Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...doss-houses of South London." For 27 years Father Noel, an Anglo-Catholic, has been vicar of Thaxted, a small parish near Cambridge. Of his early days as priest he says: "At Thaxted I preached Socialism, and soon introduced a full Catholic Worship according to the old English rite. Some of my parishioners became very keen, especially the young and the poor. During the War a lady gave me a Sinn Fein flag for the church and I flew this from the church together with a St. George's flag for England, and a red flag for the International...
Victoria the Great is a whopping English imitation of a whopping Hollywood imitation of whopping English pageantry. In 113 minutes 60 years flicker past. The cast boasts 72 names, innumerable extras, is so huge that the part of Disraeli is taken not by one actor, but by both Derrick Demarney, who looks rather younger, and Hugh Miller, who looks rather older than George Arliss. Splendor nourishes itself on magnificence until, with all England jubilant, the picture bursts into a hopeful climax in technicolor...
...were direct ancestors of the Big Apple. Miss Neagle herself is said to have culled 40% of the dialogue from her prototype's journal, from letters. In the picture she accurately mispronounces her consort's German, Prince Albert (Anton Walbrook) accurately mispronounces the Queen's English, and Abraham Lincoln (Percy Parsons), jammed into a sequence with Old Glory to keep U. S. patriots happy and near RKO box-offices, accurately pronounces American...
...ngerknaben, aged 10 to 12, began a U. S. tour which will take them to the west coast and back. The Vienna Singing Boys, famed 439-year-old choir from Austria's old imperial palace give U. S. audiences Dixie and the Star-Spangled Banner in English, chaste church music, operettas in which they rouge and dress up as laundresses, guardsmen, 18th Century gentlemen and ladies...
Goodwill. At the top of Manhattan's Empire State Building one day last week eleven young Britishers launched into a hymn and an Elizabethan madrigal. The English Boy Choristers were about to go on a six-month "Goodwill Tour" of the U. S., their expenses of some $25,000 paid by the Church of England. Aged from 11 to 13, the boys were chosen from 125 applicants, trained by Carlton Borrow in the London Choir School...