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BY TALLULAH BANKHEAD
People tell me that ever since NBC's The Big Show went on the air — last November fifth — everyone in America has been calling each other "dahling" in my honor. "Dahling" is the word I use steadily in my job as misl of ceremonies of the program, this time I've called Bob Hope,' Merman, Margaret Truman, Ed Fred Allen, Gloria Swanson, Ch Boyer, Jimmy Durante and dozen others "darling" — and I mean it e time I've said it on the air been wonderfully cooperati work with, and I particularly Durante. He's an angel and like a actually.
I'll never forget Jimmy on our oj ing show. He sang his song — and t absent-mindedly began rushing out the studio. I yelled, "Come back, c< back — you're not finished yet," beca of course, his part ran through the wl show. After that, he kept losing place in the script, so I'd say, "Here are, darling," and we'd begin ag Later, one of my highest complinr came from Jimmy. During the : show, you see, I'd been scared to d< — I've been in the theater thirty years now, but I'd never had a reg weekly radio show before. And be mistress of ceremonies for a var show lasting an hour and a half cc be quite a strain — particularly bee I was dealing with, so many big-sh But while rehearsals were goinj^^^ the second show, Jimmy tolfla friend of mine, "Get that Tallu — she w fied for the first show, but now she's the hostess with the mostest on the ball!"
Except for that divine Fred Allen, I'd never even worked before with any of the people on The Big Show — and I'd hardly met most of them. But they're all stars, and they've acted like stars, with perfect behavior on everyone's part. You know who was one of the best of them all? Margaret Truman. She was easy and quick, and how I admired the way she held her own with those long-time actors !
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The Big Show, with Tallulah Bankhead : heard Sun., 6 P.M. EST, NBC ; participating sponsors.
The White House called when Margaret Truman sang on Big Show, but the President wanted to speak to Tallu!
"She's the hostess with the mostest on the ball!" said Jimmy Durante about Tallu's femcee talents.
"That divine Fred!" — Tallu's accolade to the witty Mr. Allen. They'd teamed up before on his radio show.
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