Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...joined E. Gerli & Co. Although the firm is" primarily a commission house it makes rayon in Italy, and the Gerli family recently assumed control of Belding Heminway, one of the biggest U. S. silk manufacturers. Paolino Gerli is short, very dark, very suave, speaks with a slight accent. He was one of the founders of National Raw Silk Exchange in 1928, and its first president. Silk is not his only interest. He was listed in the roster of stockmarket shorts given out by the Senate fortnight...
...excepting Norman Bel-Geddes, a genius whose accent usually obscures the individuality of the playwrights he stages, Robert Edmond ("Bobby") Jones is the ablest designer of the U. S. theatre. Audiences will long recall his skillful settings for The Green Pastures, Mourning Becomes Electro, The Emperor Jones and a hundred other plays, without having been distracted from the quality of the plays themselves. Robert Edmond Jones, at 28, made a sensation with sets and costumes he designed for Granville Barker's pro duction of The Man Who Married a Dumb Wife. Later he became associated with Arthur Hopkins...
...accent which Director Ernst Lubitsch* gives to scenes like this and the polish with which Young, Chevalier and Charles Ruggles act them, that make them much funnier than they have often been before. The plot of One Hour With You is not startlingly new. Director Lubitsch himself used it before in a silent cinema called The Marriage Circle, but this time he has given it a new informality, with tricks which other Hollywood directors are bound to imitate. Chevalier addresses the audience from time to time and tells them, to make sure that they understand the story, that...
...hands are white, delicate, almost feminine. His clothes run to quiet greys. Off the Senate floor, he is bashful, almost silent. On the floor he makes an impressive figure when he rises to speak. His speeches, however, delivered in a slow deliberate voice faintly touched with a foreign accent, are usually heavy, pedantic, unexciting...
...late Jeanne Eagels acted on the stage) works out well. Durante is worried about his huge and remarkable nose. The nose is worried by the other characters who tweak it, pinch it, slam doors against it. Durante is an urbane but eccentric chauffeur who speaks French with a Brooklyn accent. He gets a chance to use his favorite word when Polly Moran, as a maidservant, rebuffs him with the door. ''You may think that mortifies me," cries Durante. "It spurs me on, it spurs...