Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...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...
...shone out with serenity, with severity, or perhaps with complete indifference. Slowly wheeling, like the rays of a searchlight, the days, the weeks, the years passed one after another across the sky." On a spring day in 1880 Colonel Pargiter leaves his club to pay a visit to his cockney mistress, then home to his family: his bedridden, dying wife, his children...
...Pargiter children but Eleanor have left home. One is a full-fledged barrister, one a soldier in India, one of the daughters is leading a questionable life of her own. Age has parted Colonel Pargiter from his cockney mistress...
...Century ($5). This able biography of the great satirist paints a vivid picture of the London background of Hogarth's work, tells the careers of the subjects of his portraits, describes his fight for the first copyright law (1735), explains how it happened that the pug-nosed little Cockney genius was so detested by academic critics that his achievements went unrecognized until a century after his death...