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...Scottish wars; "Bothy Ballads of Scotland"--a collection of songs found in bothies, which are the lodging-houses of ploughmen on great estates; and (this time on Tradition) "Classic Scots Ballads"--a collection of just that. Another Scottish folksinger is Jeannie Robertson, who is what they call "an auld dear," and who is billed as "The Greatest Scottish Folksinger" on a Prestige International recording. The accent makes the recording listenable--I know of no better way to polish up one's glottal stops...
Greyfriars Bobby (Buena Vista). Once upon a time, about a hundred years ago, a frisky little Skye terrier lived in the Lammermuir Hills near Edinburgh and loved Auld Jock the shepherd with dogged devotion. One day, too old to earn his keep, the shepherd (Alexander Mackenzie) was heartlessly turned off the croft. The terrier followed his master to town, sat by his side while he died in a dismal padding ken, followed his coffin to Greyfriars kirkyard, plumped himself down on the old man's grave to spend the night. "No dogs allowed!" the sour old sexton (Donald Crisp...
...North) so far in 1961, offers this glossy rebrush of the book. Children will do well to sit up and beg for the film, and even grown-up judges may affectionately award it a tear-soaked blue ribbon. Actor Mackenzie is wonderfully canty and touching as Auld Jock-and as a muttinee idol the Skye's the limit...
Thus far, the people-to-people, international goodwill aspect of the tour has been fulfilled almost beyond expectations. In Japan, where choral singing has been taken up with almost religious fervor, four groups from Japanese universities joined the Americans in a booming, 400-voice rendition of "Auld Lang Syne...
...Their idea of a veterans' meeting is not to salute the flag and then sit down to play pinochle; they decide, with the help of an imaginative racketeer (Akim Tamiroff), to rob five Las Vegas casinos at the same time-to wit, when everyone in town is singing Auld Lang Syne on New Year...