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...Happiest Days of Your Life. Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in a farcical spoof of English public schools (TIME...
...Happiest Days of Your Life. Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford in a farcical spoof of English public schools (TIME...
...Your Life (London Films) is a nimble farce with a sound underpinning of character and comment. Though a few cuts below such blue-ribbon British comedies as Tight Little Island and Passport to Pimlico, it offers the rare inducement of watching two of Britain's best comics-Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford-as they steal scenes from each other...
Adapting a play by John Dighton, Scripter-Director Launder gives them both plenty of opportunities. Sim plays the smug, hand-rubbing headmaster of a boys' school who is thrown for a loss when a mixed-up Ministry of Education dumps a girls' school on the premises. ("Someone," he moans, "is guilty of an appalling sexual aberration.") Headmistress Rutherford is the formidably efficient battle-ax who leads the invasion, tackles one of the problems of boys-&-girls-together by canceling biology classes...
Gone for Good? The strike had been costly for both sides. The 400 striking Guildsmen together with the 1,000 A.F.L. printers, stereotypers and pressmen who had refused to cross Guild picket lines had already lost upwards of $1,000,000 in wages. The World-Telegram and Sim had lost a huge amount in advertising and circulation revenue. But the full cost of the strike to management was still an unknown quantity. While the W.T. & S. was off the newsstands, New York's two other evening papers had both increased their daily circulation. It was estimated that the Post...