Word: cockneyism
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Jessie Matthews does her scampering best throughout this gallimaufry, manages to appear at times an appealing if toothy bit of cockney femininity. What gives Gangway a slightly embarrassing quality is the earnest brightness with which its British characters mimic American parts of speech. Though they are almost letter-perfect and have obviously been coached within an inch of their larynx, their "yeahs" and "flatfoots" and "old battle-axes" induce on the U. S. ear the same faint note of horror as a child's unmeaning blasphemy or an innocent lady's use of an unprintable word...
...scornful of the press, both Right and Left. Even when cornered for an interview, he ignores any questions which he does not choose to answer, punctuates his own points with jerks of his knotted longshoreman's arms. He used to have a pronounced Australian accent (an exaggerated Cockney) but has now lost most of it, speaking in a soft, low, emphatic voice. On the platform he is restrained, though he sometimes stops, tosses back his brown hair, pushing his beak forward as if into the wind at sea on lookout. He demonstrated his spellbinding platform power at a Madison...
...Ohio but of Kentucky where the Briarhopper speech is filled with these and more that are far worse like "nat" for "night" and "hit" for "it." All this is Briarhopper, pure and unadulterated. This peculiar dialect is a mixture of the Southern and strangely enough the Cockney of England. The Cockney is very evident when the speech is heard and the inflection can noted. Many Kentuckians have moved over to Ohio to work its rich farmlands and to find employment in its many factories. The Ohio farmers have fallen into its lazy easy way of speaking and strangers, hearing...
...performances of its cast. Robert Montgomery is splendid as the killer, and although Rosalind Russel's portrayal of combined fascination and revulsion is rather unpleasant to behold, her performance is excellent. Dane May Whitty is excellent as an unsuspecting hypochondriac, but Merle Tottenham ad Kathleen Harrison lay on the cockney a little too thickly...
...comedy is none too subtly, or for that matter none too well, supplied by a cluster of Englishmen on the order of Mutt and Jeff's friend, Sir Sidney. They mumble and fumble and glare in the approved comic-strip fashion. Then there is the Cockney, who it is probably feared would lose his identity if he were allowed to very from show to show...