Reading an arrangement of 'A Christmas Carol,' by Charles Dickens
It is appropriate that one of our finest romantic actors should read the best-known Christmas story of Dickens, the great romantic. Mr. Loraine - who, by the way, acquired a great reputation as an airman during the war - has played a wide variety of parts, ranging from John Tanner in Shaw's 'Man and Superman,' to Rudolf Rassendyll and King Rudolf in 'The Prisoner of Zenda.' Other plays in which he has acted with notable success are 'The Rivals' (Bob Acres), 'Mary Rose,' 'The Way of the World' (Mr. Nigel Playfair's production at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith) and 'Cyrano do Bergerac.'