A Highland Fling Pleasing Fantasy and Fun
"A Highland Fling" Pleasing Fantasy and Fun THE GHOSTIR GOES tO HEAVEN •A HIGHLAND FLING." By v Margaret Curt*. Presented and ttaood try G—tf Abbott. At tk* Plymouth. Thomtr: Hart**** Cutis...
...the author has written herself a sweet, frail part as "Silly," daft Agnes and gives it an eerie charm...
...Thomtr: Hart**** Cutis has her fling at aha Plymouth Theatre these nights, and it's aa engaging piece and performance aha turns it into...
...The audience is mostly satisfied, too...
...Ralph Farbes makes a lusty Old spirit...
...When he discovers that his kisses are cold to her lips, however, he decides to reform the town sinner and win his way to heaven...
...The twilight falls on castle walls excellently designed by John Root...
...There are high jinks in Scotland* these a]tany a year, for the Scone Stone, en which the kings of England (tinea 1IM) sit to be crowned, was not really stolen away to Westmiaater- Abbey at all, but is gaarded in Scotland, by the lairds as* Cairn MeGorum...
...He and the sinner both vacillate, but things work out to most everyone's satisfaction...
...and it's a pleasure to hear the proud wail of the bagpipe once again...
...J. T. S. MO THEATRES OFFER "BUFFALO BILL" FILM The Technicolor saga of the wild West's most famous adventurer and showman...
...The angel and the ghost, and the daft girlie, are handled with a tender though far from sentimental touch...
...and the author underscores them without everstressing...
...if the drama flags at times, it catches us euickly again with a deft play cf whimsy or humor...
...And the large cast —including Patti Brady as Little Bess (though John Ireland slipped m his Scots accent once in a while) —moves harmonicusly in the comic •pirit...
...The main guard ia an auld ghostie, dead these hundreds of years...
...his wife tempts him (she's an angel now), tempts him with heaven, but for a time he prefers daft Agnes ("The Lady of Shalott") on earth...
...their failings are such as we share...
...Decidedly, you take the mgh road when you go to "A Highland Fling...
...The Soots folk are seen with a kindly good humor...
...Buffalo Bill" heads the new show at the RKO Albee Theatre this week accompanied by "Seven Days Ashore," comedy with music maturing Marcy McGuire, Alan Carney and Wall Brown...
Vol. 27 • May 1944 • No. 21
