Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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This'll Make You Whistle (Cam & McLane). British musical comedy, directed by Herbert Wilcox and starring Jack Buchanan, chiefly noteworthy for a stubborn, Cockney prankishness calculated to cause U. S. audiences not to whistle but to squirm...
...successful musicomedy, Me and My Girl, which opened last winter, the Lambeth Walk by last week was being played to a frazzle on the radio, whistled to death in the streets, performed every fourth dance in London hotels and clubs. The dance-an easy, arm-in-arm walk, mock-Cockney fashion, with simple turns, knee-slappings and, at the end, a shout of "Hey!" or "Oi!" -had reached the continent, had penetrated even to Scotland. And last week, Arthur Murray, Manhattan dance teacher, returned from Europe with the Lambeth Walk at his toe-tips, vowing to launch...
...stars England's top singer and dancer, Jessie Matthews, in a jarring $900,000 blend of inexpensive, landscapy charm and budget-eating, Hollywood-inspired bandbox décor. In the ginghamy raiment of a river barge waif, Actress Matthews' sturdy, bike-legged nimbleness seems to belie her Cockney wispyness. But squired to proper-dance frocks and slippers and a fancy stage career by Soup Magnate Roland Young. she dances dainty duos with the U. S.'s Jack Whiting, sings her way to a typical cinemusical fadeout...
...flat racing, but any toffer could ride a nag in a hedgehopping race. Long before last week, however, the steeplechase Grand National had taken its place with the flat Derby as social tops in English horse racing. Into the little marmalade-manufacturing town of Aintree poured 250,000 spectators, cockney sports, peers of the realm, ambassadors, socialites, to witness the 100th running...
...result is occasionally funny, occasionally mordant, mostly an addled mixture. Partly atoning for the commonplace writing of The Greatest Show on Earth are its ingenious costumes, handsome production, and the acting of Edgar Stehli as Slimy, the serpent. As he slithers among the bears and elephants, hissing in Cockney, inciting Leo the Lion (Anthony Ross) to murder the Keeper, Actor Stehli commits only one zoological error. He wickedly nickers his tongue to show malice. Real snakes, without malice, flicker their tongues to smell...