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Playing skirts on a bagpipe that has been in the Carnegie family for 40 years, sporting kilts and the black, green and plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give...
Last week she had it. a garish tartan, bearing an NRA label and a price tag for $4.98, with the message: "In answer to your prayer to President Roosevelt...
...Balmoral was held the Gillies' Ball, for the 270 footmen, housemaids, gamekeepers, beaters and guides of the estate. With seven pipers skirling "Hielan' Ladie," the royal party entered the great hall. Over her jeweled gown Queen Mary wore a taffeta shoulder sash of Royal Stuart tartan. In the musicians' gallery was King George's favorite dance orchestra, Mrs. Annie Shand's Band from Aberdeen, which has played at every servants' ball at Balmoral since the War. Mrs. Annie Shand and her band gallantly tackled the Greek national anthem for the royal foreigners. While King...
Thrifty Scots much prefer a drawing room to the expensive sort of "courts" Their Majesties hold in London. Wearing no court gear, proud Scotsmen arrived in stiff tartan kilts, squiring their soft-skirted women. Beside George V. who wore the Scots Greys' scarlet and gold, Queen Mary convexed majestically in a gown of silver and pastel pink lace upon which blazed the 106-carat Koh-i-nor. Scots gossips twittered that before King Edward set the present style for London courts. Queen Victoria used to hold drawing rooms "when her Mistress of the Robes was the present Duke of Buccleuch...
...member of the famed Campbell clan, Mr. Moore is descended from the Earl of Argyll who befriended Mary, Queen of Scots. Proud of his Scottish ancestry, he has never worn his clan tartan of navy, black, red and green. His interest in the Cowal Games of the U. S. is sporting rather than historical. After schooling at St. Paul's, Mr. Moore joined Peary's Arctic Expedition in the summer of 1897. The next summer he hunted polar bear in Hudson Bay. After graduating from Yale in 1903, he spent a year touring and buying horses in Arabia...