Word: cockneyism
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HALF A SIXPENCE is a kind of cut-rate, cockney Hello, Dolly! Tommy Steele is an infectiously beamish entertainer, Onna White's dances burst forth like spring blossoms, and the show's style is to woo rather than...
THEATER On Broadway HALF A SIXPENCE is a kind of cut-rate cockney Hello, Dolly! Tommy Steele is an infectiously beamish entertainer, Onna White's dances burst forth like spring blossoms, and their style is to woo rather than...
...setting is the English resort town of Folkestone. Kipps (Tommy Steele) is an 'umble cockney draper's clerk who comes into a hunexpected inheritance, takes up wif a girl (Carrie Nye) from the local haristocracy and proceeds to get engaged. After a heady spell of high life, Kipps is disillusioned and marries a non-U charmer of a chambermaid (Polly James) from his own class. But his ex-fiancée's caddish brother absconds with Kipps's last thruppence. Presto! An alcoholic playwright whom he once befriended showers him with a handsome percentage...
...sentimental liabilities. But the show is an unpretentiously happy-go-lucky affair. Choreographer Onna White stages one rousing cakewalk number, with the chorus rhythmically seesawing its arms, that bears a remarkable resemblance to the title dance of Hello, Dolly! Imported Star Tommy Steele is a kind of cockney Bobby Morse. He has a boyishly infectious half-moon grin, and his ingratiating style is to woo an audience rather than...
Europeans generally read American strips, but they have produced a couple of sophisticated versions of their own. England's Andy Capp (which also runs in U.S. papers) is a rude little cockney runt who breaks all the comics' rules of decency: he's unable to hold a job, boozes it up, beats his wife. "Andy sets an appalling example for the youth of England," says the London Mirror Group's Editorial Director Hugh Cudlipp, "but he is irresistible." France's Barbarella, an unmistakable likeness of Brigitte Bardot, is an oversexed, underdressed space girl who beds...