What an astonishing lesson on well spoken American English… We don’t get much of this these days, do we? This show -What’s My Line?- was very popular back in the fifties and this clip is quite surreal as you may find out. Enjoy it!
Archive for January, 2011
“Winds of Fate”, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, in Maggie Smith’s voice
Posted: January 12, 2011 in literature, videos“The Winds of Fate”
One ship drives East,
and another drives West,
With the self-same winds that blow;
Tis the set of the sails, and not the gales,
Which tells us the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the ways of fate,
As we voyage along through life;
Tis the set of the soul that decides its goal,
And not the calm or the strife.
This TV show is an outstanding example of Groucho Marx’s wit and sense of humour. A young Bill Cosby is not able to prevent him from literally laughing at him… live! Those of you who are not fully proficient in English can read the Spanish subtitles. However, I suggest you watch it again trying not to read any Spanish at all. By the way, this is his last appearance on TV before he passed away.
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