Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
BANKHEAD TO COME
BACK TO US. TO ENTER TALKIES
Daughter of Representative
Acclaimed as London'S.
Most Popular Actress.
Happy Not to Be in Love,
Brings Home Maid and
Priced Portrait.
py the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
BIRMINGHAM, England, January g.
-Tallulah Bankhead, slim and blonde,
with soft Alabama accent, who came
to Piccadilly and made a hit after
Broadway had refused to take her seri-
ously, appeared here tonight-for the
last time, she said, on the English
stage.
Her farewell to England was:
PLUCK and luck, the bromide boys,
have just as much to do with success
on the stage here as they have in
America. And I've never had great
part yet"
Will Enter TaIkies.
Miss Bankhead-named Tallulah after
her grandmother, who was named
after Tallulah Falls, in Georgia-haS
sold her little house made out of a
garage on Berkeley Squareand is sailing
January for home and the talkies.
I'm so excited / haven't slept for
three nights" she said I'm glad I'm
not in love. A heavy romance, on top
of going home, would just be more than
l could stand"
Eight years ago, Miss Bankhead
sentative and a niece of a Senator, de-
cided that on Broadway she was Just
another actress" So with no contracts
but plenty of grit she packed up and
came to London.
London Success Achieved.
For some years now she has been
probably the most popular actress in
the capital. They stand around the
stage doors to see her come out.
Il think / could have gotten ahead
in RJouu Vnrk II I'd cfavad there " she
said tonight But / think it might
have been tougher. didn't even have
a contract when came over here; only
determination to get on in spite OF
everything.
well, I did get a part, and found
English audiences liked me. Possibly
it was because was an American
something a little different.
English audiences are more tolerant
and friendly than American audiences
They have personal interest in your
welfare-and, if they like you, you're
all set.
Luck and Beauty insufficient.
New York audiences are more stub
born, more critical. / think it is be-
cause they are more sophisticated
harder, though not more intelligent.
But after all, it isn't audiences-it's
yourself. They used 10 call II luck
Now they cali it the breaks The
breaks that count are the breaks you
fashion for yourself.
Luck and beauty are not enough
Unless you have talent, you might as
well knit socks. The public will find
you out Beauty is a handicap with
out intelligence behind it"
Next to her excitement over going
home, Miss Bankhead is most interested
in the kind of parts she will get in
American talking pictures.
Prizes Maid and Portrait.
eve never had a great part yet" she
said. "T think that's still to come
There is only one great part for every
actor, though-and some of us never
get it."
Miss Bankhead gained her popularity
with British audiences when she Gre
ated the role of Iris March in Michae
Arlen's Green Hat" But she never
liked that part.
Slender, blue-eyed, still in her twenties
she has kept her Dixie accent. And the
things she prizes most-an English
maid and portrait by Augustus John
she's taking along home.
Miss Bankhead's father is a United
States Representative from Alabama
and her uncle recently defeated j
Thomas Hehin for the Senate from
| that State.