Word: carolled
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Although Night Train, directed by Carol Reed, lacks the polish of its Hitchcock predecessors, its sustained excitement is agonizing. Those who saw The Lady Vanishes will be pleased to rediscover the two cricket-playing English gentlemen of that film (Basil Radford & Naunton Wayne), who interrupt the plot's progress at the tensest moments to discuss devastating trivialities. This time they are upset about the declaration of war because it may make it impossible for them to retrieve their golf clubs which they left in Berlin. Steel-shafted clubs, they complain, will be hard to get in England with...
...their children, the lighting of the Christmas tree outside the White House on Christmas Eve, the brief radio message in which the President would speak Christmas greetings to the nation. Each year, after the family dinner on Christmas Eve, the President reads part of Dickens' A Christmas Carol to the young ones and the grownups-taking different selections in different years, but always including the opening scene of Scrooge's cold old countinghouse, always winding up with the flourish of Christmas dinner at the Cratchits and the jubilation of Tiny...
Talented refugees did their best to help their British hosts with holiday entertainments. In the crypt-shelter of one London church a nativity play, The Christmas Story, was scheduled to be performed by a German-refugee cast wholly composed of non-Aryans who are Christians. Traditional British carol singing, usually done by amateur groups who stroll from door to door, take up a collection which they donate to charity, and are invited in for drinks, was abandoned this year because of the black-out and night bombing. Officials did all they could to see that Christmas celebrations took place indoors...
...luxe London hotels offered Christmas goose and turkey dinners, and a quartet of carol singers in Dickens costumes were hired to wander from one smart London restaurant to another, taking up charity collections for the blind. As usual, London theatres staged the "Christmas Pantomimes" they have revived over & over for generations. In that hoary favorite Aladdin And His Wonderful Lamp last week a few blitz jokes were gently inserted - such as changing the line "Clear the way, clear the way!" into "All clear, all clear!" This year, more than ever, adult Britons went with their moppets to these children...
Professor Archibald T. Davison will lead in carol singing. Mr. Malcolm Holmes will also contribute violin solos, accompanied by Professor Edward Ballantine...