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Vera Stretz had a bang-up trial. She was represented by stubby, truculent Lawyer Samuel Leibowitz, famed for his defense of the Scottsboro boys (TIME, April 10, 1933). She had an audience of some 300 murder fans, including slinky Actress Tallulah Bankhead. A corps of some of the best talent the U. S. Press could muster looked searchingly into Miss Stretz's Germanic countenance, was not in complete accord as to what...
...rostrum. The hands of the clock (substituted for those stolen last summer) stood erect at 12 when gaunt, bushy-browed Speaker Byrns, a pink carnation in his lapel, whammed down his gavel, brought 366 magpie Members of the House to comparatively silent order. Democratic Floor Leader William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, ill throughout the last session, uprose to request unanimous consent for the House to recess subject to the call of the Speaker so that President Roosevelt might deliver his address on the State of the Union to a joint session of Congress that night. That address...
...Farmer-Laborite in the person of Elmer A. Benson, appointed by Minnesota's Governor Olson to succeed the late Senator Schall (see col. 1). But in many ways the most interesting new face in the 74th Congress will be that of Alabama's Representative William Brockman ("Tallulah's Father") Bankhead, who has sat in the House for 18 years. A year ago. on the day before Congress met, he was chosen Floor Leader of one of the biggest Democratic majorities in House history (TIME, Jan. 14). Same day he went to the hospital with...
...Heilbron; Shuberts, producers) is something, but not gay. It tells the tale of a wife who sets out to reform an erring husband by the time-honored method of flirting with another man, finds the other man more attractive than the husband, runs away with him. And it represents Tallulah Bankhead's third time at bat this season (previous plays: Dark Victory, Rain). While Something Gay affords Miss Bankhead ample opportunity to cuss and cuddle, its dialog is so low-pressure, its scheme so trivial that critics sorrowfully had to credit her with another strikeout. Actress Bankhead is evidently...
...recently had from Hollywood from Frank Capra, the director. Columbia Pictures were planning to make "Lost Horizon," and Capra wired Miss Bankhead that they were going to change the woman missionary in the story to a prostitute, and would she please come. "That's Hollywood for you," smiled Tallulah...