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Sir Edward Seymour Hicks (30 January 1871 – 6 April 1949), better known as Seymour Hicks, was a British actor, music hall performer, playwright, screenwriter, actor-manager and producer. He became known, early in his career, for writing, starring in and producing Edwardian musical comedy, often together with his famous wife, Ellaline Terriss. His most famous acting role was that of Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.
Making his stage début at the age of nine and performing professionally by sixteen, Hicks joined a theatrical company and toured America before starring in Under the Clock in 1893, the first musical revue ever staged in London. Following this, he starred in a revival of Little Jack Sheppard at the Gaiety Theatre, London which brought him to the attention of impresario George Edwardes. Edwardes cast Hicks in his next show, The Shop Girl, in 1894. Its success led to his participation in two more of Edwardes's hit "girl" musicals, The Circus Girl (1896) and A Runaway Girl (1898), both starring Terriss. He first played the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in 1901 and eventually played it thousands of times onstage. Hicks, along with his wife, joined the producer Charles Frohman in his theatre company and wrote and starred in a series of extraordinarily successful musicals, including Bluebell in Fairyland (1901), Quality Street (1902), The Earl and the Girl (1903) and The Catch of the Season (1904).
A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost-Story of Christmas, commonly known as A Christmas Carol, is a novella by Charles Dickens, first published in London by Chapman & Hall on 19 December 1843. The novella met with instant success and critical acclaim. A Christmas Carol tells the story of a bitter old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge and his transformation into a gentler, kindlier man after visitations by the ghost of his former business partner Jacob Marley and the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come.
The book was written at a time when the British were examining and exploring Christmas traditions from the past as well as new customs such as Christmas cards and Christmas trees. Carol singing took a new lease on life during this time. Dickens's sources for the tale appear to be many and varied, but are, principally, the humiliating experiences of his childhood, his sympathy for the poor, and various Christmas stories and fairy tales.
A Christmas Carol remains popular—having never been out of print—and has been adapted many times to film, stage, opera, and other media.
A Christmas carol (also called a noël, from the French word meaning "Christmas") is a carol (song or hymn) whose lyrics are on the theme of Christmas, and which is traditionally sung on Christmas itself or during the surrounding holiday season. Christmas carols may be regarded as a subset of the broader category of Christmas music.
The first known Christmas hymns may be traced to fourth century Rome. Latin hymns such as Veni redemptor gentium, written by Ambrose, Archbishop of Milan, were austere statements of the theological doctrine of the Incarnation in opposition to Arianism. Corde natus ex Parentis (Of the Father's heart begotten) by the Spanish poet Prudentius (d. 413) is still sung in some churches today. The early history is detailed in several books, including Noel: The History and Traditional Behind Christmas Carols (2010 Halifax Press ISBN 978-0-9829700-1-0)
In the ninth and tenth centuries, the Christmas "Sequence" or "Prose" was introduced in Northern European monasteries, developing under Bernard of Clairvaux into a sequence of rhymed stanzas. In the twelfth century the Parisian monk Adam of St. Victor began to derive music from popular songs, introducing something closer to the traditional Christmas carol.
Christmas or Christmas Day (Old English: Crīstesmæsse, meaning "Christ's Mass") is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed most commonly on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year, it is prepared for by the season of Advent or the Nativity Fast and initiates the season of Christmastide, which historically in the West lasts twelve days and culminates on Twelfth Night; in some traditions, Christmastide includes an Octave. Christmas Day is a public holiday in many of the world's nations, is celebrated culturally by a large number of non-Christian people, and is an integral part of the holiday season, while some Christian groups reject the celebration. In several countries, celebrating Christmas Eve on December 24 has the main focus rather than December 25, with gift-giving and sharing a traditional meal with the family.
Charles John Huffam Dickens (/ˈtʃɑːrlz ˈdɪkɪnz/; 7 February 1812 – 9 June 1870) was an English writer and social critic. He created some of the world's best-known fictional characters and is regarded as the greatest novelist of the Victorian era. His works enjoyed unprecedented popularity during his lifetime, and by the twentieth century critics and scholars had recognised him as a literary genius. His novels and short stories enjoy lasting popularity.
Born in Portsmouth, Dickens left school to work in a factory when his father was incarcerated in a debtors' prison. Despite his lack of formal education, he edited a weekly journal for 20 years, wrote 15 novels, five novellas, hundreds of short stories and non-fiction articles, lectured and performed extensively, was an indefatigable letter writer, and campaigned vigorously for children's rights, education, and other social reforms.
Dickens's literary success began with the 1836 serial publication of The Pickwick Papers. Within a few years he had become an international literary celebrity, famous for his humour, satire, and keen observation of character and society. His novels, most published in monthly or weekly instalments, pioneered the serial publication of narrative fiction, which became the dominant Victorian mode for novel publication. The instalment format allowed Dickens to evaluate his audience's reaction, and he often modified his plot and character development based on such feedback. For example, when his wife's chiropodist expressed distress at the way Miss Mowcher in David Copperfield seemed to reflect her disabilities, Dickens improved the character with positive features. His plots were carefully constructed, and he often wove elements from topical events into his narratives. Masses of the illiterate poor chipped in ha'pennies to have each new monthly episode read to them, opening up and inspiring a new class of readers.
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Recorded London, May 6 1932 with orchestra conducted ny Ray Noble. The film is a silent Pathe short made in 1922.
Christmas Cartoons! Christmas Films! Christmas Music! ► http://XmasFLIX.com ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX [This is the rare entire FULL film, not the shorter 60 minute version] Scrooge (1935) Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Starring Seymour Hicks [Complete Film] Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Sir Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other ver...
http://XmasFLIX.com ► Like! ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX Scrooge [aka A Christmas Carol] (1935) with Seymour Hicks (Full fillm edited to 10 Minutes!) "Scrooge" is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other versions of the story in one significant way - most of the ghosts, including that of Jacob Marley, are not actually shown onsc...
Scrooge is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_%281935_film%29
Here is the 1935 film Scrooge starring Sir Seymour Hicks in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This is the first sound version of Dickens' Christmas classic and I hope you enjoy it. It features Hick's in the role he made famous on the Stage. This version is unfairly forgotten next to the later adaptations. This is a transfer I just made from the 16mm film I own. Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all. Thank you all for your support, the ad revenue from Youtube helps me to purchase new films and continue with the transfers and uploads. Please continue to support the ads and DVD's
Car drives along a country lane. Intertitle invites audience to guess who the occupants of the car are. A woman and two men get out of the car with funny business going on - woman powders her nose before she will leave the car, man then powders nose of their Pekingese (Pekinese) dog. It is Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss and Stanley Logan. Comic moments revolve around things being dropped (cushions, powder puff, dog!) as the woman passes the men different things to hold. Intertitle reads: "After tea they joined the "listening in" brigade, on a new Radio set". The three of them sit around a large radio set and listen in through headphones. They all sing along to whatever it is they have found in the "ether". Intertitle reads: "Oh! the language! Someone must have been sendin...
Scrooge is a 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge. The film's cast included Seymour Hicks as Scrooge, William Lugg, Leedham Bantock, J. C. Buckstone, Dorothy Buckstone, Leonard Calvert, Osborne Adair, Adela Measor and Ellaline Terriss. Hicks had played the role of Scrooge regularly onstage since 1901 before this, his first appearance in the role in film. He was to play Scrooge again, in the 1935 film Scrooge. Scrooge was a Zenith Film Company production, by whom it was also distributed on its release date in September 1913. Some scenes in the black and white 35mm film were colour toned.
With Sir Seymour Hicks and Mlle.Geneviève de Séréville (London, 1.939)
Christmas Cartoons! Christmas Films! Christmas Music! ► http://XmasFLIX.com ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX [This is the rare entire FULL film, not the shorter 60 minute version] Scrooge (1935) Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Starring Seymour Hicks [Complete Film] Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Sir Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other ver...
Scrooge is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_%281935_film%29
Here is the 1935 film Scrooge starring Sir Seymour Hicks in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This is the first sound version of Dickens' Christmas classic and I hope you enjoy it. It features Hick's in the role he made famous on the Stage. This version is unfairly forgotten next to the later adaptations. This is a transfer I just made from the 16mm film I own. Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all. Thank you all for your support, the ad revenue from Youtube helps me to purchase new films and continue with the transfers and uploads. Please continue to support the ads and DVD's
The Swoop! - audiobook P. G. WODEHOUSE (1881 - 1975) The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." (ch. 1) — and features references to many well-known figures of the day, among them the politician Herbert Gladstone, novelist Edgar Wallace, actor-managers Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes, and boxer Bob Fitzsimmons. (Summary from Wikipedia) Genre(s): Fantastic Fiction, Humorous Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
Scrooge is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound .
With Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge and Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley's Ghost
This is the first sound version of the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and it also is the only adaptation of the story with an invisible Marley's ghost. Seymour Hicks plays the title role in this British import about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. He wakes up on Christmas morning a changed man. A public domain classic.
Please join us for lunch every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 at La Scala Italian Bisto in Dublin, Ohio. For more information, please visit http://DWRotary.org
pt 2 of The Coming Glory! Explaining the prophecies that are unfolding now, from Tommy Hicks, William Seymour, Charles Parham.
http://XmasFLIX.com ► Like! ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX Scrooge [aka A Christmas Carol] (1935) with Seymour Hicks (Full fillm edited to 10 Minutes!) "Scrooge" is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other versions of the story in one significant way - most of the ghosts, including that of Jacob Marley, are not actually shown onsc...
Tom Cole interviews Springfield High School football players Bryant Koback, D'Andre Hicks and Scottie Seymour on 11.1.15
Car drives along a country lane. Intertitle invites audience to guess who the occupants of the car are. A woman and two men get out of the car with funny business going on - woman powders her nose before she will leave the car, man then powders nose of their Pekingese (Pekinese) dog. It is Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss and Stanley Logan. Comic moments revolve around things being dropped (cushions, powder puff, dog!) as the woman passes the men different things to hold. Intertitle reads: "After tea they joined the "listening in" brigade, on a new Radio set". The three of them sit around a large radio set and listen in through headphones. They all sing along to whatever it is they have found in the "ether". Intertitle reads: "Oh! the language! Someone must have been sendin...
Subscribe now: https://www.youtube.com/c/funnyordie?sub_confirmation=1 In 1984, an alternate ending of Christmas Carol was made where Scrooge's encounter with ghosts was not actually a new beginning to his life as a better man. Watch the found footage with caution. Get more Funny Or Die ------------------------------- Like FOD on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/funnyordie Follow FOD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/funnyordie Follow FOD on Tumblr: http://funnyordie.tumblr.com/ Follow FOD on Instagram: http://instagram.com/funnyordie Follow FOD on Vine: https://vine.co/funnyordie Follow FOD on Pinterest: http://www.pinterest.com/funnyordie Follow FOD on Google+: https://plus.google.com/+funnyordie See the original at: http://www.funnyordie.com/videos/50e342e01c
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Recorded London, May 6 1932 with orchestra conducted ny Ray Noble. The film is a silent Pathe short made in 1922.
Christmas Cartoons! Christmas Films! Christmas Music! ► http://XmasFLIX.com ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX [This is the rare entire FULL film, not the shorter 60 minute version] Scrooge (1935) Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Starring Seymour Hicks [Complete Film] Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Sir Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other ver...
http://XmasFLIX.com ► Like! ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX Scrooge [aka A Christmas Carol] (1935) with Seymour Hicks (Full fillm edited to 10 Minutes!) "Scrooge" is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other versions of the story in one significant way - most of the ghosts, including that of Jacob Marley, are not actually shown onsc...
Scrooge is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_%281935_film%29
Here is the 1935 film Scrooge starring Sir Seymour Hicks in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This is the first sound version of Dickens' Christmas classic and I hope you enjoy it. It features Hick's in the role he made famous on the Stage. This version is unfairly forgotten next to the later adaptations. This is a transfer I just made from the 16mm film I own. Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all. Thank you all for your support, the ad revenue from Youtube helps me to purchase new films and continue with the transfers and uploads. Please continue to support the ads and DVD's
Car drives along a country lane. Intertitle invites audience to guess who the occupants of the car are. A woman and two men get out of the car with funny business going on - woman powders her nose before she will leave the car, man then powders nose of their Pekingese (Pekinese) dog. It is Seymour Hicks, Ellaline Terriss and Stanley Logan. Comic moments revolve around things being dropped (cushions, powder puff, dog!) as the woman passes the men different things to hold. Intertitle reads: "After tea they joined the "listening in" brigade, on a new Radio set". The three of them sit around a large radio set and listen in through headphones. They all sing along to whatever it is they have found in the "ether". Intertitle reads: "Oh! the language! Someone must have been sendin...
Scrooge is a 1913 British black and white silent film based on the 1843 novel A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. It starred Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge. In the United States it was released in 1926 as Old Scrooge. The film's cast included Seymour Hicks as Scrooge, William Lugg, Leedham Bantock, J. C. Buckstone, Dorothy Buckstone, Leonard Calvert, Osborne Adair, Adela Measor and Ellaline Terriss. Hicks had played the role of Scrooge regularly onstage since 1901 before this, his first appearance in the role in film. He was to play Scrooge again, in the 1935 film Scrooge. Scrooge was a Zenith Film Company production, by whom it was also distributed on its release date in September 1913. Some scenes in the black and white 35mm film were colour toned.
With Sir Seymour Hicks and Mlle.Geneviève de Séréville (London, 1.939)
Christmas Cartoons! Christmas Films! Christmas Music! ► http://XmasFLIX.com ► http://facebook.com/XmasFLIX [This is the rare entire FULL film, not the shorter 60 minute version] Scrooge (1935) Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" Starring Seymour Hicks [Complete Film] Scrooge is a 1935 British fantasy film directed by Henry Edwards and starring Sir Seymour Hicks, Donald Calthrop and Robert Cochran. Hicks appears as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. Hicks had previously played the role of Scrooge on the stage many times beginning in 1901, and again in a 1913 British silent film version. The 1935 film differs from all other ver...
Scrooge is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound version of the Charles Dickens classic A Christmas Carol, not counting a 1928 short subject that now appears to be lost. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrooge_%281935_film%29
Here is the 1935 film Scrooge starring Sir Seymour Hicks in an adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. This is the first sound version of Dickens' Christmas classic and I hope you enjoy it. It features Hick's in the role he made famous on the Stage. This version is unfairly forgotten next to the later adaptations. This is a transfer I just made from the 16mm film I own. Merry Christmas and a Happy Holidays to all. Thank you all for your support, the ad revenue from Youtube helps me to purchase new films and continue with the transfers and uploads. Please continue to support the ads and DVD's
The Swoop! - audiobook P. G. WODEHOUSE (1881 - 1975) The Swoop! tells of the simultaneous invasion of England by several armies — "England was not merely beneath the heel of the invader. It was beneath the heels of nine invaders. There was barely standing-room." (ch. 1) — and features references to many well-known figures of the day, among them the politician Herbert Gladstone, novelist Edgar Wallace, actor-managers Seymour Hicks and George Edwardes, and boxer Bob Fitzsimmons. (Summary from Wikipedia) Genre(s): Fantastic Fiction, Humorous Fiction Language: English (FULL Audiobook)
Scrooge is a 1935 British film directed by Henry Edwards featuring Seymour Hicks as Ebenezer Scrooge, the miser who hates Christmas. It was the first sound .
With Albert Finney as Ebenezer Scrooge and Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley's Ghost
This is the first sound version of the novel "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, and it also is the only adaptation of the story with an invisible Marley's ghost. Seymour Hicks plays the title role in this British import about the miser who's visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve. He wakes up on Christmas morning a changed man. A public domain classic.
Please join us for lunch every Wednesday from 12:15 to 1:15 at La Scala Italian Bisto in Dublin, Ohio. For more information, please visit http://DWRotary.org
pt 2 of The Coming Glory! Explaining the prophecies that are unfolding now, from Tommy Hicks, William Seymour, Charles Parham.