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DIED. Joyce Grenfell, 69, lanky, toothy British comedienne known for her hilarious one-woman shows and film portrayals of such dotty spinsters as the policewoman who poses as a girls' school sports mistress in the 1954 farce The Belles of St. Trinian 's; of cancer; in London...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 10, 1979 | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

Married. Ronald Searle, 47, scalpel-sharp British cartoonist, creator of the spindly legged fiends known as the Belles of St. Trinian's; and Monica Stirling, fiftyish, British novelist (The Boy in Blue) and Searle's longtime companion; he for the second time; in Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jul. 14, 1967 | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

RONALD SEARLE-Bianchini, 16 East 78th St. Searle has sharpened his pen for a vorpal bit of vivisection; the victims of his Anatomies and Decapitations in ink-and-wash-flatulent beldames with clinker eyes, lopsided popsies with liquid-cherry smiles-belong under glass in St. Trinian's biology lab. Through...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Art in New York: Nov. 8, 1963 | 11/8/1963 | See Source »

...Pure Hell of St. Trinian's (Continental). "Is it absolutely necess'ry to have all these young ladies in court...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gymslip Brigade | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

...young ladies in question are the infamous belles of St. Trinian's, a gymslip brigade of teacher's pests who terrorize one of the seamier seminaries in Britain's Poison Ivy League. The little horrors were hideously hilarious when they first came squiggling and splotching from the pen point of Cartoonist Ronald Searle. They even had a certain roachy charm in their first two films. But now the joke is as moldy as the girls-theater owners will be well advised to put the fans...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Gymslip Brigade | 9/29/1961 | See Source »

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