Word: dialectical
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Like all old-line troupers, he tried to take a hand in stage-managing his pictures. This brought on arguments. One day he almost quit because it seemed to him there were not enough chickens around a farmhouse set. Another time he got into a furious fight about his dialect, which Director Charles Vidor criticized. "Oh, it ain't Irish, isn't it?" he yelled. "Well, let me tell you, Mr. Know-It-All, it's been Irish enough to earn me a good living for 25 years. If any man could tell good from bad Irish it wouldn...
...squaws seem at last to have been given sensible speaking parts, emerging as complex, poetic, dignified, good-humored men & women deeply conscious of the evil times that have come upon their race. Never loquacious, they speak with an easy informality that has the charm of a good translation of dialect. They suffer their humiliations at the hands of white men with impassive reserve, love their wives & children, misbehave only when a wild streak comes to the surface in the memory of past greatness, or in an unyielding desire for savage revenge. Although Oliver La Farge's stories of them...
...planes to blow Emperor Power of Trinity out of his palace. Punctually at 11:55 a. m. one day last week a pink silk veil covering the Emperor's box in Parliament was drawn aside and the shrewd, sharp-faced potentate addressed his people. He spoke in native dialect. Il Duce said afterward that his actual words as cabled from Addis Ababa by the Italian Minister were far stronger than the flowery official text later released in French to impress world opinion. According to this, His Majesty cried, "My people, your Emperor, who addresses you, will be in your...
...sounds better than any other in the cinema, is as good as usual. Her talent for light comedy makes the laborious convolutions of Victor Schertzinger's story seem almost enjoyable. Leo Carrillo croaks so amiably that he may hereafter head Hollywood's oversized roster of dialect leading men. Best sounds: the Love Duet, from Act I of La Boheme, in which Michael Bartlett outsings Miss Moore...
...office hours Fernand Bouisson indulged in the three hobbies that all Frenchmen admire: he eats, with skill and discrimination; he collects pictures and rare editions; he tells funny stories in dialect. Until the riots of February 1934 he was a faithful if unimpressive member of the Socialist Party. Then he resigned m disgust, has since carefully avoided aligning himself with any political party...