Word: directrix
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...Gallienne, founder-directrix of the Civic Repertory Theatre, was last week looking for a pig. She had to have one for her friend Josephine Hutchinson to carry when she plays Alice in Wonderland. A complete search of Manhattan's pet shops failed to reveal a suitable animal so Miss Le Gallienne wrote to the press about it. What she wanted was a pig that would not grow into a hog during the course of the play's run. She preferred a quiet animal that could make its public appearance without wiggling, kicking, snorting. An occasional squeal would...
...Pedagogical Congress in Turin. Her psychiatric studies and feminist activities brought her national recognition. The same year, aged 28, she was sent to Germany as Italy's representative at the International Woman's Congress where she was barred because she professed Socialism. Returning to Rome, she became directrix of the new Scuola Magistrate Ortofrenica (state institution for feeble-minded). Here was formulated the nucleus of what most pedagogs now know as the Montessori Plan. So adept did her backward children become that they outstripped conventionally-trained, normal children in public school examinations...