Word: schoolmistress
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...literary attack on the teacher, as Psychologist Charles analyzes it, had its first flowering during the flowering of New England. William Ellery Channing, for instance, seemed to think that the essential qualities of the schoolmarm were "gray hair and spectacles." Of his own schoolmistress he recalled: "Her nose was peculiarly privileged and honored, for it bore two spectacles. The locks which strayed from her close mobcap were most evidently the growth of other times." Clucking sympathetically, Oliver Wendell Holmes struck a similar note. The teacher he described in Elsie Venner was "a poor, overtasked, nervous creature-we must not think...
Highest praise must go to the principals. The generally high quality of both singing and acting fully compensates for the absence of big names. Brian Sullivan sings the tenor role of Grimes with understanding realism, and Ellen Orford, the widow schoolmistress, is touchingly played by Polyna Stoska...
Eighty-five years ago, Schoolmistress Anna Leonowens (Anna and the King of Siam) went to Bangkok to spread the blessings of "the English language, science and literature" among members of the royal family. It was more than half a century later when young Dr. Niels Eskelund arrived in Siam from Denmark...
...teachers, like the pupils, were of all kinds. The Russian instructor, a tile-maker by trade, had graduated from a university in Leningrad. Telegraphy was taught by retired Union Pacific operators. Emily herself had not had much formal education and played schoolmistress by ear. She thought it worked: "It's what a person can do and not the letters after a name that ought to count. I would take a teacher with a high-school certificate rather than a master's degree, if she had understanding...
...Charlotte, represented as a cute little turkey, is the most fictional creature in the film; she also happens to be the most lively and convincing character. Branwell, theatrical as he is, does have his moments of authentic, bitter agony. Odette Myrtil has very little to do as a Brussels schoolmistress, but she does it so well that for a little while the whole film looks intelligent. Such intelligence is the measure of the good movie Devotion might have been. It measures also the general shallowness of feeling, thought and characterization, and the ornate, destructive little successes of the film...