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Cronin's story records the efforts of Father Francis Chisholm to keep the special laws of this interior kingdom without getting into trouble with the laws of the world and the Catholic Church. Naturally, Father Chisholm is crucified. But his victory is his life...
That life begins in a small, intolerant Scottish village. Francis Chisholm felt an early affection for the rough, bluff, competent fishermen and workers of whom his father was one. But when Francis was nine, descendants of Covenanters stoned the elder Chisholm nearly to death because he was a Catholic. Trying to reach home afterwards on a slippery bridge across a flooded river, Father and Mother Chisholm were drowned...
After a harrowing experience working as a rivet-boy in a shipyard, living with a wicked relative, Orphan Chisholm is rescued by horse-faced Aunt Polly. With her Irish saloonkeeper brother, a bluff, generous trencherman ("Now, Polly, our friends' stomachs will be thinking their throats is cut"), Aunt Polly brings Francis up, sends him to Holywell Catholic College...
...justification if the cast were only to step out in front of the scenery and follow the orchestra through Rudolph Friml's famous score. The comedy does get pretty good in spots, and the immense Hope Emerson as Lady Jane, Don Gantier as Hard Bolled Herman and Robert Chisholm as the veddy, veddy English Sergeant Malone of the Mounties are all quite sufficient in this line. But the singing and dancing are the bread and wine of "Rose Marie" and its success must depend upon their excellence...
...rawhide stripped from their carcasses for years "held Texas together." Streaming up the Chisholm Trail and across deserts motorists still shy at, they were the founders of the U. S. ranching industry. Theirs was "the greatest, the most extraordinary, the most stupendous, the most fantastic and fabulous migration of animals controlled by man that the world has ever known." They gave character to a wide new country, grand as Siberia; they gave soul and shape to a new human breed, the Texas cowboy. Says Author Dobie: "I do not believe that any kind of riding will pump virtue into...