Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This is an exceedingly flattering comment, and one can only suppose that our Mr. Cukor knows whereof he speaks, but to which Boston accent does he refor? Is it the long "a" of Beacon Street, the short "a" of Mattapan, the nasal "a" of Chelsea, or the various assorted inflections that are found from Newton to South Boston and from Milton to the Charlestown Navy Yard...
...Walter Ruben and acted by an expert cast. Clive Brook is almost as funny while manipulating his guests into embarrassing situations as Reginald Owen while uttering sleepy roars of indignation at finding himself in a predicament he cannot understand. Diana Wynyard's cool and enigmatic smile gives an accent of high comedy to sequences which might otherwise have been childish. Good shot: Leonard, when he has drained a tumbler of Mr. Latimers whiskey, explaining that he has done so "under protest...
...world problem the present Japanese trade menace is largely a matter of textile goods. Only in the U. S. where Japanese dumping has been receiving more and more attention since the last days of the Hoover Administration is the accent shifted to small manufactured goods-celluloid toys, rubber soled shoes crockery electric light bulbs. The U. S. is by far Japan's greatest market, but from the U. S. Japan imports one-fourth again as much as she sends...
Nancy Lane, hire her as a substitute Princess for $10,000. Fluffing her hair and affecting an accent, the substitute prepares to travel through the U. S. as a lure to bond-buyers. Meantime a crusading publisher (Gary Grant) launches an attack upon Taronian and all other foreign loans. Princess Nancy is offered $5,000 extra to distract the publisher's attention from his front page. She succeeds so well that the two fall in love. A sleuthing reporter and a low-grade actor uncover Nancy's true identity, are on the point of exposing her when...
...cast in the house of a millionaire on the Dover Road, England; the master of the house spends his life trying to aid the oppressed and the love lorn. American ideas of the English are surprisingly amusing, and at times highly annoying, but any breath of an English accent is as nectar to the American public and per se assures the picture of success, as is borne out by the reactions of the audience in the present case. So also any joke which the audience does not catch, goes as an extremely subtle Anglicism and draws hearty guffaws...