HER LANCASHIRE ACCENT

Ellesmere Guardian, Volume LX, Issue 17, 3 March 1939, Page 8

HER LANCASHIRE ACCENT

GRACIE FIELDS TO LOSE IT

PRACTISING "INTERNATIONAL ENGLISH"

(From The Guardian's London

Correspondent)

LONDON, February 11

"It looks as though I'll have to pipe down on my broad, comic, Lancashire accent," said Gracie Fields this week, on her return to England from Hollywood. Gracie was discussing her plans for future films.

"The great idea in nlm3 nowadays," she explained, "is to get subjects that will go down equally well n Britain and America. Over in Hollywood they're talking a lot about 'international English' and I must confess I've been practising it a bit myself. This is talk that's neither Oxford nor Hollywood, but something in between. But even through I go to Hollywood to make a picture, I'm determined not to change my personality, as well as my talk, to suit the American market. I'll stay exactly as I am, with none of this glamour nonsense and I think the Americans will like me that way. They are as friendly in Hollywood ias they are in Blackpool. But there's no question of my settling in Hollywood for good. They've tried to persuade me to, but, while I may agree to making1 one picture there some day, my home and all my interests are here in England, feo why shouk I leave them?"