Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...following article was written by Peter Hume, a student at Cambridge University and editor of the "Varsity Weekly", who visited the Tercentenary celebration to represent the English University paper...
...Execution of Mary, Queen of Scots," a flickering forty-three years old photoplay, which was over almost before the audience was seated, was the first movie of the series of American Primitives presented by the film society at the Institute of Geographical Exploration yesterday. James B. Munn, professor of English, gave a short talk before the performance...
...companion picture, "Man of Affairs", is a better than average English comedy which depends entirely upon the suave acting of George Arliss to pull it through. Despite the hammy aroma clinging to the supporting cast, Mr. Arliss turns in one of his best performances in light comedy to date. The two juveniles who play at young love are typically English, laboring under the national delusion that the best way to put your lines across is to talk as rapidly and unintelligibly as possible. Arliss admirers will enjoy this picture notwithstanding...
...where, with a "princely gesture," Bridegroom Clayton rented the public swimming baths for two days for their private use, so that he and his bride might swim there naked. The honeymoon over, they settled down to the life of travel, houseparties, "seasons" in London, the routine existence of their English set. After two years of marriage, Elinor found that Romance had flown. When she indignantly reported to Clayton that one of his friends had kissed her, he simply smiled. Elinor says she had plenty of opportunity to make him laugh on the wrong side of his face. Divorce in those...
...lucky for Elinor Glyn that she had found a way of making money, for her husband's involved affairs crashed six years before the War, and she had to sup port him and two daughters until his death in 1915. After the War, like many another English author, she went to Hollywood. There she found the pickings good, stayed nearly seven years. To her own labors there she credits such reforms in cinema sets as spittoonless ducal drawing rooms. She says she taught such stars as Valentino and Gloria Swanson how to make convincing love before a camera...