Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cuts recklessly into the lives of the hero and heroine, the story has some of the horrible fascination of the old Saw Situation of silent days. One of Big Tom's evil associates (Jay Robinson), a sort of Ivy League Peter Lorre, picks up a rich girl (Carol Ohmart) and her naval escort (Arthur Franz) in a fancy bar and offers to take them slumming where the piano is progressive. Big Tom is there, and he dances with the girl in a forward way. "That's how I operate." he murmurs, breathing hard, "two times normal and twice...
...once a Chicago city editor who assembled his reporters and decreed: "What this newspaper needs is some new cliches." The same man, or someone just like him, is now roving through television as vice president in charge of promoting annual, trumped-up presentations of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. For the first of this season's versions, televised last week, the VP persuaded CBS and Chrysler's Shower of Stars to turn the durable old holiday cliche into elaborate but dismal humbug...
...Alcoa Hour (Sun. 9 p.m., NBC). The Stingiest Man in Town, new musical version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol...
...Harvard Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society will sing at the annual Christmas Carol Services today at 4:30 p. m. and 8:15 p.m. in Memorial Church. The service will be conducted by George A. Buttrick, Preacher to the University...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). Musical version of A Christmas Carol, with Fredric March (color...