@rcbpiccolo Yes, you may certainly say how much you love the very witty and urbane John Charles Daly, who was probably the most intelligent person ever to host a television game show, in addition to his having been a first-rate broadcast journalist, whose CBS Radio bulletin of the December 7, 1941 attack by Japan upon the United States of America at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii is legendary. A donation in Mr. Daly's memory may be made to his beloved Tilton School, in Tilton, New Hamphire.
The American newscasters who spoke, as Edwards did, (I'm referring to many of his contemporaries) came from hugely diverse geographic regions of The United States yet they all spoke this way. The Edith Evans is obviously using "Standard British English" but I found her a little "over the top" this way as is the boy's speech however Mr. Greenfield sounds more "realistic" within this context. Fascinating subject! Nice to have met you; you're a good guy!
In "those days" many better educated Americans would sort of affect sort of English inflection; President Roosevelt would be another example of this. Then there were those who did make it a point to speak "Standard American English" even though there was really no place in The United States where people would speak this way by region; here's an example of this by a very famous American newscaster: watch?v=LZWVUXA1qbg
Gil Fates described Cerf's accent as upper east side Manhattan New York gentry. That lisp is not part of some speech impediment -- it was part of the accent at that time. Don't know if it still exists in New York City in 2013.
You're quite welcome. By the same token, there is something called "Standard British English" which does have "real life" speakers based (though not primarily) by region though it's my understanding that the percentage of people who speak this way is rather small.
