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Without Commercials. Dickens' A Christmas Carol was the broadcasters' 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...
Shower of Stars (Thurs. 8:30 p.m., CBS). A Christmas Carol, with Fredric March, Basil Rathbone...
...Dunn, a mezzo-soprano of Dag-mar-like proportions, made a fine, feline mehitabel; diminutive Baritone Jonathan Anderson made the best-voiced cock roach in history, and a vocal quartet called the Four Heatherstones supplied bacchanalian backgrounds. This spring Columbia Records will release an archy and mehitabel album, starring Carol Channing. But Kleinsinger and Darion expect the bulk of their royalties to result from the opera fever that has broken out across the U.S. among amateur and semi-pro groups. University workshops in particular have eagerly seized on such short works as Gian-Carlo Menotti's The Tele phone...
...annual Christmas Carol services of the Harvard University Choir and the Radcliffe Choral Society will be presented today...
Both Lowell and Eliot have planned festivities for Monday night. The Lowell dinner will be followed by the traditional lighting of the Yule log by Housemaster Elliott Perkins '23. The Lowell play, "The London Merchants," will follow carol singing. The Eliot House dinner will precede the House play, "The What D'yecallit," and carol singing...