Word: accents
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Call on him," said the Chief Justice.. Fuchs stood up in the dock, read a statement from notes in a high, tinny voice, barely intelligible underneath his heavy German accent. "I have had a fair trial," he said, "and I wish to thank you, My Lord . . ." Then Lord Goddard leaned forward on his bench; a chill passed through the courtroom...
...they have impure thoughts, but girls have them too. And I want to apologize if I've ever tempted any of the fellows I've had contact with. I know I've tried, and I'm sorry." Said a young man with a Brooklyn accent: "I want to apologize for making the faculty the butt of my corny jokes ... I want to get something else off my chest: giving thanks for food, then complaining about...
Slight, blue-eyed Richard Andrew Palethorpe-Todd, 30, is a pleasantly chatty Ulsterman with an easy English accent. The son of a British army major, he drifted into acting while hanging around the English stage to pick up pointers on writing a play. In Scotland before the war, he was a cofounder, part-time director and actor of the Dundee Repertory Company, where he once played in The Hasty Heart, not as the Scot ("I wouldn't have dared in Scotland") but as the American ("And I wouldn't try that part in America...
...drawing room comedies, there is always one minor character who is extremely annoying. Usually it is and American, who is supplied with a pile of Yankee idiom and a vicious accent and who distributes these to the audience with magnanimity. But "Yes M'Lord" 's American is a girl and relatively well behaved, and Elaine Stritch brings enough, restraint to the role to excuse her occasional moralizing. She is part of a generally excellent cast...
Died. Emil Jannings, 62, hulking Swiss-born German cinemactor who won Hollywood's first "Oscar" (The Way of All Flesh, 1928); of cancer; at his lakeside home in Austria. Forsaking the U.S. when talkies exposed his accent in 1929, Jannings made Nazi propaganda (Ohm Kriiger), but was denazified...