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...Manhattan, white-haired Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, 59, Tallulah Banlchead's onetime secretary, who was charged with kiting $4,284 worth of checks and convicted of second-degree grand larceny (TIME, Dec. 24), came into court to hear her sentence: indefinite probation, because of her age and health, instead of a possible six-year prison term. It was fair enough, said Plaintiff Tallulah: "I did my duty as a citizen, the jury did its duty, and now I'm sure the judge has done his. You get so mad you could spit, as they say-you'd like...
With characteristic bad taste, TIME (Dec. 24) compounds and inflates all the vicious innuendo of defense counsel under the heading "Trial by Stage Whisper" [a report of the trial of Tallulah Bankhead's ex-maid, for kiting checks]. Said TIME: "The defense attorney had complained bitterly that there were 'two trials going on in this courtroom.' " Since TIME brazenly endorsed that fiction it should have added . . . that it was conducting a third trial, with me as its target...
...TALLULAH BANKHEAD New York City...
...sorry Tallulah Bankhead received so much unjust publicity in fighting a would-be blackmailer. She has done what any other citizen should...
...sensation-seekers and eyebrow-lifters were tantalized almost beyond endurance three weeks ago, when Tallulah Bankhead's grey-haired, 59-year-old ex-maid, Mrs. Evyleen Cronin, went on trial for larceny in Manhattan. Mrs. Cronin's attorney loudly promised to prove that his client was forced to buy "marijuana, cocaine, booze and gigolos" for the actress, and that she raised Tallulah's checks only to pay for her employer's excesses. But though Tallulah paced like a fevered tigress, in her desire to testify, the defense, equipped with windy oratory rather than facts, refused...