Word: cockneyisms
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...clear, and even some of the foggier lines seemed to mean something when he speaks them. In the part of Private David King, Michael Harwood is just noisy and energetic enough to keep things alive. Earle Edgerton encumbers his characterization of the aging Private Tim Meadows with an unconvincing Cockney accent, but his performance improves when he drops it near the end of the play. The generally impressive cast is rounded out by James Rieger...
When Morrison got to his feet a few minutes later, his tone was not that of the cocky cockney veteran of 30 years in the House. How could he carry on as deputy leader, he demanded bitterly, after the party had rejected him; how could he "face the jeers of the Tories?" Nearly overcome, he turned to Gaitskell and asked: "May I be permitted to leave this meeting?" Head bowed, he stepped down from the platform and made his way to the door. Moved by a single impulse, every Laborite rose to his feet and stood in silence...
...shall do as I am told." Four years ago, the succession would undoubtedly have gone without a fight to Deputy Leader Morrison. A cockney policeman's son, genial Herb Morrison is a man after every workingman's heart...
Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne, for whom the play was created, try very hard to bring the inert bulk of the comedy to life. They assume foreign accents--he, something that sounds like German and is supposed to be Czech; she, cockney--they hurry about the stage a if they were really not more than sixty years old, and they argue about what code to use in their mind reading act as thought the subject held great interest. But, in the end, the Lunts too lose out to mediocre writing. The backstage life of vaudeville performers has so often been...
...group nouns suggested by the Oxford dons for ladies of the evening [Sept. 19] were felicitous indeed. Here is another with a cockney flavor: "A smelting of ores...