The Waterbury Democrat., 1939-08-08
well meaning

Summer2 Does not the neat get you down? Can't you get away to the mountains or the shore for a month? I think it's dreadful
 T could well be spared their condolences, well-meaning though they may be. For the first time since I've been in the theater I'm in a New York hit that is 50 suc- cessful that 1t can run through 8 blazing summer--and my friends are sorry for me
 i've spent many 8 summer these last ten years at the shore, in the mountains, even in 8 New York apartment, but not from choice. I'd have given my right arm for a good play, and have taken my chances on the ther- mometer. The hot weather get me down? Say, I'd play a season at the equator were assured of another Little Foxes"
 A WHIRLWIND
 OF VITALITY
 Alabama's celebrated daughter is a lady of vast enthusiasms. Someone has said that were her her vitality harnessed, enough power could be generated to move an army corps across the country. Seemingly, she is tireless. Inter- ested in a cause, she throws her. self into 1t with the frenzy of 8 medieval crusader. Not so long ago she stormed the United States Senate to fight for the continua- tion of the Federal Theater.
 Just now her passion is the New York Giants. Even though they are now resident in the second division in the National League, Tallulah will brand as heretic and a spy any gentleman bold enough to hint that the Giants may not win the pennant. Bar ring matinee days, she sits in a box directly opposite the Giant dugout at all home games of the Terrymen, cheering them on from the first out to the last. Recently she brought the entire Giant team, players and their wives, ex- ecutives and sports writers to @ performance of "The Little Foxes" then entertained them with a buf- fet supper on the stage after the play.
 Tallulah, tawny of hair, vibrant and explosive, offers no problems to the interviewer. Ask her a question and the answer, quick, pointed and barbed, comes forth in a torrent of words. Did Miss Bankhead ever place a bet?
 Place 8 bet? had sixteen horses running for me all over the country at last Wednesday s matinee, and Rose, that's my maid, had her ear glued to the radio in my dressing room so that I could get the results at the in- termissions. Then the radio was shortcircuted or something and had to phone fourteen bookmakers for the results. Was I in dither?" BEST PLAY
 OF CAREER
 The electric Tallulah is high in her praise of Herman Shum- lin, director and producer of "The Little Foxes"
 "Shumlin is the best director I've ever worked with" she said Nothing sentimental or sugary about his direction. He gets every last drop of merit out of a play and will work for hours and hour. on a single scene In rehearsal. we occasionally had differences ol opinion about how a line should be read, how an exit or entranc, should be made. He never get! arbitrary about such things bu will sit down and give his poin of review his reasons, with infin ite patience. Usually he won m, over, for he doesn't engage in an, idle experiments. He has plotted everything out in his mind lonl before any of us were called 10 rehearsal"
 To say that Miss Bankhead happy in "The Little Foxes,' Is tn height of understatement. Lon recognized as one of our greates and most eloquent actresses, eve since her return from ten years o success on the London stage sh has been the victim of bad play --and shortlived ones. The lit tie Foxes" sees her (and all tn New York critics concurred) giv probably the best performance o her career.
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