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Bing soon mops up these messy situations. He gets his daughter admitted to an exclusive girls' school by calling Old Headmistress Ethel Barrymore "darling," and by singing an oldtime vaudeville number at the school's annual musicale. As for his son, Bing gets one of his songs, Just for You, published. Sample lyric: "Spring is here and all the pretty flowers that grow, grow just for you. Skies are clear and all the little stars that glow, glow just for you." At about this point, when it is plain that Bing will make the grade with his children...
...Barbara," reported another teacher, "seems completely unaware of how disturbing an influence she is." The perturbation was caused largely among the male student body. One evening during Barbara's second year, Putney's headmistress discovered one of the boys kissing Barbara. She wrote to Norman suggesting that he would do well to send his daughter to another school. Andrebrook, an all-girl establishment as free of temptation as a French convent school, was recommended. Norman agreed, but his daughter persuaded him to let her have a run first in greener pastures...
Margaret Rutherford is thoroughly convincing as the bulldozing, bustling headmistress, who labels the situation "an ascending spiral of iniquity." Alastair Sim is equally good as the distracted headmaster faced with invasion, whose favorite position is a tragic out-the-window gaze...
...gives them both plenty of opportunities. Sim plays the smug, hand-rubbing headmaster of a boys' school who is thrown for a loss when a mixed-up Ministry of Education dumps a girls' school on the premises. ("Someone," he moans, "is guilty of an appalling sexual aberration.") Headmistress Rutherford is the formidably efficient battle-ax who leads the invasion, tackles one of the problems of boys-&-girls-together by canceling biology classes...
Back at Bryn Mawr she worked up to acting dean of the college, moved on in 1930, to become headmistress of Manhattan's Brearley School. In 1932, she married Dr. Rustin Mclntosh, director of the Babies Hospital at Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, bore five children without breaking her career for more than a few months at a time...