Word: cockneyism
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...acquainted with the French touch--overcomes the problem of space, which could be acute if any of his fine company were claustrophobic. And it is a fine company. Robin Ramsay, as La Brige in Article 330, is a lithe-limbed and limber-tongued Australian who gives the part a cockney gusto which it lacks in the original, improving from time to time on Professor Barzun's stiffish translation and livening it up with sparks of "business" of which Courteline would have approved, I am sure. As Andre, the lover in Boubouroche, he is finesse personified, a sort of David Niven...
Donald Soule's settings include a tropical garden on the coast of Morocco and an abandoned Moorish castle where Brassbound's band of thieves and cutthroats hide out. Costumes are by Lewis Smith. David Cole plays the Cockney thug, Drinkwater, with Peter Haskell as the Scottish missionary, Rankin, and Kenneth Tigar, Roger Gans and William FitzHugh are in the cast...
Rosa Lewis, the cockney genie who conjured up the Cavendish and presided for half a century over its revels, liked to think it was "not an 'otel but an 'ome away from 'ome for my friends." To addicts, "Rosa's'' was not so much home as a Mad Hatter's champagne party. They called Rosa the Duchess of Jermyn Street, and rated her and the Cavendish itself as two of the three most rewarding landmarks in London (with the Tower, which has not taken many boarders since the 16 century). The mid-Mayfair...
...Notorious Landlady. "Oyme jus' the parlor mide," says Kim Novak in her best Berlitz cockney. "Are you a sleep-in maid?" asks arch Jack Lemmon, with his eyes doing the twist. "Coo, yew Yanks do kum raht aout wiv it, don't yew?" wuffles the new Eliza Doolittle. "Well, most of it, anyway," says Lemmon, a film comedian who knows how to throw away a line before it deserts...
...pretends to be a cockney slavey only to get this beguiling if hokey mystery-comedy off to a start. As Mrs. Carlye Hardwicke, an American, she owns the stately London town house, though she seems to have mislaid Mr. Hardwicke. Jack Lemmon, her tenant, is a U.S. State Department official named Bill Gridley, up from the sand lots of Saudi Arabia to the diplomatic big league of the American embassy in London. The neighbors, and Scotland Yard, have their own ideas about Mr. Hardwicke. "She killed him,"say they...