MUNICIPAL.
.-. Dorothy Mackaill plays a "liard--boiled"- • mannequin in a_ fashio.nahle New Yoi'k city modiste shop in her latest First National and Vitaphone picture,- "Hard to:. Get,"- .at the Municipal /Theatre. Th'e blonde stage' star of Old England kept a marked Engiisli accent wliile play.ing in New York, hut it disappeared in the Holjywood studios. Recently she had to practice to get it back. The lost accent was used for affectation only in a few sce'nes of "Hard To Get," in which the little heroine, stalking millionaires on Fifth Avenue, "puts on airs," lo intrigue her pre.v. Of course it was no great tusk. But Miss Mackaill declares that the accent of her native land had left lier completely_ for a time, and she hadn't realised it until she started affecting it -for the "lines" of her new starring yehicle. • Charjes Delaney plays opposite Miss Mackaill and Jack Oakie, Louise Fazenda, -Edmund Burns and_ other well- . known troupers appears in support. :Good 6upports are screened.
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Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 73, 29 April 1930, Page 9
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164MUNICIPAL. Daily Telegraph (Napier), Volume 59, Issue 73, 29 April 1930, Page 9
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