Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...entertaining. The fact that it has sparkle and distinction is almost entirely attributable to blithe, blonde, beauteous Jeanne Aubert, the French comedienne whose husband (Packer Nelson Morris of Chicago) lately sought to enjoin her from taking part in theatricals. Audiences were delighted with her genuine Franco-American accent,* her thoroughgoing naughtiness, her lip-twisting method of vocal delivery -first brought to fame when she popularized the Parisian songlet Si Tu Vois Ma Tante...
Definition of the "ideal accent" for English-speaking, by Prof. F. G. Blandford in a lecture last week at Cambridge University: "One that betrays neither your mother's birthplace nor your father's income...
...specifically credited advertising with the greater portion of American Tobacco's 1930 success. He referred proudly to the editorial quality of his advertising, judged that it was effectively competing, in reader interest, with the non-advertising columns of the publications in which it appeared. Not surprising was his accent on newspaper advertising, since the Lucky Strike campaign has been essentially a newspaper effort, supplemented by magazine pages but relying upon its daily appearance for its greatest effect. Mr. Hill added that his 1930 advertising appropriation had been increased over 1929 by $2,300,000; an increase which would give...
...Author. Gabrielle Colette, 57, foremost living French woman writer, was born in the provinces of bourgeois parents, still speaks French with a Burgundian accent. Onetime barnstormer, dancer, Colette draws, writes music, has recently written a ballet for Composer Maurice Ravel. She knows so much about food that even the French consider her a gourmet. Animal-lover, she keeps wild dogs, wild cats in her Paris apartment. She reads very little. Short, thickset, she has wood-colored hair, long grey slanting eyes, speaks in a deep alto. Other books: Chéri, La Vagabonde. La Naissance du Jour, L'Entrave...
...Notorious Affair (First National). Billie Dove's figure and the clipped accent and expressive eyebrows of Basil Rathbone are the only acceptable components of this cinema. It is an awkward, slow account of the love-affair of an English society woman and a poor musician. People who saw Adolph Menjou in Fashions for Love will understand whence comes the idea for A Notorious Affair, but not how the wit and sophistication that distinguished the Menjou show were eliminated from this imitation. Silliest shot: women swarming about the musician's carriage when he drives up to Albert Hall...