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...after the show." Actually, he confessed later, "it smelled like a rancid omelet." The makeup nicely underscored Boswell's own assertion: "I will not make my tiger a cat to please anybody." The old tiger was even more eloquent. In a swipe at the crusty Scottish father of Boswell (Kenneth Haigh) he roared: "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel!" After a round of bullying Oliver Goldsmith he purred: "Come, come, we offended one another with our contention. Let us not offend the company by our compliments...
Died. Melvin Maynard Johnson, 86, topflight Mason, dean (1935-43) of the Boston University Law School; in Boston. A veteran Masonic official, he was Illustrious Sovereign Grand Commander, Supreme Council, 33rd Degree, Ancient Accepted Scottish Rites of Freemasonry for the Northern Masonic Jurisdiction of the U.S.A. from...
...Bonnets off!" from Highland chiefs), was largely self-taught. His portrait of the two older Ferguson boys, The Archers, was painted when Raeburn was only 31, but in its bold composition device and dramatic lighting it ranks with the best of his work. Allan Ramsay was another Scottish painter, whose paintings managed to catch the character of his sitters so definitively that Philosopher David Hume commissioned him to paint the famed French writer-philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau, in his outlandish purple caftan and fur cap, while Rousseau was living in exile in London...
Ginger-colored Thomasina is the pet of a vet named Andrew MacDhui in a little Scottish town called Inveranoch. Thomasina is actually part-narrator of this book. She is a guid Scots puss and purrs with a burr; before Author Gallico is through with the unfortunate beast she does everything but carry a Harry Lauder cane and sing I Love a Lassie...
Died. Jack Buchanan, sixtyish, versatile British song-and-danceman, TV performer and London theater owner; of spinal arthritis; in London. Scottish-born Buchanan once taught Laurence Olivier how to twirl a cane and twinkle his feet, was a leading comic at 19, made his first of many Broadway appearances in Andre Chariot's Revue of 1924 (with Beatrice Lillie, Gertrude Lawrence...