Word: nasalities
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...almost needless and completely useless to say that this book is as slight, irrelevant and disappointing an approach to a noble theme that we have ever read. There is no depth, no irony, only a flat-chested humor of the most nasal resonnance. The diction throughout is based on the questionable philosophy that France is full of Frenchmen. Little Arlette, the dyer-kiss do-de-o-do (but I loof heem, ah mon Dieu how I loof heem). Jacques the melancholy boulevardier (you ave hask me eef I spik ze English?), and Mimi the cockeyed marmoset, are really...
...parting and reunion of Maxwell Anderson's hero and heroine?one of the best of all U. S. plays?becomes heavy and slow in this partly-vocal photograph directed with sincerity but without much vitality by Gregory La Cava. Corinne Griffith's voice, heard for the first time, is nasal, unattractive, but somehow memorable. Best shot: Miss Griffith getting her sweetheart to marry...
...head upon a stone and gone unconscious for a short time. Then he walked home. Apparently there were no after results. But for years his scalp had felt tender. In adult life he had had typhoid, acute rheumatism, labyrinthine deafness, pneumonia five times, influenza, chronic laryngitis, chronic ulcer of nasal septum...
...characters speak in southern dialect, and to these northern ears seem to do it convincingly. But it is in this field that one discordant note rises. Amidst all this soft speaking the casting of the younger brother of the heroine has been such that the actor speaks in the nasal accent of toity-told street. This is really to be regretted as it is thoroughly jarring to pass from the melody of Helen Hayes to the harshness and total lack of southern accent of a supposed brother as impersonated by Andrew Lawlor...
Before Nominee Hoover, read his speech, into the klieglight stepped a thinnish, baldish, nasal gentleman in a big collar, whose reticence and invisibility had been notable if not conspicuous up to that point in the campaign. Ever since the nominations at Kansas City, Vice President Charles Gates Dawes had been a neutral factor in the election which he had once hoped would be won by his friend, Frank Orren Lowden, and in which he would gladly have played a principal part himself. The plan to introduce him as preliminary speaker in Nominee Hoover's big drive for the Brown...