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...Georges Clemenceau at the studio of Claude Monet. In 1914 he offered his polylinguistic services to the Tiger. He served as an officer in the French, British and U. S. Armies successively. Especially adept was he at detecting whether or not a man's dialect in any language corresponded to the town he purported to be from; by this means he exposed many a German spy, sent him out to be shot. Once acting the spy himself, he was dropped from an airplane behind the German lines, gained his information and escaped. Leon Dabo thoroughly enjoyed the War. Dabo...
...young tennis player (Mr. Overman), who must pawn a cup he has not quite won for keeps. Included in the complications are a fake holdup, a real holdup, beer, neighbors, a bull pup, a baby. Also joining in the ruckus is a visitor from Atlanta whose attempt at the dialect of that city is an atrocity...
Died. Louis Mann, 65, stage and cinema character actor, cousin of the late Representative Julius Kahn of California; of cancer; in Manhattan. Famed for his high stiff collars, his stuttering German comedy dialect, he had been on the stage for 62 years, in Friendly Enemies, The Man Who Stood Still (long run smash hits), The Second Fiddle, The Whirl of New York, Sins of the Children (cinema...
...idiosyncrasies of American diction furnish a rich variety of also fronts. Around Cambridge certain students quickly assimilate a so-called Harvard accent along with class banners and Veritas shields. This dialect fortunately has no such widespread influence as the Oxonian, yet it does serve to stamp some Harvard men from Tampico to Timbuctoo. While the lingo of a telephone girl often prevents one from making embarrassing remarks to the wrong person, the Harvard accent has no significance beyond indicating that its possessor has got the wrong number...
Marseilles is a work of Marcel Pagnol (Topaze), originally titled Marius. One reason for the acclaim which the play received in Paris was the Provençal dialect of most of its actors. This effect, of course, is completely lacking in the U. S. production, somewhat limiting the power of the original play which was largely a collection of swift, thoroughgoing character sketches. The action takes place in a waterfront saloon, the son (Alexander Kirkland) of whose ponderous proprietor (Dudley Digges) is sea-struck. He must choose between going to the South Seas and remaining with his sweetheart (Frances Torchiana...