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...Story of Robin Hood and The Sword and the Rose, Producer Disney spent no more than $1,500,000. He took a small crew of technicians and not very famed actors to the same ground his story was lived on-in this case the Scottish Highlands. There, among the dingy granges and the ancient trods of the Trossachs country, where the furry cattle stand and stare in the emerald braes as they have for hundreds of years, he set up his cameras. The players appear to feel themselves living again in an age of fable, charm-changed into people...
...High land lassie, Helen Mary (Glynis Johns), but hesitates to marry her as long as he is fighting the English. Against them he wages a brilliant guerrilla war that finally discredits the British Secretary of State for Scotland, the cruel Duke of Montrose (Michael Gough), and brings a true Scottish patriot, the Duke of Argyll (James Robertson Justice) back to power. In the end, Rob, his bagpiper and his sword-squire strut through London Town to get their pardon of King George I of England...
Change, as it must to all communities, has come to Philadelphia's Main Line, but along the Line can still be found French chateaux bordering colonial farmhouses, Moorish palaces nudging Scottish castles. And the old-style breed of Main Line aristocrat can still be found, holding on. In The Saving Grace, Novelist Mc-Cready Huston conducts a guided tour in the manner of a regional John P. Marquand. At the windup, Novelist Huston's poor but honest working girl has sidetracked her Main Liner into matrimony without even trying...
Templer will stay in Malaya until June. His successor: Sir Donald MacGillivray, 47, a Scottish diplomat whose job it will be to consolidate the peace that Templer made possible by war. Templer's new job is the top field command that Britain has to give. Under NATO Supreme Allied Commander General Alfred M. Gruenther, he will command British, Canadian, Dutch, Belgian and Danish troops guarding the vital plainlands between the Baltic and the Rhine. The backbone of his command: some 80,000 men of Britain's Army of the Rhine, which includes the heaviest concentration of armor (three...
These Christmas presents were as nothing, however, compared to the plans that the 400,000-strong National Union of Railwaymen was making for the whole nation last week. Getting nowhere after months of negotiations with the boss-the government-the N.U.R.'s strapping Scottish Secretary Jim Campbell threatened to bring all British railways to a full stop over Christmas. "My men are sick, sore and sorry," he said. "They feel that they are on the losing end of nationalization...