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Show 'Slanguage' in the Films Dc-piored Dc-piored by Purists, Liked by Audiences l!Y IMtl.l t It I I A' I v Inti matipnal Nru service Staff ( or ret i mdent, 1-oNDOX. Uct. 20. (Correspondence, (Correspond-ence, i I tut k to the charge of the purists of this joint language of ours. H re in the mlilst of this land of it slant' that. Is prollfij but )aek:i the Imaginative touch of the Yankee re-Ho re-Ho re bus iniacn a hue and cry against "slangu&gc" in the films. "Slanguagi in the films, says William Wil-liam J. Locke, blocks the was of the union of the Kngllsh-speaklng peoples. peo-ples. fs the same William j. 0ckc who writes good hooks, humorously good hooks ..l times He left his sense of humor at home, however, and now comes out In Landmark, the organ of the English Speaking I'nion. uith this: '.Nothing lnds more to defeat the object uf the union In this country than the super-AmSrlcanlspi of ihc language of the American films. Hert Is a cause of International friction which, with some little trou-l blc, might possibly be removed. sl m.n si it nxid 5 "The notional life of America is being be-ing explained to England by means of the lilni Itut tho educative value of lhal explanation Is In manv'caaes de-troyed de-troyed by the semi-lntelilglble language lan-guage In which the written part of the play Is couched." There hasn't been such a delving among Americans for Americanism since the Doughboys arrived and fables fa-bles in Yankee slang were a popular foi Me .,i London newspa pcrs With a wise in ind .-i twinkle in tbe eye tho rsnprtera of Meet street have aided aid-ed and abetted Mr. Iocke b digging up si. me horrible cx-amplcs. It Is hopeless. Kays one newspaper, for a film caption writer to sling sud-denlv sud-denlv on lb' serern "Lamp the peach" although (he newspaper profe-saos knowledge that this, translated, means "I oolc at this pretty Rirl." t DI1 m E MISSES POI I The nudiencei avera another paper, is .old lo I lie fate or a Nebraska gentleman who overplayed Ms hand and v.is waltzed off to the hone or- hard " "Apparonlly, read ihe glossary of the dally prints, ' this ivid phrase ineans ihat the person in question w-ts hlghlv Imprudent, and as a conie-quence conie-quence lost his life." r again: "The dour north grows a little dourer when 't Is expected to digest! iirh Information as this: 'It was the kid's Jonah d.iy when be was hUch-l ed," which means that the young man's wedding day was an unluckj I one." If a plain ordinary "Journalist" to use i he Knglisli wo-d may so far forRM himself aa to express an opinion opin-ion It'a this. If the Yankee films were riot In words and action more broadly and farcically Yankee than an Yankee ever waa in ihI Hie. some millions of "cinema goers in Crlton would be roundly disappointed Locke mav have some Grounds for his kirk, aftrl all, for the printed conversational1 portion of films exported to tircit HrltaJn has th- iipnearnnri, of halnq' been doctored ' The "la nuaire" la, H 5 apparently, spread on with a tromei T Brltlah consumption. H |