Word: tallulah
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Other famed Bankheads of Alabama: the Speaker's daughter, Actress Tallulah; his elder brother, U. S. Senator John Hollis Bankhead II; his father, the late Senator John Hollis Bankhead, who died...
...ever since 1893. First played by the late great Mrs. Patrick Campbell, the deplorably accessible heroine of this Pinero drama has been variously enacted by Eleanora Duse, Olga Nethersole, Gladys Cooper, Ethel Barrymore. Last week, in Maplewood, N. J., looking buxom as a milkmaid and in fine vocal trim, Tallulah Bankhead demonstrated that there's life in Pinero's old girl...
Telescoped from four into three acts by Producer Cheryl Crawford, directed fairly briskly by Romney Brent, Maplewood's Second Mrs. Tanqueray afforded Tallulah Bankhead plenty of opportunities to show her deft dramatic stuff. As she whirled through her paces, the inevitable squeaks of the revival's old joints were hardly audible...
...lady, overcame a troublesome Garbo trait by observing: "It is difficult to have an evening gown fit properly with the right lines when the person wears low heels." At parties Adrian keeps a keen eye peeled for signs of dowdiness, can be convulsing about it afterwards. Of Tallulah Bankhead he once remarked: "She can wear one more silver fox than any other woman and still look underdressed." Adrian affects not to know the difference between one Paris couturier and another, to dislike ordinary women who copy movie styles. He recommends that the average woman should limit herself to the costumes...
...York World's Fair nearly every day is dedicated to something or somebody. Noel Coward and Tallulah Bankhead have lately had their days; soon Rudy Vallee, Superman, Mrs. Hearst's Milk Fund will have theirs. One day last week it was Philippa Duke Schuyler Day. Dayspring was a bright-eyed, coffee-colored child, not quite nine, who for four years has been an egregious U. S. prodigy (TIME, June...