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The Prodigal Daughter
Advance Note: Tallulah Bankhead is a panic in her first picture, "Tarnished Lady." That's why you'll want to read this amusing story and find out all about her
TALLULAH BANKHEAD is her right name, but in London she was known as the Alabama Hell-cat, which was doubtless a source of unending pleasure to her. Tallulah is the girl who wouldn't wait for recognition. She went to Europe to woo Fame. Fame didn't have a chance.
For eight years she has held London captive. A Bankhead premiere is the signal for pandemonium, as it is known over there. Over here it would be termed a riot. The natives form queues blocks long, standing in line for days until the gallery opens. After her performances crowds wait outside the stage entrance to see the lady. Reporters are assigned to her as though she were City Hall or the He de France. In London Tallulah is a panic.
I doffed my prophetic robes just after the Wall Street cataclysm, but I would venture the guess that Tallulah is going to be a drawing-card for Paramount in American pictures. Of course it is possible that I was unduly dazzled by Tallulah in person. It is possible that, the screen will fail to capture her magnetic drive. But I have faith in the camAid I've seen Tallulah.
She has been called "the Alabama Hellcat," and liked it! Garbo and Dietrich, watch out! Paramount is calling Tallulah "the woman every woman wants to be!"
era.
At luncheon in gay Astoria, with actors made up to resemble society people and society people made up to re
She has light brown hair, a willowy figure that pleases her, and a slender, knowing face.
By
Rowley Trench
semble actors, Miss Bankhead graciously motioned me to sit at her right. "My better profile," she explained.
She has returned to America to see if the streets are really lined with gold. She is here to do "Tarnished Lady" written especially for her by Donald Ogden Stewart, whose hilarious "Haddocks Abroad" resulted in the sometimes hilarious "Finn and Hattie."
Tallulah Bankhead is energy compact, talking quickly, entertainingly, brightly. Words tumble over themselves in their haste to express her thoughts. "I find pictures delightful, really, because they're new and different. I was definitely fed up on the stage ; the crowds; the parties; the bores; the newspapers. li was all so much the same after each play opened and after each succeeding night of a run. Here, you see, I have different work every day. The sheer novelty of it enthralls me. My friends, I daresay, should be amazed to hear me so enthusiastic. But I am. I am a convert to the great god Cinema."
All this should be read at double quick time to produce the effect Tallulah produces. And then it would be slow.
She came out of Alabama in the early twenties to be chosen one of a group of winners in a beauty contest. There was no sequel, so she embarked for London, having made no mark in the one or two American {Continued on page 120)
In "Tarnished Lady" the super-sophisticate has touching scenes with a baby actor.