TALLULAH LEAVES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 17, 21 January 1933, Page 5 (Supplement)

TALLULAH LEAVES.

FAREWELL TO HOLLYWOOD.

GREAT ACTRESS WHO FAILED.

Miss Tallulah Bankhead is leaving Hollywood. Her contract with Paramount has not been renewed, and she 2* said to be returning to New York to appear in a stage play. Miss Bankliead's career in pictures has puzzled all Hollywood. She went therewith a great London reputation, and was immediately accepted as one of thglamorons sirens of the screen, a potential rival to Miss Garbo and Miss Dietrich.- It was recognised that she had beauty, personality, and talent, all of a rare and distinguished order, and a voice of husky charm.

Paramount, even if some of her stories were weak, must be credited with the best intentions. She was starred from the beginning and given part after part designed to display her talent to advantage—"My Sin," "Tarnished Lady," "The Cheat," "Thunder Below" and "The Devil and the Deep."

She never failed to give a good performance, and, indeed, showed steady | improvement, shedding some of the mannerisms which had coma to be accepted as "Tallulaliisins" by lier more frenzied admirers, but irritated the great majority. In her last two pictures, "Thunder Below" and "The Devil and the Deep," she gave exhibitions of restrained emotional acting whicn few other actresses in Hollywood could hare attempted.

Yet, so odd is the film public, none of tier pictures (with the exception of the three-star "De u il and the Deep") has been the great commercial success that some people expected. Which is a great pity. The screen can do with sotnwomen of distinction.