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Some 5,000 mildly startled housewives in New York City picked up their ringing phones last week to hear the familiar accents of Tallulah Bankhead and Fred Allen speaking such plugs for The Big Show. Others heard Kate Smith giving a boost for her show by phone. The voices were tape-recorded, but many a housewife was presumably thrilled to hear the stars talk; some may even have tuned in as suggested. The stunt was the kind that has become a trademarked specialty of a radio go-getter named Ted Cott...
...stating that "theatergoers who watched fully expected her (Bankhead) to pull a small, pearl-handled revolver from her handbag and . . . shoot both counsel and defendant" and "if it (a judicial system) didn't put her on the stand, it was probably in imminent danger of an attack with a screwdriver, too," TIME'S writer hit a new high in vilification, made the efforts of defense counsel sound like the drooling of the veriest novice...
...TALLULAH BANKHEAD New York City...
...TIME, reporting the news of an unusual trial, tried to make it plain that Actress Bankhead was able to rise above the dull limitations of the law, and dominate the scene with a characteristically dramatic performance. Miss Bankhead apparently mistook TIME'S awed applause for a Bronx cheer...
...sorry Tallulah Bankhead received so much unjust publicity in fighting a would-be blackmailer. She has done what any other citizen should...