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...Senator may talk as long as he can. By yielding to co-operative colleagues for long involved questions or side speeches, he can, under the rules, hold the floor almost indefinitely. Thus, two months ago, when he was filibustering against the anti-lynching bill, Alabama's Senator Bankhead effectively tied up Senate proceedings for a whole afternoon without speaking more than 500 words. Last week, however, it soon became apparent that Senator Long was going to get no assistance or relief from other Senators, was in fact going to be held strictly to the rules. He could yield only...
...Shuberts, producers) is something, but not gay. It tells the tale of a wife who sets out to reform an erring husband by the time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently having...
...Returned to committee, with instructions that it be reported back by May 12, the Bankhead Farmers' Home Corporation bill for creation of a $1,000,000,000 Government corporation to help tenants and sharecroppers buy farms. Said Virginia's Byrd: "This is the most loosely and crudely drawn measure ever submitted to the Senate...
...Life is bound by no censorship, so why should the stage, which attempts to portray life, be censored?" Tallulah Bankhead, interviewed last night at the Plymouth Theatre, was giving her opinion of the move to "clean up the stage and screen...
...Miss Bankhead was highly amused at an offer she has recently had from Hollywood from Frank Capra, the director. Columbia Pictures were planning to make "Lost Horizon," and Capra wired Miss Bankhead that they were going to change the woman missionary in the story to a prostitute, and would she please come. "That's Hollywood for you," smiled Tallulah...