Word: accented
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Welles plays Falstaff, and his characterization is always good and sometimes excellent Burgess Meredith has the part of Prince Hal, but he seems too boyish in his rendition and not at all gallivanting; furthermore his occasional lapses into a "toity-toid street" accent, ostensibly for lightness, does little credit to Shakespeare's blank verse. John Emery, as Hotspur, has great vitality, but often he palls in tearing his passions to tatters. Morris Ankrum as Henry IV gives a sterling performance throughout, and outstanding in the lighter vein are Gus Schilling, as Bardolph, and John Berry, as Poins...
...erect as a ramrod, he now walks with the aid of a stick. Still a natty and very individual dresser, he prefers striped trousers and a white vest for daytime wear. Though his manner in conversation is kindly, dignified and somewhat remote (he speaks English without trace of an accent), his eyes can still flash like an aging lion's when Poland is mentioned...
...years ago. Last week the Metropolitan revived Thais, in one of the most lavishly costumed productions of its recent years. This time the stripper was Helen Jepson, streamlined Pennsylvania-born soprano. Critics approved Soprano Jepson's singing and her French diction but thought she undressed with a Pennsylvania accent...
...Kreiner Sextet; Victor: 2 sides). Oklahoma-born Composer Harris, once the enfant terrible of the Western prairies, here writes music with a cultivated British accent...
Youngest child of elderly parents, Eliot at Harvard was tense, sensitive and reserved. His Advocate contemporaries say he was English in everything but accent and citizenship. His remarks were quiet, witty, precise but not precious. He smoked a pipe, liked to be alone, carefully avoided slang, and dressed with the studied carelessness of a future dandy...