The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-03-08

In, the prOuuc- er)-the audience-my husband (John Emery, an actor)-my dad New York ="
 She rambled on in that husky, staccato, trilling voice of hers, greeting Edie-the faithful secre- tary who has been with her for years ordering her dinner from a menu card, warbling, Hello" to 8 couple of visitors.
 "Iu eat light tonight I idolize Herman do you play bridge, honey We play at hom every night after the show. |. I almost didn't get the part, you know. ."
 I got three words in edge-wise, Flows that, Tallulah?" The em- pestuous belle from Huntsville, Ala, changed from the couch to the chair. well, they sent for me-" she said, land asked if I was interested in the part. But they wanted to think it over. They thought I might be too young.
 Too Young?
 "Too young! I'm 37, and you can look it up if you don't believe it. When was 29, I told dad that I was going to be 29 for the next 10 years. But I gave it up after I was 30.
 "Well, Herman and Lillian Oil- lian Hellman, author of the The Little Foxes) thought it over. They took a day to do 1t. I kept my fingers crossed. wanted to play in this. I wanted more than anything in the world to play in this. Edie, I'll have the cream of tomato soup. Here's your drink, dahling -.
 Herman and Lillian came back the next day and said, We want you to be in this was mahvel- ously happy. I felt the way did when Willie Vaughan took me out to lunch and said he was sorry that he objected to my playing Sadie Thompson in Rain in Lon- don.
 "You know, he kept me out of 1t there. Then he saw me in arl- other play and changed his mind. Willie Vaughan was a darling. But I was crazy about the Little Foxes And Herman was the best dear of 8 director I've ever had. He's 8 genius and he's sweet and kind and :"
 Actress, Broke
 Tallulah's dinner had arrived in a hot tray from across the street. She whipped right into it. Edie hovered Loyalty in the background with pepper and salt shakers and a coffee percolator.
 "It's the satisfaction of doing something that seems important and creative" she said, land I've waited a long time for 1t. I've never. really had a magnificent play like this one.
 And waiting around was ex- pensive. I've never really made any money from the theater. I've never really made any money since they paid me $5,000 a week in Hollywood. Just looking around hopelessly for good play once had me worried down to 78 pounds. I was terribly depressed and ill, and really, dahling, was worried about those $25-a-day hospital bills. ..
 "Mah dad thought this was the best thing I've done. He (Tallu- lah's renowned father is Speaker Bankhead of the House) came to Baltimore with some of his sena- tors to see it and he came back and hugged me afterward. And he's honest about my acting. He hasn't liked everything I've done on the stage. And he said so. :. ; South's Cyclone
 Thus, Tallulah, the faxen, ,-hair- ed, excited belle of the South who went from Broadway where she didn't make much of a stir to Lon- don, where she did, and thence to Hollywood which she'd rather forget, and back to Broadway where she now reigns as the stages most glamorous lady. Mar riage, a romantic climax to the whirlwind courtship of Emery, hasn't subdued her. She is as vio- lent in her happiness as she was in her melancholy. Her conversa- ton is cyclonic. Her devotion to her father, the Speaker of the House, is idolatrous.
 The last time called upon Tal- lulah happened to be the birthday of her mother, Eugenia Sledge, 8 famed beauty of the South who died when Tallulah was an infant.
 I joined Tallulah in a cham pagne toast to the sentimental oc- casion. Then some visitors came