BONNIE PRINCE CHARLIE

Scottish Music & Dances:

“Bonnie Prince Charlie”

“Bonnie Prince Charlie,” starring David Niven and Margaret Leighton, which is coming to the King’s Theatre, contains a grand display of Scottish music and diancing, for the Prince himself was as gay as he was bonnie, and delighted in the songs and reels of his loyal clansmen.

Director Anthony Kimmins engaged the greatest experts in both lines.

Pipe Major Macdonald Murray, leading a band of Scottish is been in two traditional dances in the Derby barn scenes. One, a sword dance, is to the tune of “Ghillie Callum,” the other is the famous “Reel of Tullock,” which was always danced to celebrate a victory.

Another Pipe Major, the well-known Ian Macdonald, who has a collection of manuscripts of Jacboite songs and is an expert bagpipe player, was called in to supervise the background music. Among the popular tunes which will be heard fleetingly are “Charlie, he’s my Darling,” “My King has landed in Moidart,” “Macrimmon’s Lament,” “Ghillie Callum, ” “Lochiel’s Welcome,” and Somebody.”

In Technicolor the magnificence of the tartans comes cut in full splendour as the dancers leap and turn in the superb swagger of the reel. With the classic swing of the kilt and romantic skirl of the pipes, these scenes are a veritable feast of colour and movement.

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