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...play, to act Peter Standish; using a new British ingénue, Heather Angel, for Helen Pettigrew. Heather Angel's name is not a pseudonym. Daughter of an Oxford lecturer who was killed in the War, she attended a London dramatic school, took to the stage when its headmistress died. Her first real part was in the London stage production of The Sign of the Cross. Good shot: Peter Standish wondering whether history ("It doesn't happen that way") is really sufficient reason for not breaking off his engagement with Kate Pettigrew...
...Moslem sepoys fought the great Indian Mutiny. Because a Moslem fanatic proclaimed himself a redeemer or Mahdi in Egypt 40 years ago, thousands of Egyptians rebelled, left the bland head of Charles George ("Chinese") Gordon stuck on a spike at the gates of Khartoum. Last week because a Swiss headmistress hoisted the skirts and paddled the bottom of naughty Turkiya Hassan at Port Said's Al Salaam Missionary School, Egypt was threatened with still another Holy War. Vexed, Turkiya Hassan walked to the police, cried that she had been beaten because she had refused to be baptized a Christian...
...cinematic evidence of the many little rigors in the Prussian school for officers' daughters to which Manuela is sent, Manuela's adolescent tortures lack credibility. The best the play can do is to show a score of submissive young girls marching under the iron eye of limping Headmistress von Nordeck; to state that their food and heat are to be curtailed (although the young ladies on the stage seem plump and warm enough); to picture them tucked into a dormitory full of little white beds which would have very little terror for U. S. boarding school girls...
Died. Mary Robbins Hillard, 70. founder and headmistress of socialite Westover School for girls at Middlebury (Conn.); of influenza; at Middlebury...
Last week Fermata obtained a new headmistress to succeed Mary M. Elder, Oxford graduate. Principal Tabor announced that next year's headmistress would be Emma Barber Turnbach, former singing director and headmistress for the last ten years at quiet Dongan Hall on Staten Island, N. Y. Headmistress Turnbach, aged about 45, is short, scholarly, charming. A onetime graduate student at Chicago and Columbia, she is a middling disciplinarian, interested chiefly in music...