The Birmingham age-herald., 1923-12-04
INTERESTING COMMENT ON
 TABULAR BANKHEAD

Betty Bienville in the Mobile Reg ister has the following comment on Tallulah Bankhead, who is well known in this city and which will be read with interest:
 Knowing how interested you have been in Tallulah Bankhead, daughter of William B. Bankhead, representa- tive from the Tenth district of Ala bama, since we saw her in New York as the star iE "The Exciters, and hearing that letters have been re- ceived recently by Montgomery rela- from Paris, where she was staying for two weeks with Lady Diana Manners, resting from her long en- gagement in "rhe Dancers" the play that Is said to be the dramatic sen sation of London, I am going to steal some parts of it and apologize for the theft at the outset.
 In the London production she. Is supported by Herbert DuMaurier. DUMaurier is also the author of the play. He is the son of George Du- Maurier, the author of '"Trilby.'
 Last year, just before sailing for England, a celebrated dramatic re- viewer, in writing of Miss Bankhead and her work, said that she was the most beautiful woman on the Ameri- can stage. He said that when man first saw her, he would turn and gaze loEg and thouehtfully at his wife, and then sadly shake his head. And not only has she beauty but she is highly intelligent and l original. He said that you could sit working over the problem all day and still you could not picture any
 possible contingency in which any | body could be bored with 'Tallulah -f- l. t.I I m;rers says: "She has magnificent vitality, utter daring and the ability to say increasingly funny things in | that unexpected, golden voice of hers. In England she has been not only | the artistic rage, but the social as | tim to her. It is whispered that the Prince of Wales fled to Canada to | try to forget her charm. Tallulah Banllhead has marvellous beauty, and marvellous talent. She has youth and charm. Sceptres have been | thrown aside for less" All the world knows that, Lady Diana Manners is | England's most noted beauty, and all | London now knows that she is not half as lovely as this Alabama girl, l and I am wondering if there Is not
 tinge of jealousy on the part of | the English beauty when she sees the fuss that is being made over the l American beauty.
 Then some one going on to write 1 about the latter says: Tt seems | only a short time since Tallulah Bankhead came to Montgomery at 1 the age of eight, to live with her aunt, Mrs. Thomas NJ. Owen and go to school to Miss Augusta Woodruff. Even at that age she gave evidence of the talent that has made her one of the most distinguished of the young American actresseA Shortly after she came to Montgomery, the late pr. Thomas M. Owen and Mrs. Owen gave 8 party in honor of Orr vile Wright, who was kere experi- menting at the first flying field that
 was ever in the south, at what Is now Maxwell field. At that party MT. Wright heard the little Tallulah give an original imitation of an old lady-of marked mannerisms, and then and there he confirmed what had long been MT. Owens opinion that she had real genius.
 "Tallulah Bankhead is said by crit ics to have the golden speaking voice of the late Sarah Bernhardt more nearly than any actress has ever had it."