Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Unfortunately, Hogarth still had his enemies. Two in particular-an ex-priest and a cockney murderer-had peculiar talents for turning up at the wrong time in the wrong places. At the height of his triumph, the murderer stabbed him and the ex-priest contrived to sink most of his floating forts. Hogarth fled for his life, his power tumbling in ruins about his head...
...plays a smooth blond part with a certain amount of contributory laughter. Miss Hines is as gracefully attractive as ever, though it was remarked in the audience that she had lost control entirely of her left shoulder. Then there was Roy Royston playing the famed actor with a distinct Cockney accent. And an amusing little tough child by Ethel Shutta. Probably not very much will be written about the music a hundred years from now, yet it sufficed for all those lacking too precise a memory. Laughs were distributed in favorable quantities and the dancers agitated happily. Casting up accounts...
Elkdom's origin dates from one November night In 1867, when an English comic singer landed in Manhattan, strolled down Lispenard Street, dropped into a "Free and Easy," sang songs for his supper, made friends. The friends threw dice for their drink but the Cockney showed them a better game: dropping corks on the bar and picking them up, the last man to recover his cork standing treat...
...cork game "took"; a company of cork-droppers formed. In 1868 the Cockney, Charles A. Vivian, presided over a meeting of "The Jolly 'Corks," now determined to organize a benevolent and protective society. What to call it ? Vivian remembered in England "The Royal Antediluvian Order of Buffalos," but his comrades favored "Elks" when they discovered that animal described as "fleet of foot, timorous of wrong, but ever ready to combat in defense of self or the female...
Polly Pearl (Mary Nash), tangles herself in trouble at the outset by marrying the idle offspring of the recent rich. Her claim to cosmic recognition at the time was moderate success as a soubrette in a second class London music hall. She is careless of Cockney accent but scrupulous of moral tone. Amid the exotic realities of Monte Carlo, her male acquisition develops desperate ennui and she departs in dis- consolate defiance...