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Stolen: armfuls of Tallulah Bankhead's flowers from admirers; on opening night in Manhattan. "I saw a strange man in my dressing room," Tallulah recalled later, "but I didn't think anything...
...queen (Tallulah Bankhead) has been living secludedly, half in love with easeful Death, for the ten years since her young husband was assassinated on their honeymoon. But she and the poet (Helmut Dantine) who has now come to assassinate her, fall madly in love. He rouses her to life, prompts her to assert her will in her conspiracy-ridden kingdom, then cowers at the thought that their love cannot last. Finding that he has taken poison, the queen goads him into shooting...
...passe heroics into a rococo extravaganza that would be lively theater to boot. And very possibly The Eagle Has Two Heads is full of brilliant rhetoric, in French. But on Broadway it is just a grimly gaudy bore. Nor, for all her fire and force, can Actress Bankhead act it the one way that might be effective-with high artifice, in the immensely grand manner...
...Floaters-famed entertainers with no radio shows of their own (Al Jolson, Tallulah Bankhead, Bea Lillie) who don't mind picking up a few grand on someone else's. Jolson is currently the most-hitched-to star in radio. He recently upped Bing Crosby's Hooper 4.9 points, boosted Eddie Cantor's a full 5. Offered a show of his own, Jolson declined: he can make too much money guesting-with no worries over script and sponsor. At week's end, Jolson signed for ten appearances on the Crosby show next fall-$50,000 guaranteed...
Fred Allen (Sun. 8:30 p.m., NBC). Guest: Tallulah Bankhead...