Word: caroll
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Stars Over Hollywood (Sat. 12:30 p.m., CBS). Edmund Gwenn in A Christmas Carol...
...present, Christmas here is confined to the concerts, carol singing, Christmas plays at the Houses, a number of trees in the House courtyards and the annual reading of "A Visit from Saint Nicholas" at the Union. The last was inaugurated in the early 1900's by Charles T. Copeland '82, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, emeritus...
...usual around this time of year, Christmastime is here. As is also usual, another version of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is here, too. The latest producers of this old classic make the same claims--"biggest, best ... most authentic version ever filmed"--as their predecessors did, but they live up to them...
...English film, "A Christmas Carol" stars Alastair Sim as old Ebenezer Scrooge. Sims gives something to the word "humbug" that would warm Dickens' heart. His growling, penny-pinching version of the shrewd, hated money changer is so frighteningly rendered as to make the audience fidget like Bob Crachit, Scrooge's poor, hard-working clerk. Sim's conversion to a kind, happy man among men is neither maudlin nor unbelievably...
...rest of the cast gives the right Dickensian background to Sim's mutterings and prancings. Unlike most of the movie versions of "A Christmas Carol," this one suggests some of the philosophy that lies behind the happily-ever-after story. Scrooge becomes a "good" man by spending the money gleaned from his evil doings...