Word: holidaying
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Brattle Theatre has taken a busman's holiday from its Shakespearean tragedy with two modern tours de force which provide a highly entertaining, if at times puzzling, program. Both Christopher Fry's "A Phoenix Too Frequent" and Thornton Wilder's "The Long Christmas Dinner" have their messages and their morals. Fortunately, however, these are practically unintelligible when surrounded by a superbly fantastic plot in the first play, and then kaleidoscoping ninety years in less than and hour in the second...
Christmas is no holiday at Harvard. Clifford K. Shipton '26 custodian of the University Archives pointed out yesterday that the University has never acknowledged the existence of a Yule recess. When students depart on Saturday, they will be celebrating their "mid-winter vacation"; presumably they will have nothing to do with trees, Santa Claus, or mistletoe...
...second largest plane crash in the nation's history, at Elizabeth, New Jersey yesterday gave an ominous beginning to holiday travel all over the eastern sea board...
Police in all six New England states yesterday reported plans to crack down on traffic regulations, especially on the highways, during the holiday season...
...Christmas Carol (Renown; United Artists) is a serviceable new edition of Charles Dickens' evergreen story,* arriving from Britain in time for the holiday trade. Several cuts below the best British film versions of Dickens (Great Expectations, Oliver Twist), the picture at times may tax a moviegoer's seasonal good will. Though Dickens' frank sentimentality calls for broad treatment, Brian Desmond Hurst's direction is too often heavy as well. Able Character Actor Alastair Sim is the dependable old brandy that gives this plum pudding a lift...