Word: cockney
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...arch-brigand Mendoza (also the Devil in the Don Juan scene). Cavada Humphrey turned in an adequate performance as the misunderstood Violet Robinson, as did Robert Brustein and Thomas Hill as her husband and father-in-law respectively. I particularly enjoyed John Wynne-Evans as Straker, Tanner's Cockney chauffeur...
Modern Britons know better than to pack up their troubles in their old kit-bags. Instead, more than 130,000 suffering souls each year write, telephone or wire their woes to the cockney-sharp Daily Mirror (circ. 4,723,131) or its scandal-breathing sister, the Sunday Pictorial (5,709,893). Encouraged by occasional black-boxed invitations in both tabloids (DON'T WORRY ON YOUR OWN), Mirror readers address their problems to one Philip Wright, while the Pictorial asks the woebegone to confide in its John Noble...
...concerns two wars. One is fought between Sam Yudenow and a neighborhood storekeeper named Godbolt from whom he rents his movie theater (formerly a church); Sam hates Godbolt for no better reason than that he cheated him. The other war is fought by Daniel and his ally-a contemptuous cockney handyman-against Sam himself. Anything goes in those battles, from the hurling of dead dogs to the shrewd manipulation of greed to defeat greed...
Most evenings Tenor Herb Surface turns up at Manhattan's Mark Hellinger Theater at 8, slips into baggy trousers, tweed jacket and cap, and steps onto the stage as a member of the Cockney quartet which helps ring down the curtain on My Fair Lady's first act: "All I want is a room somewhere, far away from the cold night air . . ." But one day last week, as he has for many weeks, Tenor Surface got to Times Square early. At 5:30 he joined other members of the My Fair Lady chorus in a studio above Lindy...
...play some 30 centuries forward. He has boldly evoked an Edwardian world full of prance and panoply, his Trojans very British, his Greeks very German. He has shown a siren Helen lolling against a cream-and-gold piano; he makes Pandarus frock-coated and effeminate, Thersites a disheveled cockney war photographer. He might find license for his anachronisms in the play itself, where Hector quotes Aristotle...