Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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While attacking American English becomes one of the standard duties of distinguished guests, an English professor has risen to the defense of the cockney used by Mrs. Gam and Samuel Weller. Instead of being the immorial personifications of London's proletarial, both spoke in the purest English style, which a few centurles earlier would have been positively patrician...
...dying lap-dog. Sam Weller's "wessel of wrath" finds full vindication in a diary of the sixteenth century which discusses "welwets, wacabonds and women" with no hesitation whatsoever. "Ojus", too, and "sparrowgrass" are not only in common use but are even preferred by the standard dictionary of 1790. "Cockney", continues the article, "that noble blend of East Mercian, Kentish, and East Anglican, which was written by Chaucer, printed by Caxton, spoken by Spencer and Milton, has, in a modified form and with an artificial pronunciation, given us the literary English of the present...
...second act centers about Mr. Burroughs' refusal to allow his Cockney gardner to go into the moving picture business. In spite of his refusal, Kemp (W. C. Jackson '22), the gardner, runs off, becomes fabulously rich, and by the time of the next annual house party at the Burroughs home, he has nearly succeeded in accomplishing the financial ruin of his former master. In the final act, however, Clive's insane but harmless interferances succeed in bringing back the lost fortune and in reuniting the separated lovers. Carr's blemished character is vindicated and the villainous gardner is carried away...
...Weaver, Tom's wife, Miss Doris Halman, Radcliffe '16 Robert, a mountaineer, Mr. W. G. Thomas '24 Scenery by Miss Eleanor Eustis, of the School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. "The Crows Nest", by W. L. Manley 2G. The Greenhorn Kid, Mr. Conrad Salinger '23 Joe-joe, Cockney, A.B., Mr. Royal Beale Sp. Mr. Peterson, Mr. Leon Pierson Sp. Scenery by Mr. Rollo Wayne 2G. "The Other Once", by Arthur Ketchum 2G. The Connecticut Kid, Mr. J. J. Daly Sp. Ramblin' Red, Mr. H. F. Carleton 2G. The Other One, Mr. Warrick Scott '22 Scenery by M. Oenslager...
...Jewett Players at the Copley Theatre, Pygmalion is a very amusing and well-balanced production. The acting, as a whole, is adequate, and on the part of Mr. Clive--delightful. He is Henry Higgens to the last nervous twitch of his awkward hands. Viola Roach, as the cockney flower girl, and Ada Wingard as the straight-laced housekeeper with middle class respectability--are likewise very convincing...