Word: licht
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...story of The Little Minister concerns the Scottish village of Thrums and the alarm which overtakes its devout residents when they learn that Mr. Dishart (John Beal), the rector at Auld Licht, has fallen in love with a gypsy. The panic in the parish is only exceeded by that of Mr. Dishart himself who, when he becomes aware of the state of his feelings, decides that the gypsy is a wanton. Actually, as the audience knows, Babbie is not a prowling vagrant at all, but the ward of Lord Rintoul, who lives in a castle...
Said Author Sir James Matthew Barrie (Auld Licht Idylls, Peter Pan in Kensington Gardens, A Kiss for Cinderella) upon being made a Freeman of his native Kirriemuir which he immortalized as "Thrums" in A Window in Thrums (1889): "I remember once being called upon in America to speak to a women's college containing 900 girls, and I said I could not, but if they would come outside one at a time I would make 900 speeches to them...