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Gaudy Legend. At 47, after three decades in the dazzled public eye, Actress Bankhead is one of the few people in the English-speaking world instantly and unmistakably identifiable by her first name. Her lounging, lionesslike vitality, her insatiable lust for life and her contempt for all forms of humbug have inspired a large body of legend. Her egomania is about as extreme as "the artistic temperament" can produce. She is exhibitionistic, extravagant, self-indulgent, unpredictable-and full of whims, radiant good humor and terrible rages. She is all these things in a very fulltime, wholehearted...
...Andrews) would have fallen for Alma had not her ladylike insistences, her chatter about the spiritual side of love, been too much for him. By the time Alma looks sex squarely in the face, it is too late to win John's love or even arouse his lust: he has kind of taken her words to heart, and settled down with someone else. For Alma, there is the bench in the square and the passing traveling salesman...
Dorothy Heyward has taken the "Emperor Jones" theme of a man who lets his lust for personal power overcome his honest conviction that he is sent from God to set his people free, and turned it into a more familiar setting, with interesting if not startling, results. Behind its exterior shell of the failure of a Negro uprising, "Charleston, 1822" stands as a probable explanation of why before 1863 the slaves were not ready for their freedom...
...talk later with News-Herald Reporter Hal Malone, the Archbishop got down to brass tacks. Said he: "Such demonstrations are accountable for the lust and rape that we read about almost daily . . . You would have to be an iceberg to be in the same room with a semi-nude woman and not be subject to immoral ideas...
...become Tom Dewey's running mate. If the Republicans won, the Vice President would have something more to do than just preside over the Senate. Exactly what Warren had in mind (and what Dewey may have promised him) came out last week. A biography of Warren by Author (Lust for Life) Irving Stone describes the plan...