Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pilot the sheet. Among those he chose were Editor Herman Suter, a Pennsylvanian, whose only Southern viewpoint was gained while a football star at Sewanee: an ex-AP-er, Smith, whose Yankee tang was all-too-revealing, as managing editor: a chief editorial writer . . . who had a Harvard accent. I was a cub reporter, imported from Washington where I had worked with Suter. Even my Washington accent was too mildly Southern to fit in well in Nashville. Those were still the Damned Yankee days...
With a rich continental accent, a dapper Italian Count for her manager and a lady-like reticence about her private affairs, Josephine Baker, Negro dancer of Paris, returned to Manhattan to exhibit her acts in a new Ziegfeld Follies. When she left the U. S. ten years ago, she was practically unknown. Daughter of a St. Louis department store porter, she had run away from home, earned $25 per week clowning in the chorus of Shuffle Along...
Herbert Marshall hasn't done anything as refreshing as "Accent on Youth" since the halcyon days of "Trouble in Paradise" with Miriam Hopkins. This latest vehicle is about a middle-aged playwright who falls in love with a girl of twenty-six, but doubts his ability to hold her against the onslaught of youth. And the onslaught is not long in arriving-in the form of a Princeton...
...powerful and biting "The Children's Hour," which unfortunately leaves a bad taste in the mouth. The year's Pulitzer Prize play is rather a weak sister, as it was a compromise candidate, "The Old Maid." The other four plays are undistinguished, run-of-the-mill comedies and melodramas, "Accent on Youth," "Lost Horizons," Britisher Van Druten's "The Distaff Side," and Kauffman's tourde-force play given backwards, "Merilly We Roll Along." However there was probably nothing more important to substitute in place of one of these four, except possibly the hilarious saga of a bersek British explorer...
...York, Bernadine did little more than acquire a stage accent and understudy a star or two. This diction she had to discard that day in Chicago when she tried out with Don for the NBC Empire Builders program. There were a few hundred other applicants, but Don and Bernadine were chosen, and they acted together for a long time in Empire Builders. Then Bernadine struck out for herself...