wood, svelte, sexy Tallulah Bankhead has not been seen on her native boards for some years, although her bony, faintly reptilian face has brooded through several recent Hollywood films. In Forsaking All Others, Miss Bankhead of Alabama is called upon to play the part of a young woman who is about to be married to her childhood sweetheart. Waiting nervously in an anteroom of the church, the bride-to-be exclaims that "she would really rather live in sin'' than go through with the marriage. Unexpectedly she is relieved of the necessity. Her groom jilts...
Colonial--"Forsaking All Others." Tallulah Bankhead steps onto the legitimate stage. Opening Monday night...
...broad, mobile face is ruled off at the bottom quarter by a large, loose mouth which can be as horrible as a conventionalized Grecian mask or can twist up into one of the most appealing smiles on the U. S. boards. Her eyes are as heavy-lidded as Tallulah Bankhead's. not from cinematographic languor but from a ceaseless brooding contemplation. She now wears her dark, slightly wavy hair shoulder length and behind her ears. Her friends call her "Kit." She is precious in the care of her voice, does not like to talk before a performance. Before and after...
...Miss Bankhead's Doctor...
...Faithless that 'she has become a prostitute to get money for the doctor.' " The writer, screenplaywright of Faithless, and his late great & good friend, Producer Paul Bern, made sure of factual deference to known and admitted medical ethics, caused the discussed situation to hinge on only the Bankhead-spoken lines, "The doctor didn't say where I was to get the money for these things?"-a definite implication of satisfactory medical attention-and the Bankhead return with a drugstorish package. Does it interest TIME and M.D. Myers to know that the Faithless situation was founded on late...