Word: accents
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...police department, Otto Fichl has been charmed, massaged, initiated, ordered to take ''treatments," scraped about the ears, hexed, advised to leave the country, psychoanalyzed, fiddled with by medicine men, gypsies, witches, etc., etc. When put upon the trail of a suspect, Otto Fichl uses his native German accent, saying "I vunder vat is der trouble." Stupid in appearance, equipped with a worker's badge, it is his business to be the dupe of any faker. After paying "Dr." Kejna $5 for telling him that he needed $168 worth of dentistry, Otto Fichl became worried, visited a reputable...
Carl Eric Wickman, 42, chief Greyhound advisor, is at present Chairman of the Pacific Greyhound System where he is coordinating things. A great broad-shouldered man who has not lost his Swedish accent, he prefers Eric to Carl, loves sport, lets no one make him write letters, whistles during conferences...
SARAH & SON (Ruth Chatterton)- Mother-love with a German accent, finely acted...
SARAH AND SON (Ruth Chatterton)- Mother-love with a German accent, finely acted...
...vigorous and moving story, properly told. It covers a long period, and the arrangement of time, perhaps the most difficult problem in building a cinema, is worked out naturally in the physical and mental changes of the central character, Ruth Chatterton. She uses, for instance, a German accent, very marked in the beginning, then less strong, finally no more than the faint shadow of a guttural. Her mood, tuned with her circumstances and what she knows about life, alters from fierce, bewildered anguish, to a cold, shrewd determination to get even with the world, and then to a tolerant, warmly...