Word: dialects
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Guido & Grower. The gag had an unlikely beginning. It was born in Toots Shor's Manhattan saloon one afternoon in 1956, when Pat and a pal, Lynn Phillips, were relaxing from their jobs as time salesmen for NBCTV. They were already practiced hands at the dialect spoof. Pat had picked up a talent for mimicry from his father, a successful nightclub comic of the '30s, and he and his friend used their skill as a "sales adjunct" when they wanted to warm up prospects with a laugh or two. That afternoon in Shor's, the Andrea Doria...
Died. Octavus Roy Cohen, 67, novelist, screenwriter, playwright and magazine writer, best known for his pre-World War II Saturday Evening Post short stories about happy-go-lucky, heavy-dialect Southern Negroes such as Florian Slappey, Lawyer Evans Chew, Marshmallow Jeepers and Epic Peters; following a stroke, in Los Angeles. Cohen also wrote for the early Amos 'n' Andy radio series...
...late Pope's closest advisers. "For 20 years I never saw him laugh"). John XXIII is not averse to starting laughter at his own expense. While speaking to a delegation of some 10,000 Venetians who came to Rome to see him crowned, he switched to Venetian dialect, broke into their appreciative applause with the words: "If you start that kind of thing, this audience will never finish. So please don't interrupt me-I mean...
...engaged to rich and beautiful Victorine LaBranche. Keyes fans will not be disappointed as they follow Victorine along a mysterious, lumbering course. Though most of the prose consists of what one character well calls "a potful of fancy-Dan wordage," there are many stretches of an astonishing Louisiana dialect, for which Author Keyes declares herself indebted to a lady friend (who has worked for the Opelousas daily World and has an "almost infallible ear for the nuances of local speech"). "I strive to please," Novelist Keyes confesses. To a striving author, Victorine should be worth its weight in gold slippers...
...done told you?" said a minor actor rehearsing for Sam Goldwyn's Porgy and Bess movie, and there was thunder on Catfish Row. That sort of so-called Negro dialect, said Actress Pearl (Bess) Bailey, is "undignified and unnatural. I don't care if it's Negro or Italian or Greek or French; it's in bad taste." Producer Goldwyn and Director Otto Preminger willingly told the Negro performers to leave out anything they did not like. Question: Will one of the show's most famed songs be retitled It Is Not Necessarily...