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...Devils. In it Thomas takes on the problem of the existence in a comfortable and cultured city of the vilest depths of misery and degradation, and the question of whether a good end can justify any means. The first of these great issues is largely muffled in Dickensian-Hogarthian picturesqueness for the slums, and clumsy, over-literary, rhetorical prose for the cultured quarters. The second problem, once stated, is largely ignored...
...scuttles back and forth between her American in-laws and the Indian claimant, sister Beth finds a romantic solution that makes everyone happy-so happy that Elephant Hill's Dickensian climax reads far too untrue to be good. Luckily, this is not the case with a preceding string of incidents that show Author White in his liveliest vein, e.g., an Indian amateur production of Samson and Delilah (featured as Delilah and Simpson, or The Strong Man of Whiskers Reduced by Reason of Passions). Another high point is the long-dreaded moment when the missionaries tell their adopted...
Less U, More H. Co-Author Frank's tear-shot camera eye pans in on Sheilah Graham when she was still Lily Sheil, a grimy Cockney moppet of six being carted away to the East London Home for Orphans. The eight orphanage years were Dickensian. Eventually Lily found a job as a skivy (housemaid) but soon chucked it. She had a chance to demonstrate a U-shaped toothbrush ("It fits the inside of your teeth") and her pearly performance caught the eye of U-born Major John Graham Gillam, D.S.O. It was a case of an 18-year...
...Bailey, a revolutionary Paris square with guillotine, and some 30 other sets, cutting from love duets to orgies of hate, CBS gave Charles Dickens' A Tale of Two Cities a revival that all but burst out of the TV screen. The play roiled with revolutionary turmoil, rang with Dickensian speeches by such able players as Denholm Elliott in the role of Charles Darnay, Rosemary Harris as his wife, Eric Portman as Dr. Manette and Agnes Moorehead, who played Madame Defarge as if the revolution depended on it. But Tale was the finest hour-and-a-half for Director Robert...
After reading your article, millions of Americans will laugh those three Dickensian characters (Superintendent Threatte, Board Chairman Thigpen and Member Crum) to scorn, and that sweet little old lady in your portrait will be Baskin in the warm sunshine of public sympathy and approval...