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More often than not, some of the best offstage Broadway humor involves one of the most famed Broadway characters-Tallulah Bankhead. Last week the latest Bankhead story was making the rounds from Lindy's to Sardi's. Tallulah, it seems, was stopped on Fifth Avenue by a Salvation Army lass shaking a tambourine for a holiday handout. Tallulah dipped into her handbag and produced a $50 bill. "Don't even bother to thank me, dahling," she growled as she dropped the bill into the tambourine. "I know what a perfectly ghastly season it's been...
...ever heard," exclaimed Playwright Moss Hart, "of theater folk giving a party for a critic?" Last week, nonetheless, Broadway's brightest luminaries took over Sardi's with the sole unprecedented aim of honoring one of the enemy: the New York Times's gentle, erudite Brooks Atkinson, 63, dean of U.S. drama critics. Said Co-Sponsor Paula Strasberg, wife of Actors' Studio Boss Lee Strasberg: "It was a party given with love, to let Brooks know what theater people think...
While most critics become crabbier with age, Veteran Atkinson seems to some theatergoers to have mellowed. After the Times covered the Sardi's party in its theater-review format under the headline FOR (NOT BY) BROOKS ATKINSON, some readers wondered how he could bring himself to rap another play. Their fears proved groundless. That night Critic Atkinson left the opening performance of Norman Krasna's Who Was That Lady I Saw You With? (see THEATER), strode two blocks to the Times and neatly scribbled a panning review...
Afterwards, rooters swarmed over Choreographer Robbins, who could only mutter "Thanks, thanks" as he wandered in a happy daze backstage. The chic mob then swept on to Sardi's, finally swarmed to a full-blast party given by balding, burly Producer Roger Stevens at Park Avenue's Ambassador Hotel. There the dark-haired girls and long-sideburned boys of the cast gulped champagne, danced to music from My Fair Lady...
...Although he has played to SRO in London (twelve weeks) and in Glasgow (eight weeks) and has never laid an egg anywhere, there is some apprehension among his supporters about New York City. Praying circles all over the world will pray all night, opening night, like actors in Sardi's after a premiere...