Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Holworthy jam sessions are bad enough of themselves, despaired Winston McClellan '51, but the bagpipes of Leigh Cross '51 across the walk in Thayer Hall are like a cat on the fence that a slipper won't silence...
...bandsmen are reportedly guarding their big base drum in an unspecified hideout, anticipating a possible Terrier assault, and bagpiper Leigh Cross '51 was practising assiduously as rumors of a B. U. piper filtered in to the Paine Music Building last night...
...Some bands are content to play an accompaniment to a chorus line," said Skinner, adding that his group will continue to rest its reputation on the music it plays. The only skirts will be on bagpiper Leigh Cross...
...MacBean (Selena Royle) is glad to have Van around, and young Lissy (Janet Leigh) makes eyes enough for a whole county's quota of farmers' daughters. Gill MacBean (Thomas Mitchell) is less easily won over by the stranger. The Civil War has just been fought, and feeling still runs high. Barns are being burned by masked riders; Yankees and ex-Rebels still won't help each other out with the crops, or even keep their tempers at a party. Old Man MacBean, a 100% Rebel, has a burning question: Are the stranger's britches blue...
...title warns, this is just a romance; so any objections are bound to seem captious. There could be no objections to parts of the movie. The songs are pretty, Newcomer Janet Leigh is pretty to look at and there are some rather pretty bits of deep-country detail (e.g., hustling the hay in ahead of a storm). But Rosy Ridge attempts to base its romance on authentic and charming Americana. The job requires more than prettiness and benevolent patriotism. Faces, hands, clothes and postures need to suggest hard work, real life and a certain tension of character, rather than mere...