Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...late Holbrook Blinn distinguished himself eight years ago. It is about a Mexican millionaire (Leo Carrillo) who, to facilitate his abduction of a cabaret girl (Dolores Del Rio) has her sweetheart (Norman Foster) jailed and removed from the country. All this is done with a superfluity of Mexican accent by Carrillo and Del Rio, and reiterations of clean young Americanisms by Foster, who encourages Del Rio by saying "Be game, kid." In the play these exaggerations made the action partly a parody of border romance. Because the cinema takes itself more seriously, the climax, where the millionaire lets the girl...
Director John Ford avoided the cinematic equivalent of fine writing which usually attaches itself to such ambitious reproductions. Ronald Colman's British accent and pleat-waisted trousers do not fit Arrowsmith's Midwest origins but his performance is valid in other respects. The magnificently, minutely true characterization which Helen Hayes gives to Leora is one of the events of the year. Good shots: rats, outlined in fire, leaving a burning brush village; Leora's reply to Arrowsmith's proffer of marriage: "Have you got a nickel? I want soft music...
...nasal, twangy accent of Alfred Emanuel Smith was described by Professor William Cabell Greet of Barnard College as "coastal," typical of speech everywhere on the Eastern seaboard...
...Mimicry was another well-developed trait, and after every Harvard game the boys had a lot of fun parodying the Cambridge accent, even those with very little English attempting the broad A At that however, Harvard was the Indian idea of perfection and, whether on the football field or in the schoolroom, anything very good was always commented on as 'Harvard style'". --Harvard Alumni Bulletin
People coming from Europe and other countries to us all speak with an accent, but very seldom do you see it joked about as when the Jew speaks. Still I would like to know if they spoke as you printed? (Possibly the Scotch as much...