Re: Yar Re: medieval english was knight ranks and titles

James Dolan wrote:
>
> in article <43506821.5461@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> peter t. daniels <grammatim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> |Maybe it's a folk etymology. Some script adapter, unsurprisingly,
> |didn't know the word "yar" (it rhymes with "jar," not with "bare," so
> |I'll spell it as I've always imagined it), and used the boat-related
> |word "yawl."
>
> do you think that hepburn actually said "yawl" on the radio broadcast?
> i don't suppose that anyone would like to track down a copy of the
> broadcast online and listen to it and report whether hepburn says
> "yar" or "yawl"?

I'd know exactly where to go in Chicago to find it -- there's (was?) a
huge nostalgia shop called Metro Golden Memories whose owner, Chuck
Shaden, had an 3-4-hour old-radio program Saturday afternoons (opposite
the Met broadcasts -- which I pretty much stopped listening to as a
result). (He should have received a Peabody for his WWII coverage --
between 1989 and 1995 he played drama, comedy, and news from the week 50
years earlier reflecting current events.)

His station, one of two classical stations in Chicago, was privately
owned, and when the owners decided to retire a few years ago, he may
have had no place to continue his broadcasts.

> |> |How many of the original cast participated in the broadcast?
> |
> |> the big three, at least. by the way is jimmy stewart's character
> |> really a country bumpkin, as opposed to a city bumpkin? he does
> |> say that his father taught high school in south bend, but he's a
> |> new york-based reporter for scandal *** "spy magazine". are you
> |> saying that if jimmy stewart is in a movie with cary grant then
> |> jimmy stewart's character is necessarily a country bumpkin, even if
> |> also a new yorker?
> |
> |Pretty much so, no? How often did they appear together?
>
> it looks like that was pretty much it.
>
> |How believable is he in other sorts of roles, as in, say, *Rear
> |Window* or *Rope*? (I forget who Hitch originally wanted for that
> |part, but it was someone totally different.)
>
> if i remember correctly then he was believable as a vicious murderer
> in "rose marie", but perhaps the tendency to come off as surly
> compared to nelson eddy is as natural as the tendency to come across
> as a country bumpkin compared to cary grant.

I've never seen that -- he must've been very young then, before his
screen persona had been honed? Hitch*** obviously cast against type in
those later movies (Vertigo too, no?). Did Stewart have the range of
(believe it or not) Fred MacMurray, whom my generation knew as *My Three
Sons*'s dad and a Disney favorite long before we saw *Double Indemnity*
(or was it *The Postman Always Rings Twice* [or both])?

Come to think of it, Stewart might've been better than Grant in *Arsenic
and Old Lace* -- Cary Grant overplayed and mugged shamelessly in that
movie.
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Peter T. Daniels grammatim@xxxxxxx
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