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There were plenty of signs that food prices would continue to rise above the dike's top. Item: in Washington last week Senator John H. Bankhead, in a one-man exposition of a legislative bloc at work, blandly predicted to U.S. farmers that the Commodity Credit Corp. would continue for another year its open-purse support of agricultural prices...
...tradition, "Foolish Notion" steers pointedly clear of the many problems presently besetting the world and sets before its audience neat, imaginative comedy with a touch of light sophistication that makes for decidedly good theatre. Instead of tackling the complexities of international intrigue, playwright Barry and his leading lady, Tallulah Bankhead, plunge into Sophie Wing's domestic difficulties, complex and intriguing in their own entertaining...
...long as matters remain witty, "Foolish Notion" is a remarkably edifying Play Javishly spiced with fast patter and an air of fantasy. Tallulsh's Sophie slinks along through three acts, charging each gag line with the solid note of Bankhead innuendo; Joan Shopard, recently of "Tomorrow the World," nearly steals several scenes as Happy, Sophic's quipping adopted daughter. During the rare moments when wit is forgotten and Barry's heady continuity fumbles, Miss Shepard comes to the rescue with extremely competent timing and humor sense for a performer of her years. Once or twice in the opening...
...Tallulah Bankhead, husky, loud-spoken actress who played the lead (1939) in Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes, took umbrage at Playwright Hellman's comment in Moscow: "An actor doesn't make much difference to the play" (TIME, Dec. 4). Quoth Miss Bankhead: "I loathe Lillian. ... A remark like hers is beneath the contempt of an actor. She doesn't know what she's talking about. I'd like to see what some of her plays would be like with a second-rate cast. ... Of course, she's really a wonderful playwright...
...this will save consumers $17,000,000 a year on cotton goods, another $21,000,000 on rayon. And it will distribute between the manufacturer, the jobber and the converter the 5% boost in the cost of cotton goods caused by the amendment of cotton-loving Senator John H. Bankhead to the Stabilization Extension Act (TIME, Oct. 9). In addition, OPAster Bowles hopes that most clothing prices will be rolled back 1.5%. But the main goal is to keep them from rising higher while giving the public something...