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...same work. Another is the reading of the nerve-racking part of Tiny Tim by eleven-year-old Terry Kilburn, who almost manages to make his notorious curtain line (''God bless us every one") seem warranted under the circumstances. Least appetizing shot: the greedy members of the Cratchit family gleefully fingering the pitiful corpse of their uncooked Christmas goose...
Scrooge is a British version of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, released for the U. S. Christmas trade by Paramount. A properly mean, frowzy, waspish Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a fine, spindly-legged Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop), a frail, treble-voiced Tiny Tim, and a number of thoroughly capable minor actors move through snowy London streets and warm Early Victorian interiors. Projected with tenderness but without sentimentality are the sequences showing the rousing Christmas of the Cratchit family. Good shot: Cockney harridans cackling over the belongings of the dead Scrooge in the Christmas-yet-to-come...
Professor Copeland will give a Christmas reading in the Dining Room of the Union this evening at 9 o'clock. The selections will be from Thackeray, Dickens, Kipling, and probably O. Henry. The only repetition from last year's reading will be "The Cratchit's Christmas Dinner." The doors will be closed promptly at five minutes past the hour, after which time no one will be admitted...
...Copeland will give the sixth and last of his series of lectures and readings in Sever 11 at 4 o'clock this afternoon. The reading will be from Dickens and will include the scene between David and Dora from "David Copperfield," "The Cratchit's Christmas Dinner," the last pages of "A Tale of Two Cities," and David Cabwber's separation from the Micawber. The first selection from "David Copperfield" will be the adaptation made by Dickens for his own reading...