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Private Lives (by Noel Coward; produced by John C. Wilson) was, 17 years ago, a brittle comedy in which Gertrude Lawrence and Noel Coward deftly misbehaved. Last week it became a vehicle-a sort of battering ram-for Tallulah Bankhead. Miss Bankhead, with Donald Cook (Claudia, Skylark), puts on quite a show, though few would call it Private Lives...
Newsmen worried some about Tallulah Bankheaid, though not as much as when she used to keep a pet lion cub that nipped interviewers' shins. Tallulah was back on Broadway to play in Noel Coward's old (1931) Private Lives. She received the press flanked by a Hungarian shepherd dog, a miniature Pekinese and an aquamarine parakeet named Gaylord...
...amid strikes, riots, unemployment, sudden death. She has two children whom she mentioned in her fiery Civil War speeches urging Spain's women to put the cause above husbands and children ("it is better to be the widow of a hero than the wife of a miserable coward...
Last winter Colonel James Coward, Air Attaché at the U.S. Embassy in Bagdad, took off from Frankfurt in a C-47 to fly back to his post. Aboard were three crew members and two boxer dogs that Coward had bought. Coward wanted to refuel in Athens, but the field was fogged in. Istanbul and Ankara, when he approached, were also fogged in. His gas gone, he set the plane's automatic pilot and bailed out with his crew. Lacking parachutes for the dogs, he left them in the plane...
Feuding Man. Earl broke with Huey, spoke of him publicly as a "big-bellied coward" and set out to oppose him. It was like trying to stop a locomotive by lying across the tracks. In 1932, when Huey went about setting up his puppet governor -one O. K. Allen, a Winnfield sawmill operator who had once lent him $500-Earl ran for lieutenant governor on the opposing ticket, and was soundly licked...