Word: cockneyism
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Passing familiarity with the Cockney accent and a willingness to commute were the only requirements stipulated last night by Publicity Director Mary Chapin of the Simmons College Dramatic Club when she issued an appeal for Harvard thespians to try out for the sole male spot in the All-College-Weekend production of Ladies in Retirement...
Simmons talent slated to participate in the May 9 performance includes six actresses and some 30 members of the production crew. Casting for the Cockney part, open only to Harvard men, will he held in Simmons' College Building at 4:10 o'clock on Wednesday and 3:30 o'clock Thursday...
...London peddler, howling unintelligible Cockney among gear groans and horn toots: "Cut iris, cut cauliflower, Yorkshire blue peas and brand new potatoes...
...London, he realized that "the people of America don't know a damn thing about the people of England." So the correspondent of Manhattan's tabloid, laborite Post decided to report the British through British eyes. The eyes he chose were those of his widowed, Cockney charlady, old (65), worked-bowed Mrs. Hunkle. This week, readers of Boal's twice-a-week column were seeing the U.S. through those same Cockney eyes. Boal had brought Mrs. Hunkle back with him, took her along on a Hollywood vacation where everything from elaborate hot-dog stands to film-colony...
...role of Falstaff, Hersey performed with a vigor and understanding that garnered as many laughs as a sparsely-filled auditorium could offer. Weisgal displayed versatility in doubling as Shallow and the Archbishop. Mrs. Mories, having done time on professional boards, played an energetic Mistress Quickly with an occasionally inconsistent Cockney accent...