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Effect on American Talkie Audiences HOPE FOR COMPROMISE London, October 31. ■ What Americans regard as "that quaint English accent” is again the subject of discussion in the talkie wprld. The head of the Fox Film Company, who has just arrived in London, says that much of the English accent in the films is unintelligible to ati average American outside the big cities. He himself was able to understand only a portion of the words spoken by the gharacter taking the part of the Yorkshlreman, Oakroyd. in “The Good Companions,’’ while the tones of Herbert Marshall and Madeleine Carrol in “I Was a Spy” were too English for Americans. The Fox representative hopes to adjust the matter with the English producers with whom he is associated.
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Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 33, 2 November 1933, Page 11
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127ENGLISH ACCENT Dominion, Volume 27, Issue 33, 2 November 1933, Page 11
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