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...Actress Tallulah Banlchead switched to philosophy, found it so smooth that she fashioned a 120 proof pousse-café for readers of Esquire: On Elvis: "I hear that he's good to his mother and father, and I don't think for one moment that he's conscious of what he's doing." On sex: "We have it on the brain too much. That's no place for it." On the deity: "My own belief is actually very simple. I believe that if there isn't but one God, there...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Jack Benny plays host to Tallulah' Ed Wynn, Julie London and Tommy Sands...
...look like a clown riding to a circus!" Mummy would scream if Diana hit an off note in her dress. "Sometimes," says Diana, recalling her mother's Grade Square duplex, "I was brought down to be introduced to Miss Gertrude Stein or Mr. Michael Arlen or Miss Tallulah Bankhead or the Duke of Alba." Barrymore relations showed up. too. "Aunt Ethel'' came to dinner, sipped lavishly, slipped and fell upon the floor. "Is Aunt Ethel very sick?" Diana asked. "It's just a Barrymore headache," answered Mummy...
...Tallulah, often enough, turns out to be amusingly misguided, where everything else in the production is hopelessly misbegotten...
Eugenia is a curious production scarcely in keeping with James. It has been staged as though Tallulah were in the presence of nothing but waxworks, while she herself performs as if completely surrounded by leopards. Turning a pastel into a circus poster, Tallulah, her personality crackling like a whip, her voice sounding like a bull fiddle, gurgles and snorts and snarls. It is all on occasion forceful, but in general it may well set a record for incongruity that only something like Mae West as Snow White...