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...actors. The producers of Nickleby have permitted Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Dame Sybil Thorndike, Stanley Holloway & Co. to tear into their meaty parts with about as much finesse as a pack of jackals. Still, this particular melodrama-which intersperses the quarrels between a vicious uncle and his virtuous nephew with a savage attack on the schools of Dickens' day -scarcely deserves better treatment...
Flora Robson carries the message of the picture as she gradually comes to realize that Naziism is not "in the blood" of Frieda, the fraulein whom her nephew married to repay for helping him escape from a German prison camp. Miss Zetterling portrays a hard-faced, stoical Frieda at first, but gradually develops her role of the misunderstood German girl, hated by the small English town into which she has been thrust, until her husband finally comes to know and love her as the warm, understanding person...
...aura of hostility greets Frieda when she arrives in Denfield before the war has even ended. Miss Robson as Aunt Nora, a "cold, logical woman," realizes that her chances to gain a seat in the House of Commons are ruined if she condones her nephew's marriage to a German. Publically she proclaims that all Germans are alike and thus voices the belief of most others as well. But privately she tells Frieda that in six months nine-tenths of the community would come to accept her but there would always be the other tenth...
...custom of giving TIME for Christmas has moved many of you to remember friends, relations, associates in all categories with a gift of TIME. For instance, a Camden, NJ. attorney wrote us: "Among those whom I want to remember at Christmas are my nephew at college, a lawyer associate, a doctor, a clergyman, a salesman, my barber, a school teacher, an automobile mechanic, and a radio repair man. For all of them, a subscription to TIME fills the bill to perfection...
Strong odors of gas awakened Blake Armstrong of 13 Hampshire Street, Everett, at 3:30 Saturday morning, and rushing down to the cellar he found his nephew, a graduate student of English here, had taken his life...