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...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...
Died. Mary Kingsbury Simkhovitch ("Mrs. Sim"), 84, famed Manhattan social worker, agitator for public housing, woman suffrage, federal aid to education, kindergartens; in Greenwich House, the famous settlement she founded 50 years ago. With her Russian-born husband, Columbia Professor Vladimir Simkhovitch, she started out by collecting $3,000 on Manhattan streets, moved into a drafty tenement on Jones Street, then one of the city's sleaziest. Soon she was giving parties for her polyglot neighbors, gradually began giving them milk, baby and dental clinics, a diet kitchen, cooking lessons, public baths, music lessons, a children's theater...
...Happiest Days of Your Life. A hilarious scene-stealing duel between Britain's Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford (TIME...
Margaret Rutherford is thoroughly convincing as the bulldozing, bustling headmistress, who labels the situation "an ascending spiral of iniquity." Alastair Sim is equally good as the distracted headmaster faced with invasion, whose favorite position is a tragic out-the-window gaze...
...Happiest Days of Your Life. A hilarious scene-stealing duel between Britain's Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford (TIME...