Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Dusted off this week for presentation at Brattle Hall is an old play of about six years back, "Reflected Glory." In a way it seems a shame that the dust was disturbed, for the play was none-too-good when Tallulah Bankhead starred in it on its last appearance, and it makes a poor vehicle for the stage debut of Gloria Swanson, the well-known screen star. The play deals with the life of a rising actress and her feelings about life in the theatre. She babbles constantly about wanting to marry and have a home...
There will be production difficulties, too. Although such stars as Paul Robeson (who will play Othello at Cambridge and Princeton), Gertrude Lawrence, Tallulah Bankhead, Ruth Chatterton, Jane Cowl and Gracie Fields are scheduled, few Hollywood headliners will have their usual summer fling at legit. Hollywood, going full blast, can't spare them...
Married. Actor John Emery, 37, ex-husband of Tallulah Bankhead; and Dancer Tamara Geva, 35, ex-wife of Choreographer George Balanchine (now the husband of Dancer Vera Zorina); in Beverly Hills, Calif...
...pressagents triumphed in announcing this week's Tallulah Bankhead sketch on the Philip Morris show (Tuesday 8 p.m. E.W.T.). Tempestuous Tallulah had selected a little play called The Road to Jericho, author: Elmer Davis. In no mood to publicize CBS's Newsstar Davis, who shines just as brightly without Miss Bankhead's aid, the NBC boys hid Mr. Davis' light. Read the announcement: "The Road to Jericho, by E. Davis...
...Bette Davis and Janet Gaynor waiting to be picked off as partners. On the walls are gay murals by the theater's top scene designers-Jo Mielziner, Donald Oenslager, Raoul Pène du Bois, Gertrude Lawrence, Eddie Cantor, the dancing De Marcos, the Quiz Kids with Tallulah Bankhead as Quizmaster, are part of the endless floor show. The food is good, and Producer Brock Pemberton, Novelist Carl Van Vechten, Actor Sam Jaffe are among the busboys. And the whole thing is free...