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...Green Years," today's offering, is A. J. Cronin's sentimental tale of the life of a Scottish boy who is hampered by poverty, a mean old grandfather, and a foolish old great-grandfather. Some splendid acting by Hume Cronyn and Charles Coburn help a lot, though no alchemist's miracle is achieved...
Calvinism was once virtually the American Faith. It came to New England with the Puritans, to New York with the Dutch Reformed, to Pennsylvania with the German Reformed. And wherever Scottish Presbyterians went in the U.S., predestination, 90-minute sermons, and the "Shorter Catechism" went with them...
When an overbearing Scottish bailiff tries to put an old woman's dog to death because she can't afford a license, the journalist makes an issue of it, a laughing stock of the politician, and a bride of his sympathetic daughter. The journalist is sued, enabling the plot to disentangle itself in a fast-moving, hilarious court scene. Through the failure of his plans, the father understands that men must be allowed to think for themselves, and that democracy is ultimately the only possible form of government...
...ever really turned the tide of a war, a cheery Scottish scientist named Sir Robert Alexander Watson-Watt* might claim to be the man. Sir Robert was the principal inventor of radar. The electronic watchdogs developed by him and his fellow "boffins" (secret war scientists) won the Battle of Britain for the outnumbered R.A.F. Sir Robert got a "well done"-the Order of the Bath...
...cast actually manages to seem Scottish. From David Brooks, who sang "Evalina" in "Bloomer Girl," through Lidija Franklin and Virginia Bosler, two talented dancers in the best DeMille tradition, down to all the various people who hang around in the mob scenes, the show smacks of authenticity, an effect which is boosted by David Ffolkes' costumes. It is, in fact, this quality that is the show's outstanding virtue. It's a sort of "Okla homa!" set in Scotland...