Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...romantic play-Romeo and Juliet-starring Katharine Cornell, does well enough; a largely rhetorical one-King Richard II-starring a then not well-known Maurice Evans, does far better. Hamlet, with John Gielgud, then no name on Broadway, goes over big; with Leslie Howard, a big Broadway name, flops. Tallulah Bankhead cannot last a week in Antony and Cleopatra, Walter Huston cannot last a month in Othello. The simplest answer is almost certainly right: Shakespeare is as popular as his performance...
...Labor Day deadline, A. A. A. A. convened in the balconied grand ballroom of Broadway's Hotel Astor, where Equity was born. Tallulah Bankhead in pink pajamas, Francis Lederer in an open shirt, Katharine Cornell in a white turban, 5,000 equally perturbed showfolk mobilized in the historic chamber to hear their marching orders. Thoroughly enjoying his big moment and appreciative audience, Actor Gillmore intoned: "You have come here prepared for a message of war. Instead I bring you a message of peace...
...Broadway strike of actors in 1919 for their right to have a union, that organization is now called Associated Actors & Artistes of America. A sort of union holding company, Four As has eleven affiliates for stage actors, cinemactors, radio performers, vaudevillians, et al. Last week such affiliated Rats as Tallulah Bankhead, Ralph Morgan, Lawrence Tibbett, Edward Arnold, Fredric March, Binnie Barnes, Wayne Morris dashed by plane and train to Atlantic City, N. J., to gnaw back at expansive Mr. Browne...
Required to protest to Mr. Browne's fellow councilmen in private, indignant Rats fumed publicly to the press. Hottest was Tallulah Bankhead: "The action of Mr. George Browne . . . is an outrageous piece of banditry. . . . On what meat does this our Caesar feed? . . . This stock company Hitler should, must be hobbled. . . ." Unhobbled Mr. Browne did not vote, otherwise participated as one union politician among others. The legitimate theatre, the cinema industry, the financial interests involved lobbied fiercely to get the council to settle matters without a jurisdictional strike of Rats on Brownies or vice versa...
...Actress Tallulah Bankhead's uncle-&-father-hugging act of last fortnight (TIME, July 3) had the effect of winning Uncle John and enough other Senators to restore the Federal Theatre Project to the 1940 Relief Bill. Miss Bankhead should have hugged more Representatives. When the bill went to conference, the House men simply would not warm up. They killed FTP dead, but they did agree to some other Senate generosities. As sent to the President and signed by him sorrowfully ("definite hardship and inequality on ... 8,000,000 if we count in their families...