America in the beginning was a bit of a Scrooge when it came to Christmas ... first community Christmas tree at Fountain Square in 1913, a 45-foot tree illuminated with 2,000 electric lights ...

A Message From Mars is a silent film from 1913 and also bears the distinction ... has to say about Horace when he's not around. In true Scrooge fashion, this pushes Horace to change his ways ...

Played Scrooge twice on TV on SHOWER OF STARS, first in 1954, then again in 1956. Played Scrooge multiple times on stage, then in 1913 in a silent film version, then in 1935 in the first "talkie" ...

In “A Christmas Carol,” the Ghost of Christmas Yet to Come shows the miserly Ebenezer Scrooge the death of a man unmourned by his community — a man Scrooge learns is himself when he wipes ...

THOSE with exquisite taste in Christmas films will be familiar with the scene in “The Muppet Christmas Carol” in which Dr Bunsen Honeydew and his sidekick Beaker solicit Ebenezer Scrooge for a ...

But what about those among us who are tight with funds? Surely, there’s room for a Scrooge’s Guide to Christmas gifts. Some thoughts: A box of matches. The welcome fall in the rate of smoking ...

BBC bosses have been accused of harassing pensioners by sending them letters threatening to call them on Christmas Day if they have no TV licence. A campaign group accused the Beeb of utilising ...

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Charles Dickens, in the most famous of his 19th-century morality tales, introduced us to the “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner” Ebenezer Scrooge.