Word: highlander
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Highland Fling (by Margaret Curtis; produced by George Abbott) is as Scottish as it sounds but hardly as lively. A yarn about the ghost of a rakish 18th-Century laird, it tries for both rowdy fun and romantic charm, never quite spears either...
...living sinner. He pitches on the neighborhood's lustiest devotee of Scotch, women and dice, and their efforts to outsmart each other provide the brightest moments in the play. In the course of it all Charlie outsmarts himself; no Heavenly fling, he discovers, can equal a good old Highland fling...
Jean Burton, who has made eccentrics her specialty (Elisabet Ney, TIME, April 5, 1943; Sir Richard Burton's Wife, TIME, June 23, 1941), has written a lucid, witty biography of the most successful, most enigmatic of these 19th-Century mediums. Daniel Dunglass Home was born in a small Highland village. His father was the illegitimate son of the tenth Earl of Home. His mother specialized in prognosticating the deaths of her best friends. In 1840 the Home family emigrated to the U.S., leaving Daniel in the care of his aunt, Mary Cook. When he was nine, Daniel...
...faculty. Communication troubles between South Africa's speakers of English and Afrikaans led him to think about an interlanguage. Later he and Hogben did some motorized pub-crawling from Aberdeen to London and back, planned The Loom between drinks. Bodmer wrote the book in Hogben's Highland croft, is now working on another book in London's intellectual Bloomsbury...
...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...