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...they are today. (Later, of course, many of the songs were expurgated and tied with pink and blue ribbons.) Often as not, nursery-rhyme characters were said to have had real counterparts, ranging from stern deans (Dr. Fell) to crooked stewards (Jack Horner) to lovely chippies (Alice, or Elsie, Marley). Everyone knows that my pretty maid said: "I'm going a-milking, sir." But in 1698 some of the lines...
...favorite holiday show. Radio had at least four versions, including one starring the late Lionel Barrymore as Scrooge. For CBS-TV, Playwright Maxwell Anderson and Composer Bernard Herrmann teamed up to produce a musical Christmas Carol. Fredric March harrumphed and hammed as Scrooge, Basil Rathbone clanked and groaned as Marley's ghost and, although there were occasional tuneful moments, most Dickens' fanciers recoiled from the sight of the Spirit-of-Christmas-Present (Ray Middleton) bursting into operetta-like arias. In Manhattan, no viewer had an excuse for missing Scrooge since an excellent 1951 British film, starring Alistair...
...thing that has kept me going," one suddenly feels an overwhelming aversion to modern design. When Holden shouts inscrutable formulae and numbers into a telephone, one sickens of enlightened science and engineering. When Holden's loyal employees crowd around him to seek advice and solace, one longs for the Marley-Scrooge days when employees knew their place. When Holden orates about the necessity for expansion and research in modern industry, one feels a quick sympathy for William McKinley and Mark Hanna...
...considering till further slashes in students' opportunities to entertain. Apparently, it isn't enough to castrate three hours each afternoon. Football Saturdays, where the seven until eleven privilege is most needed, may well lose those hours, too. This is by no means official yet, but one can hear Marley's chains already, clanking gloomily in the restructures' minds...
...From Marley's ghost to Crachit's goose, the film is full of the kind of Christmas spirit that seems to be lost in today's world of Scrooges. One leaves the theatre singing carols, and wishing the usher a "good evening...