Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Summing up her impact on London (1923-31), Socialite Columnist Charles Graves says: "She popularized smoking in the days when few nice girls smoked. She killed the stage-door Johnny-he couldn't get through the hundreds of girls outside the stage door . . . She popularized the words 'divine' and 'darling' and bacchanalian parties...
...frenzied girl fans hit their emotional peak in 1930 at her last London play, Let Us Be Gay. They waited in line for 36 hours to get in. When the doors opened, police cordons crumbled under a wild stampede, and some who had been first in line picked themselves up to find the theater full. Halfway through the show they stormed, 100 strong, into the lobby, yelling and screaming, until the bobbies rallied to throw them back...
Throughout her London success, few critics considered Tallulah very seriously as an actress. But her looks were really something. Cecil Beaton called her "... A wicked archangel with . . . carven features . . . Her eyelashes, like a spreading peacock's tail, weigh down the lids over her enormous snake-like eyes . . . She is cadaverously thin ... the most easily recognizable face I know and ... the most luscious . . . cheeks like huge acid pink peonies . . . eyelashes built out with hot liquid paint to look like burnt matches . . . Her sullen, discontented, rather evil rosebud of a mouth is painted the brightest scarlet . . . shiny as ... strawberry...
...Domestic Life. For all her highly publicized love life, Tallulah has had just one engagement and one marriage. The engagement, in London in 1928, was brief. It was virtually all over when her fiance, Count Anthony de Bosdari, told a reporter: "I am the master. I will do the talking...
...Starting an airline for Pakistan between Karachi, Colombo, London and Singapore. Transocean is buying the planes in the U.S., training Pakistan crews at Oakland, and, while they are getting airborne, will fly the routes with its own planes and pilots. Transocean...