“TOO ENGLISH”
U.S.A. LANGUAGE DIFFICULTY. [by CABLE —PRESS ASSN. —COPYRIGHT.] LONDON, October 31. What Americans regard as “that quaint English accent.” is again the subject of discussion in the talkie world. The head of the Fox Film Company, who has just arrived in London, says that much of the English accent on the films is not, intelligible to the average American outside of the big cities. He is himself able to understand only, a portion of the words of the character taking the part of the Yorkshireman, Jesse Oakroyd, in “Good Companions,” while Ihe tones of Herbert Marshall and of Madeline Carroll in “1 Was a Spy” are too English for the Americans. The Fox Film Company’s representative hopes to adjust the matter with the English producers, with whom his firm is associeted.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 2 November 1933, Page 2
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