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...Viceroy is a Scottish banker from rock-ribbed Edinburgh, his feelings at this display of money to burn were doubtless even more excruciating than Reynolds' Illustrated News hinted...
...tortuous history, those concerning its scenery are the most prodigious and painful. Director Reinhardt and Producer Weisgal originally conceived their show as occupying its own specially constructed tabernacle with a cast of 3,000. This paranoiac aspiration did not quite come true, but Mr. Weisgal did rent from the Scottish Rite the vast old Manhattan Opera House around the corner from the Pennsylvania Station. Mr. Bel Geddes began to tear out the theatre's interior, a cast of 220 began rehearsing and the premiere was set for Dec. 23, 1935. First thing that happened was that the stage required...
...real name was John Graham of Claverhouse, but the muttering Scottish Covenanters pronounced it "Bluidy Clavers." A gentleman, a hard-bitten soldier, Clavers had come back to Scotland from the Low Countries to see his dying mother, and at her behest stayed on to serve Charles II. His inglorious job was to uphold the unpopular Established Church, put down the dissenting Covenanters with a heavy hand. A misogynist, Clavers was faithful only to his duty. Nearly everyone hated...
...TIME, Dec. 21). The fact that Edward VIII had apparently quit, and was even being called contemptuously a "quitter" last week, failed to appease the patient resolve of Scotsmen to know all, sooner or later. The adjournment of the House of Commons in London last week was welcomed by Scottish constituents as an opportunity to get their Scottish M. P.'s on the carpets of their homes during the Christmas holidays and make them come clean. About results of this discreet procedure the Scottish Press will speak in its own time, tersely...
Honored by San Franciscans on an officially proclaimed John McLaren Day was the city's grizzled 90-year-old Park Superintendent, a Scottish gardener who in 1887 started his transformation of 1,000 acres of sandy wasteland into world-famed Golden Gate Park...