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...sporty Edinburgh lawyer: their first child, a daughter; on the Carnegie estate, Skibo Castle, Scotland. Once reminisced an old Skibo servant: "I'll not forget the way he [Carnegie] looked up at the castle with that queer smile o' his. 'Steel built yon hame,' the auld mon said, 'but it's love that'll keep it together when I'm called away...
Rulers of the Sea (Paramount). Douglas Fairbanks Jr. and Margaret Lockwood in a yarn about a Scottish mechanic who invents a marine engine to replace sails on transatlantic ships, and his struggle to get it accepted. Through a welter of Scottish brrrrrrs, auld corbies, hoot mons, arson, engine trouble and coal shortage on the high seas, audiences are sustained by the foreknowledge that marine engines are now in general...
...downfall of liquor, undisturbed by crowds thronging shops to get their last drink of toddy, the potent, fresh or fermented palm tree sap which, retailing for 4? a pint, gives India's native drinkers most of their alcohol. At the Royal Yacht Club Britons drank champagne and sang Auld Lang Syne as midnight struck and prohibition went into effect in the Bombay Presidency (77,221 square miles). For Bombay's 8,000 foreigners, mostly located in the city of Bombay (pop. 1,161,383), the law meant liquor rations -seven bottles of whiskey, or 21 bottles of wine...
...Chairlie, for th' Jacobites, for Auld Scotia! Th' English canna dae tae Scrymgeour what they've done tae th' Cholmondeleys, th' Leveson Cowers, th' Majoribanks an' th' St. Johns, pronoonced Chumley, Leeson-Gore, Marshbanks an' Sinjin. Scrymgeour was just that afore th' Saxons landed. A rouse tae ye, TIME, but watch yer step...
...nick of time is he reinstated, and the oldest minx marries the shy music instructor, Philip ("Poop"), who calls his baby grand piano "B. G." For the final curtain Donkin stands alone in his study listening to the boys ("Old Crump," "Bimbo," "Flossie," and their pals) singing Auld Lang Syne...