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...theater on Broadway. Now there is one: the Uris Theatre, with 1,896 seats, at the base of a new 50-story office building. To celebrate its opening, a crowd of Broadway luminaries-including Ethel Merman, Thornton Wilder, Fred and Adele Astaire and a five-year-old girl named Tallulah Bankhead 2nd (the star's great-niece)-showed up to watch a new musical, Via Galactica. They also searched a gold-lettered list to see who was among the 123 names on Broadway's first hall of fame. First on the list: Playwright-Director George Abbott...
...role of Cleopatra has defeated almost all actresses who have essayed it. Among Americans, only Rose Eytinge was in full command of the part in the 19th century. When the play was mounted in 1937, the late John Mason Brown began his review with the celebrated comment, "Tallulah Bankhead barged down the Nile last night as Cleopatra--and sank." In modern times, only Katharine Cornell has been highly acclaimed by both critics and public (in the 1947-48 season), and even she was somewhat over-rated. (British acresses have managed only a little better...
...Died. T.C. Jones, 50, one of show business' greatest female impersonators; of cancer; in Duarte, Calif. Jones had studied for the ministry and done a hitch in the Navy before crashing Broadway with his imitations of Tallulah Bankhead, Bette Davis and Luise Rainer in New Faces of '56. After that, he swished his way to further success in nightclubs and on television. "Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman," Jones once boasted. "When I pulled off my wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly...
...Tallulah seems an unpromising town for a black police chief, Zelma Wyche, 52, at first glance seems even more unpromising as an agent of amelioration. A Tallulah resident most of his life, he has been the town's most active and noisy agitator for racial justice. His attitudes have hardly altered in office. His mannerisms grate on white nerves. He hails white people by their first names, criticizes without a qualm Tallulah's white civic leadership and unabashedly seeks personal publicity...
Good Job. Tallulah and Wyche make a volatile mixture, but surprisingly, there has been no explosion. Whites have accepted their new police chief with sullen oaution. From some whites, he is even beginning to win a grudging respect. Despite his flamboyance, Wyche has moved discreetly. He has equalized his force at six blacks and six whites, besides himself, and intends to maintain a balance. Integrated pairs usually man patrol cars. "Now blacks and whites make arrests together, so there's no favoritism," he says, puffing on one of his ever-present Roi-Tan cigars. Wyche and his black cops...