Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...occasional moments when the play achieves the warm pungence of its author's later works; these are often fumbled by the minor members of the cast but never by Isobel Elsom who plays Mrs. Jones or by James Dale who plays her husband with a loud and feline cockney accent...
...hurried over to the Plaza across the street and got the coat check girl and a dining room captain to help out in the parts of the rascally smugglers. He might be able to do a Pygmalion with the coat check girl if he could teach her cockney, and there is a scene in Mr. Pinero's "Magistrate" where the waiter would fit in nicely but it's all very quaint in "The Ghost Train...
...apprenticed, crawled under a circus tent and fallen asleep. Then an old clown had saved him from the crouching lion against whose cage he had dozed and taught him the astonishing art of making people laugh. All the legends made Marceline a Spaniard, but he talked with a tight cockney whine in his voice...
Pygmalion. G. B. Shaw's sage play with a wink is enjoying flawless production at the Guild Theatre. Under Philip Moeller's direction, it emerges a dramatic symphony. Lynn Fontanne (who spent her summer in London picking up a cockney dialect and wardrobe) plays the wild specimen of the slums. Henry Travers is her ragged parent with Shavian grievances against middle-class morality. Together with Beryl Mercer as a simple housekeeper who understands women better than the celebrated bachelor scientists, they offer as fine a performance as the Guild or any other organization, can boast for this season...
EAST OF MANSION HOUSE - Thomas Burke-Doran ($2). A Cockney urchin once gazed through the musty windows of an old Chinaman's store in the India Dock Road and experienced some-thing unforgettable. Whether it was a glory, a wisdom or a peace passing understanding, the urchin has never yet been able to say in so many words. But it was an experience sufficient to supply Thomas Burke with a lifetime's devotion to the Limehouse district of London, where he and Charles Spencer Chaplin were Cockney urchins together. He is still writing out of the heart...