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...Last year's Oscar to Actor Paul Muni (Louis Pasteur) disappointed many who thought Actor Tracy deserved it for a row of consistently fine jobs (among them: Father Tim in San Francisco, Joe Wilson in Fury). When this year's balloting named his difficult pidgin-English part in Captains Courageous, many thought the score was about even...
Charlie Chan at Monte Carlo (Twentieth Century-Fox). Warner Oland, still cinema's most dependably entertaining detective, liberally equipped with aphorisms in pidgin English and accompanied by his No. 1 son, Keye Luke, interrupts a vacation to find out who stole a million dollars in bonds...
...Priestley spoke of ". . . Mr. Ernest Hemingway's raucous and swaggering masculinity, which I am beginning to find rather tiresome. It is time some friend spoke sharply to Mr. Hemingway." The N. Y. Times's John Chamberlain asked: "Can it be that Hemingway has been writing pidgin English from the start?" *Obscenity deleted. *Discarded in his signature since...
When that blew up, she landed a job as secretary to Isadora Duncan. With aging Isadora and her young husband Sergei Essenine, Russian poet, she flitted from hotel to resort for temperamental months. Because Isadora could speak only pidgin Russian and Essenine could speak no English, Lola's principal function was to act as interpreter, often in uncomfortably intimate scenes. When one day Essenine got drunk and insisted on going out for a walk by himself to get away from women, there was a fierce quarrel. Lola was made the scapegoat, lost that...
...marriage." The ceremony at Buenos Aires was pronounced in Latin and Spanish. Neither bride nor groom understood a word of it. When Diaghilev heard the news he dismissed Nijinsky from the Ballet. A baby was on the way. The couple, who were just learning to converse in pidgin-French and Russian, went to Austria. There the War caught them and the authorities refused to let them leave. They were imprisoned, not in an army camp as other accounts have stated, but on the top floor of Romola's mother's house. She proved a stern jailer. Nijinsky...