Word: cockneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...company have come to regard the small white-haired lady as their mascot. She knows each time they make a mistake, lives with them in the Hotel Lincoln across from the theatre. For the performances she insists on buying her own $1.65 balcony ticket. Says she in her bright cockney accent: "I can't imagine 'eaven without Gilbert & Sullivan. I do hope those two men will be busy at it when I get up there...
...Katrin has time to think about her misdemeanors. While Dr. Fane is busy treating cholera-stricken natives, she sits at home, listening to the babble of her Chinese maid who calls her "Missy" and a cockney resident named Waddington (Forrester Harvey). By the time the doctor has relented so far as to offer to send Katrin back to Hongkong, she has decided to stay in Mei-tan-fu as a nurse. Dr. Fane is wounded in a riot and at the same time the attaché arrives in Mei-tan-fu to see how Katrin is making out. She gives...
First time the question was asked Alpha caused Inventor May no end of embarrassment by croaking: "The Raleigh Observer-Times" Blaming the lapse upon the damp weather, Professor May quickly dictated a new wax cylinder, had Alpha repeat over and over in a cockney bass: "I read the News & Observer." But flushed tobacco farmers were not impressed, paid more quarters to see the hootchy-kootchy...
...make up. Florence Reed is a grisly bridge, growing yearly more grisly as the morbid Miss Havisham. Her twenty year old wedding cake is such a masterpiece of Hollywood cobwebbing that even Pip, when asked what it is, says "dunno Mum. . ." Phillips Holmes achieves an accurate and gloriously irritating cockney accent of such poignancy that no one is more relieved than the audience when he finally learns to speak like a gentleman. He is union persuasive as the blacksmith's apprentice but is the epitome of gentility when be waltzes at Richmond House...
From the robot's interior a cavernous Cockney voice responded...