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...Highland Fling" has its high and low spots which when considered together spell out only fair entertainment. A sort of dual plot provides the main themes for the play: the removal of the ancient Scottish Stone of Scone upon which the Scottish Kings were crowned, and the reformation of a reprobate Scotsman are intermingled to produce many comic and many not-so-comic situations...
...clear-eyed, clear-headed wonderland of woods and mountain people, innocent as rain, dodging the occasional attempts of his drunken kinspeople to kill him dead, and watching them-how they drink, dance, ride mules, fight and keep out of jail-with such sharpness that their archaic Kentucky highland talk is truer in his recording of it than it is on their lips. Some readers may regret that Jesse Stuart did not devote his entire novel to the boy's life...
...Thinks He Ought To Be An Officer Because Well Just Look At That Dumb Shavetail." The Army is chuck full of officers, so forget it if you're thinking of having your Old Man buy you a commission in the Black Watch or the Third Highland Fusileers when you graduate from A-12 or Boy Scout Troop...
There were awkward situations with foreigners (many of the royal relatives were Germans who never quite mastered English). Prince John of Glucksburg nearly caused a rising of the clans by shouting enthusiastically at a Highland ball: "I am agreeable to see the Queen dances like a pot." (He meant...
...Highland Park...