Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clipped speech that often give her voice an ingenuous quality, and seem wholly at odds with a New Orleans drawl; but it is to Miss Humphrey's credit as a concentrated performer that she is the only member of the company who has made any attempt to master the accent problem...
William Swetland as Mitch is gentle and loving, though one would wish that he had made even an attempt at the accent. In smaller parts, Samuel Waterson is sensitive and quite touching as the young collector, and Stanley Jay makes something truly spine-tingling out of a brief bit as a flower seller...
...their line readings and in their movements, to convey any real feeling. Marilyn Rawlins as Mrs. Crochet fails less than the others. But the largest share of the blame should be laid at the feet of director Marston Balch, who has utterly failed to produce any unity, either of accent or of movement or of relationships in this performance. Tom Davis' picturesque and technically impressive set deserves high praise...
Such tropical troubles only accent the purpose of the three men who head the paper: Managing Director Edward P. Glover, 35, a former Sydney Morning Herald subeditor; Sydney Businessman Stanley L. Eskell, 41, who put up most of the $74,000 starting capital; and A. E. Stephens, 40, onetime Morning Herald reporter, and Post editor since...
...other Englishman hate or despise him," and as up-to-date as a London councilor's remark: "Every man carries his caste mark in his mouth." But last week, with diction and elocution classes flourishing throughout Britain and the BBC spreading its own slightly precious brand of proper accent into every home, caste-conscious Britain was still confronted by an unexpected phenomenon of the welfare state: equality of opportunity had eased the economic tensions in Marx-proclaimed "class conflict," but it had led to a sharp increase in what the sociologists call "status conflict"-in other words, snobbism...