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...Glourie Castle in Scotland as penance for an act of characteristic levity committed during the 18th Century. Packed off to fight the English, young Glourie so far disgraces his station as to be killed while hiding behind a powder keg to avoid being thrashed by members of the rival clan of MacLaggan...
With this story incident as a prolog, the picture takes up the story of the Glourie clan on the contemporary scene, when the only member of it left is young Donald Glourie (Robert Donat). A shy, shiftless, personable young man, he lives alone in Glourie Castle waiting for someone who, by purchasing it, will free him from his creditors. When the purchasers-a U. S. chain-store proprietor (Eugene Pallette), his nervous wife and their pretty daughter (Jean Parker)-appear, Glourie Castle is moved piecemeal to Florida. The ghost goes with it. His penchant for crudely old-fashioned kissing games...
...clan under consideration in Let Freedom Ring is named McClure and is made of tougher fibre than most. Grandpappy ''fit the Yankees," who left three sabre slashes in his side. His daughters had been starved out of their birthplace only when nothing remained to eat except the dog. When his daughters and grandchildren finally revolt against wage cuts in the mill, Grandpappy supplies comic relief with his truculent ways and squirrel rifle. And when the best of his brood is finally pinked on the picket line. Grandpappy sings a hillbilly hymn of hate at the big funeral scene...
...they descended the scale from clipper ships to schooners, to coastwise steamers, to fishing smacks, to ferryboats. Silas Crockett II ended up working in a herring factory. Less a novel than a family chronicle, it is filled with glowing tributes to the sturdiness, to the unbeatable optimism of the clan, ends with an inspirational scene in which young Silas and his bride think back over the years and apprehend the radiant reality of their faith. Worldly readers may feel that the Crocketts, better endowed with backbone than with acumen, never properly realized that things were rapidly going from...
Died. Sir John Charles Montagu-Douglas-Scott, 71, Duke of Buccleuch and Queensberry, holder of 14 peerages, chieftain of the clan Scott, prospective father-in-law of George V's third son, the Duke of Gloucester (TIME, Sept. 9); in Selkirk, Scotland...