Word: accents
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Fiske's rapid, casual delivery's, as ever, expert and sometimes unintelligible. Of the tricks of emphasis and accent she is still past-mistress. In this disappointing play she is accompanied by another oldtimer, Wilton Lackaye, who made mesmerist Svengali famous (Trilby, 1895), who returns, after a three-year illness, to do an excellent bit as the exasperated Judge...
Douglas Fairbanks Jr. was born in 1907 to his father's first wife, Anna Beth Sully, daughter of a soapmaker. He went to various schools in Paris and London, learned to talk good French and heard enough Englishmen talk to fabricate with fair success the English accent he uses in The Careless Age. Partly because his father did not want him to be an actor, he studied sculpture and painting for a while and, like most expensively educated young men, wrote some poetry that was never published. He worked in a few pictures as an extra and showed...
...human telephone. Maddened by things he heard over the wire, the husband finally went out to slay the other man. This story has now been made into a sound cinema. The unseen lover appears, but to no advantage. Jeanne Eagels as the wife employs a ridiculous English accent, the action is turgid, the photo-graphs dull. Silliest shot: Frederic March taking time out to suppress his justifiable jealousy...
...York. Herman Rittner (alias John De Leon, John Bennett, John Meyers, Joseph Gunay, Robert Schmidt, Edward Paulsen, Nick Swansen), 45, 5 ft. 7 in., 133 lb., blue eyes, foreign accent, for grand larceny. A one-job-a-year man he hires out through an agency as a window-washer steals as much as $50,000 worth of jewelry at a scoop. Crime is his only vocation. Police want him for a $30,000 "window-washing" robbery last year...
...should hear my high class English accent. Hot stuff...