The Waterbury Democrat., 1936-09-19
In New York
Q iSs6 NEA
nY 5EoRcE ROSS

1ulahn to strangers, 'sTallulah" to intimate friends. She is blonde, beautiful, dynamic and daughter of the Speaker of the House. More over, she is . stage screen star Tn her own right, equally famous in Piceadilly Circus, Hollywood and Broadway.
 Her birthplace Is Jasper, Ala, and she asks no one to pardon her Southern accent. Nor her English accent. Nor her New Yorkese. She speaks in deep, crisp, husky Gar boesque voice and she is. volcanic in her gestures, excited in her speech.
 Tallulah Bankhead, of course. None other than the belle of Jas- per, the toast of Broadway, the gallery goddess of London and ex-Queen of Hollywood. She is back in town to appear in Q new play and they already are barri- cading the stagedoor of the thea- ter. Otherwise, her worshipful admirers will be swarming into her dressing room. For no other Broadway glamor girl has such a personal and ardent following as the turbulent Tailulah.
 TalluIah's Boss They speak of dickervilieis temp estuous leading ladies. Well, when Tallulah planes from Los Angeles to Manhattan, she begrudes the pi- lot an hours delay in Alberquer- que. A small corps of hanmell await her at the hotel. Two phones clang intermittently. Florists boys make overtime deliveries. There are tele- grams, callers, hand-sent messages as soon as she arrives.
 She does not cope with these, but entrusts everything 10 fSithful Edie, who is maid, secretary cofIl- panion, housekeeper and mentor of the Bankhead menage.
 They are irlsephrable: and have been so since Edie tobk charge when the girl from JaspEr became the rage of Londons Mayfair. Edie answers the dooibell and pays the monthly bills and dis- cusses terms with theatlcal pro- ducers. She also supervise her fam ous mistress dressing rom ward robe, orders the meals srid passes judgment over plays.
 And wouldn't" ENe proud- ly states, Ego to work flr anybody else at any price," B%ides, Edie couldn't adjust herself a slower pace.
 MasterfuI Servants
 Tn fact, never expect to ind Q servile, headbent servarE in . the- atrical household. They are not the type. Although George M. Cohan's Japanese butler, valet and facto. turn extraordinary is iIdispensable, he is not exactly a NiIb0nese Jee-
 yes. On baseball mates, he is at invariable odds with IS boss and has been known to beedne stirly for days because of a discrepancy in scores. He is with the. Song and Dance Man always, aiai last season MT. CohAn gave him a part in q new comedy he wrote
 Legendary among hdlsekeepers is the stately lady who gtards the do- nestle affairs of AlfR@ LAlht and Lynne F'ontaine. She 5 absolute in her authority on any culinary sub- feet and will not be stirred from Q recipe of hers under direct threat or sweet cajolery.
 I'm told that the McClintics' housekeeper rules he wards with an iron hand, that he addresses Miss Cornell as "Kate" when the First Lady of the stag goes out iii- | to a cool day without ape, that she
 is adamant about pinctuality at meals.
 Browning FEiendship
 A New York daily lHs been pgipt- ing small ads of a L0td0H firm that offers grandstand andbleacher seats at "box OfIace" prices bk the Coroll- ation Of King Edward VIII in 1887. Professional first nigItefs, ltlFed by
 an event of such magnitude, have already requested reservations for the Colorfiil spectacle And 60 has Arthur Schwartz whd could attend as complimentary guest if he
 were patient.
 MT. Schwart2 IS thu young tune smith who has wfittn numerous popular songs and a lcupie Of sue cessfui musical shows Last year he won the friendship C the King then the Prince of Wales. Mfr.
 Schwartz's future mil will uIa- doubtedly contain a formal invl- l tation to his royal Eiend's inasi- gural as monarch Of th6 empire.
 But, to be sure of hii location, the
 songwriter prefers to reserve his ..Yn ..S rsuuv tt