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Antony and Cleopatra (adapted by Professor William Strunk Jr. from William Shakespeare; produced by Laurence Rivers, Inc.). Last summer 35-year-old Actress Tallulah Bankhead, Alabama-born daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives, married Actor John Emery and announced that she was "going to New York to raise hell." Nobody imagined, however, that Shakespeare was to be included in the party. But last week, after long preparation and a road tour, Tallulah swept into Manhattan's Mansfield Theatre in the traditional gilded brassiere and diaphanous pantalettes of the serpent of the Nile. After watching...
Married. Actress Tallulah Bankhead, 35, daughter of Speaker William Brockman Bankhead of the House of Representatives; to Actor John Emery, 32; in Jasper...
Speaker William Brockman Bankhead . . . . . . LL.D...
...first time in his life House Speaker William Brockman Bankhead watched his daughter Tallulah act in a finished play (Reflected Glory), tearfully observed as the curtain fell: "Parental restraint prevents my gushing. . . ." Before the curtain rose, he signed the $950,000,000 Relief Deficiency Bill...
When the Democratic majority rewarded Joe Byrns's quarter-century of loyal Party service with the Speakership 17 months ago, the New Deal counted on quiet, able Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead of Alabama to help him keep that unwieldy majority marching in line. Leader Bankhead fell ill the day he was elected, did not take over his job until last January. Last week, in its unprecedented situation of being without a Speaker, the House was called to order by Clerk South Trimble less than twelve hours after Joe Byrns had breathed his last...