Word: accents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Professor Okada's especial interest lay in the teaching of classes, and he attended Philosophy A and English 11B, a course in Milton. In a special interview to a CRIMSON representative, he expounded his views of the University in the purest of English, albeit with a pronounced foreign accent. At the explanations of the reporter, he constantly interjected, "So-so?" and then took the utmost pains to make his statement clearly understood...
...choirs, three hundred strong, of young voices fresh-timbred, full-throated, plastic, susceptible: sopranos of luster, altos velvet-piled, the striding richness of basses, the bright ascent of tenors. Two choirs schooled also in the usual and the exceptional virtues of choral singing; then practised in this music, every accent and modulation, every gradient and climax, had become a free, full speech...
...inescapable romantic element centers about Harry Fender, collar advertisement masquerading as a U. S. lieutenant. He loves Doris Patston, French flower-seller with an English accent. She is gracious, with a cool, reassuring voice, nimble limbs, modish good looks. The diligent Sigmund Romberg has drained off another resonant score to match his The Student Prince (TiME, Dec. 15). There is a military chorus to boom close harmony and rumble rifles. Florenz Ziegfeld has window-dressed the scenes far above the usual art-calendar level. The book has been only partially translated from the lumbering German. It would lose momentum...
...life in the cunning of his Uncle Nevil, diabolical usurper. Murder creeps by night; Anticlea Loring (foundling, not blood-cousin to David) has flaming red hair and a high temper; wedding bells peal over the bad uncle's grave. The minor characters do not quite catch their Dickensian accent, but Farnol is Farnol through the thickest of thick and the gayest of thin...
...successful. The general movement of the performance was perhaps a little slow, an impression which was accentuated by the length of time between the act. To the Frenchman, there were many intonations in the language of the actors that were not entirely French. In two roles, however, this slight accent was most appropriate, since they were supposed to be Americans. Outside of these few criticisms, unlimited praise should be given to the young girls for their intelligence, animation and discriminating taste, and to the young men for their ease, their stage presence, and the almost professional manner in which they...