“Tallulah Bankhead … late in her career … was dissed by some pushy ingenue. ‘I could upstage you dahling,’ Tallulah said, ‘without even being on stage.’
“She did, too, by the simple expedient of precariously balancing a champagne glass half-on-half-off a table when she made her exit. The ingenue came on for her big scene, but all eyes were glued to the glass: would it or would it not fall off the table?
“No one knew that she had put sticky tape on the bottom of the glass.”
Roger Kimball, American Greatness, August 20, 2023
“She did, too, by the simple expedient of precariously balancing a champagne glass half-on-half-off a table when she made her exit. The ingenue came on for her big scene, but all eyes were glued to the glass: would it or would it not fall off the table?
“No one knew that she had put sticky tape on the bottom of the glass.”
Roger Kimball, American Greatness, August 20, 2023
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