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...item in the will of the late Sir Guy Francis William Laking, 26, filed in Lon don, read: "To my Friend Tallulah Bankhead [actress, daughter of Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama], all my motor-cars...
...Famed persons divorced by Judge Bartlett in the last four years: Cornelius Vanderbilt Jr., Irving T. Bush (terminal), Mrs. Bainbridge Colby (diplomacy), Janet Flagg Harlan Trubee (judiciary), Claire Brokaw (Vanity Fair), Eugenia Bankhead Hoyt Butt Lee (Actress Tallulah's sister), Jessica Sargeant (now Mrs. Richard Barthelmess), Evelyn Marshall Field (department store), Walker Inman (tobacco), Delphine Dodge Cromwell Baker (automobile), Edward Delafield (finance), Louise Annette Thompson (railroad), John Bellinger Bellinger (Army), Lora I. Knight (aviation), Beryl Curtis Ward (bread), Dorothy Cochrane Karageorgevitch (Serbian royalty), Peter Arthur Drury Jr. (Washington, D. C.), Sidi Wirt Spreckels (sugar), Adelaide Rhinelander Chaqueneau...
Alabama. With Senator James Thomas ("Tom-Tom") Heflin who mortally fears and hates the Roman Pope, legally barred from the Democratic primary because he bolted the national ticket in 1928, Demo- crats last week nominated for the Senate John H. Bankhead, Jasper attorney, son of the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, uncle of voluptuous, London-petted Actress Tallulah Bankhead. The defeated candidate: Frederick Ingate Thompson, Mobile publisher. Judge Benjamin Meek Miller, anti-Klan, won the regular Democratic nomination for Governor. Senator Heflin, who plans to run as an independent Senatorial candidate in November, urged his friends to keep away from...
...contemplating her own scenes of circus life, and Artist George Frederick Arthur Belcher stalked about, his ruddy face and bushy red eyebrows set off by a bright blue foulard stock. Women, young and old, crowded around Augustus John's portrait of London's rash theatrical favorite, Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of onetime (1917-29) U. S. Congressman William Brockman Bankhead of Alabama. She was pictured wearing the diaphanous salmon negligee which elicited so much gasping and sighing from the stalls during her recent London appearances in He's Mine...
Jumper Hoyt had not previously been famed, but is or has been variously related to many and variously famed characters, including Actress Bankhead whom many a theatregoer believes to be red-headed and who is the daughter of a onetime U. S. Congressman and who is a sister of Jumper Hoyt's onetime wife Eugenia who is often referred to as Jeanne, notably by the Social Register...