Word: accent
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Betrayal (Paramount). Rendered ineligible for U. S. talkies by his thick German accent, Emil Jannings left Hollywood last week.* His last U. S. picture, this one about a Swiss burgomeister and his wife, is in some ways his best. The burgomeister has two little sons. He finds out after his wife's death that one of them was fathered by someone else. After thinking about it until his mind accepts as sensible the suggestions put into it by frustrated instincts, he works out a scheme for getting rid of the son who is not his. The camera does...
...assailants escaped leaving no trace but some empty cartridge shells and rumors of a Polish accent. Professor Valdemaras was unhurt, carried his wounded little grandnephew into the theatre lobby, later sat by the dying child's bedside all night long. Early in the morning, the Professor-Prime Minister returned wearily to begin another day's work at the Foreign Office...
...William was a poet and a mystic who spoke the truth in strange symbols, who spoke frankly about God and Jesus Christ and Shelley, taking them all so seriously that he seemed often to blaspheme. The simple villagers, understanding, caressed him with their sweet Devon accent, but their patroness, wealthy spinster, bristled with gossip about him. Alarmed for her daughter, Mary's mother discouraged William's presence at the manor. Hurt, miserable, William withdrew...
...movies have made the American nation conscious of clothes and polite manners, it is also claimed that the talkies will bring the country's speech to a high standard. Perhaps it is not too much to expect that the talkies will give the American people a solidarity of accent. In the hands of a few producers lies the fate of the nation's tongue...
...Prime Minister of England. Each of these worthies was scheming to prevent the sale of West Iranian minerals to either of the others, though nothing was further from the confused thoughts of poor Mallard. Harassed, indignant, he escaped to France, only to be welcomed by Sleuth E (with an accent...