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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

SATURDAY, JUNE 26, 1948.

A Seat in the

Accent

Is On Accents

OMETIMES Hollywood, works.

in devious ways its miracles to perform.

Take the matter of accents. There are actors and actresses from every global corner. Whether the żelting bo Afghanistan ́or Zululand, the writers can be fairly certain that a dozen performers on the lot will be natives of the country,

So what happens? They get a star from half way around the world and have him learn the proper accent.

Let's consider' the case of Merlo Oberon in "Berlin Express," the story of the world's most exciting train. Born in Tasmania, educated in India and England, she was cast on the French secretary. to Paul Lukas, who portrays a 'German member of a United Nations com- mission.

NOT ISOLATED

Merle, who

speaks French well, had to learn to use it with an accent. The studio oven hired a French coach, Simona La Brousse, to review her lines in authentic Gallic before she stepped in front of the camera,

This singular devotion to dialect isn't an isolated instance, either. In fact, the trend gets any more noticeable, the studios will have to put up a sign: "English Spoken Here."

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Irene Dunne has just finished long stint, as the Norwegian mother in "I Remember Mama." A Nor- wegian housewife, Mrs Judith Slater kept track of the "" and "y" switch as well as other more subtle ac- cents. This picture saw the noted Scandinavian, Edgar Bergen, go from Swedish to Norweglan dialect, and the cold country nccent also employed by

Barbara Bel Geddes.

was

Ingrid Bergman, Sweden's gift to America, has been mixed up in Gallic affairs, cinematically speak ing, for some time now. In "Arch of Triumph" she's as French as the

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Hollywood Cracks On Anti-Semitism

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By LEONARD MOSLEY

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WHEN a really fine or ex-1 No one spenis. But there is a noise citing momont suddenly Inside the beads of all of them as loud as if they had screamed...and comes out at me from a then they all reach quickly for or coffee as the camera non cinema screen I am apt to be an cigarettes" such Scandinaviana as Philip Dorn and emotional person. I feel a tight-moves away.

In the mud ness in my chest. I start chok- ing things back in case the per-realising what it can mean, And From that moment Pecks begins son with me thinks I am a sloppy soon he is wallowing in the mud.. old fool..

In his pose as a Jew he runs into Nolgh- It doesn't happen often enough; anti-Semitism everywhere. Eiffel Tower, trading accents with but it happens to me several times in bours in his flat-building address him

in a changed

of voice. His son Charles Boyer. But in her current "Gentleman's Agreerpent," the Oscar

Eela called names at school. An picture, "Joan of Arc," France's award film-and the memory of hotel politely regrets that it cannot greatest story, she uses no accent those moments is with me just as

rive him a room. Someone in a vividly as I write.-

The anti-Semitism they are hitting restaurant tries to pick a fight be Others engaged in this round-the-back at here and what good cinema cause he gets a table before them. world affair are Laraine Day, who they make of it is not the sort you

He even encounters anti-Semitism plays

dark-haired Spanish see on cloakroom walls or hear from in his Jewish secretary, who talks senorita, complete with Spanish ac-soapboxes in the Ridley-road, and about "these kykey kinds of people cent, in "Tycoon," opposite John sertainly not the obscene violences of not like us." Wayne; Orson Welles and a host of the Nazis.

As Peck ploda grimly on through performers

who don kilts and

This is a story that ignores the this horrible new world he has dis- Scottish burts for "Macbeth,"

and black pile of racial haired and goes covered around him I went through most tensest and Swedish-born Viveca Lindfors who prying into the murky corridors of some of the

fascinating moments. I have adopts a Yankce accent for her role racial prejudice. In "To the Victor."

hoperienced in films. By consummate- good Buting he conveyed to you the agony of mind and spirit that Brows in him.

at all!

· PAYS-HANDSOMELY

of

Revelation

ex-

No one gets killed because is a Jew, but a lot of people get their souls torn and twisted...simply These idiomatic matters can un-or the "bergs" and "heims" on the Guire, lets him down. She knows

because of the shape of their nose

Even his flancee, Dorothy Mc- doubtedly be traced to two cinema lend of their names.

his secret but she fails to under- gentz-the late Warner Oland and Johnny Weissmuller. Oland's char-

stand or appreciate the turmoil that acterisation

is going on in him-doesn't under- that inscrutable

Gregory Peck is a Gentile who is aland that he regards her, too, as Chinese detective, Charlie Chan,

ha asked to write a series of articles on an anti-Semite because, in spite of typed him forever in Oriental

Paris. He has since been followed anti-Semitism for a slicke but Liberal herself, she is condescending towards other Westerners-The late Sydney nine, He can't get an "angle" the Jews.

on his job, he can't even understand . In end (because it is a Alm) Toler and Roland Winters. Weiss what anti-Semitism means, until he everything comes out right, Gregory muller's accent, if you can call his decides to go out and casually an-Peck reveals he is really a Gentile monosyllabic speeches language, arenounce that he is n Jew w himself. and everyone starts being nice again, a combination of

of popular miscon He makes his revelation in one of I, came away wondering what would ception

Barnum and Bailey the best scenes in the film, when he have happened if he had really been grunts. But Johnny is still making is discussing his articles at a con- a Jew, and I was filled with guilt Jungle talk pay off handsomely Inference with his office colleagues. civilised cash. His latest effort is They are against his assignment. "Tarzan and the Mermaids."

They feel that stories about anlı- Semitism will only "stir things up."

Says Peek: "I don't.agree.

And don't think it makes any difference that I am a Jew myself,"

And then the camera stands still and looks at that group of people.

plus

The only Hollywood star who is learning a new means of communi- catlon without the worry about ac- cent la Jane Wyman, who is study- ing sign language for her deaf-mute role in "Johnny Belinda."

THEY'VE got swing! They've got zing! Laurel and Hardy--all decked out in super zoot suits are hepeat leaders of a two-man swing band with a double load of live and blonde troublo la "Jitterbugs,” which opens tomorrow at the King's Theatro, Vivian Blaine, blonde charmer, is also in the film.

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friends are Jews," which is a type not like that. Some of my best Programme of “CHARLIE CHAPLIN COMEDIES" of unconscious anti-Semitism the Пlm is trying to lay bare,

But let me emphasise, aside from the message this is a beautiful film, full of excitement, passion, and good neting.

Miss McGuire is fine as the well- meaning fancee, though I do wish she would take a lozengo occasional- ly for that constant throatiness of voice,

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Sydney Greenstreet, the gourmet, has found that vitamins lurk in the strangest things.

Greenstreet reported for work on "The Velvet Touch," at RKO Radio studio's with his 285 pounds wracked with cold. Rosalind Russell, her training as "Bister Kenny" still fresh, promptly took over.

From a vegetable juicer in her dressing room she kept serving him the juice of carrots, celery, parsley and other vitamin-saturated vegeta- bjes until he was ready to admit anything.

know these California colds," Greenstreet sald in the studio com- missory, casting a longing look at a steak denied him in his liquid diet. "You only get one a year-usually In the autumn and it lasts until the next autumn. But I think I've con- vinced Rosalind-enis-that her remedy has cured me,”

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