Word: cockneyism
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...think this is seamy and sordid, you're wrong. It takes only a few minutes to adjust to the spirited and uninhibited Cockney way of life. And Miss Littlewood's touch is anything but heavy. She likes a fast pace, and her crosscutting is unorthodox but effective. Along the way, we are treated to a feast of intriguing cosmopolitan faces, including oldsters and children, Jews and Negroes...
Died. .William Alfred Foyle, 78, founder in 1904 (with Brother Gilbert) of W. & G. Foyle, Ltd., world's largest bookstore with 4,000,000 volumes stashed in seven London buildings, a flamboyant cockney who once shocked bibliophiles by selling his wares at tuppence per pound, another time offered to buy the books Adolf Hitler was burning (no reply), and subsequently got his own revenge by using copies of Mein Kampf to protect his roofs during the blitz; of a stroke; in Essex, England...
Britain's hardworking, high-living Charles Clore, 58, has built an empire since 1953 out of ships, manufacturing, real estate and shoes. But the cockney-born, self-made Midas turns out to have an Achilles' heel-or toe. Last week, announcing a 4% profit drop in 1962 for his huge, seven-company British Shoe Corp., Clore blamed the loss partly on what he called "the square-toe debacle...
...Born in cockney London, the daughter of an acting family whose traceable history on the stage goes back to medieval Italy, Ida Lupino is referred to by her husband, Actor Howard Duff, as "the ex-Limey broad." They have been married eleven years, and she adores him so much that there have been four reconciliations. Six years ago, when they began acting as a husband-wife team in their own productions of Mr. Adams and Eve for CBS. some Madison Avenue oracle told them that it would be unsuccessful because they "would not be identified with the next-door neighbors...
...Guinnesss wrote the screenplay himself--basing it, of course, on Joyce Cary's novel--and this, certainly, is worthy of some note. The minor characters are all broadly comic, or meant to be (why is it that, ever since Dickens, the English have always thought that anything said in Cockney is screamingly funny?), but that, to be sure, only emphasizes the subtlety of Jimson. "Michaelangelo, Blake--you're one on them" is the epitaph that Nosy, Gully's disciple, suggests at the movie's end, but Jimson has always had a more realistic idea of his own worth...