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...Christmas Carol (Wed. 8 p.m., ABC). Retold on radio for the twelfth time by Lionel ("Scrooge") Barrymore...
...more imperturbably it shrugs at the death of men by millions. Hence, too, the surprising fact that the name of one of the century's three or four most remarkable writers is still practically unknown in the U.S. For Franz Kafka's unrelenting theme, told and retold in some of the greatest horror stories ever written (The Castle, The Trial, Metamorphosis, the stories in The Great Wall of China), was the nature of God and man's relationship...
...needing money, he returned to fiction with sardonic, sentimental fairy tales like Three Wise Guys, the story of the Nativity retold in Runyon's "historical present," by a modern Grimm who talked out of the corner of his mouth. With Howard Lindsay, he turned out a play, A Slight Case of Murder. A score of his stories (Little Miss Marker, etc.) became movies; a few, like The Big Street (1942) he produced himself. Hearst christened The Brighter Side, the daily column where Runyon's endearing ignoramuses, Joe and Ethel Turp, were born...
Every shady move in this fast crook movie has been tested and approved, time & again, at the boxoffice. But the familiar yarn, retold with energy, skill and loving corroborative detail, is still serviceable. John Garfield, head con man in as seedy a gang of characters as ever plotted a swindle, sets out to relieve a rich widow of her $2 million. His enthusiasm for his work naturally increases when the lady with the bankroll turns out to be Geraldine Fitzgerald. In time, of course, True Love, plus a visit to the mission at Capistrano, makes a new, upright...
...clay country around Marietta, Ga. an old story was retold. An ancient and destitute woman had scrabbled for years in one of the town's back streets. One day she took sick and a squad of church ladies moved in, tidied her shack, bathed her, dressed her in clean clothes and tucked her into a clean bed. When they called next day, they found the old woman and her bed back in the familiar rags. "I just wasn't comfortable," she explained. "I'll have to git used to them clean clothes gradual...