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...Old-School Tie. "Public schools"-for boys-number some 180, of which only 33 are really of "old-school tie" standing. They are wholly supported by fees (?120 to ?250 a year) and endowments. Their curriculum is now very like that of Britain's state schools. The "public" schools' few scholarships are worth only ?40 to ?100, so that fees are heavy even for scholarship winners. The "public" schools are thus virtually closed to all but children of well-to-do parents...
...chosen by competitive examination. Those passing will be given an 18-month traveling scholarship to study languages and history abroad. (Said Liberal M.P. Vernon Bartlett: "It will no longer be almost essential to have a silver spoon in one's mouth when one is born or an old-school tie when one is adolescent...
Leighton and Bloch's prize-winning comedy "Spring Again" finally brings the veteran C. Aubrey Smith back to the stage; where he belongs. Long typed by Hollywood as the old-school tie and "all that sort of rot" kind of Victorian Englishman, Smith finds himself in his own element as the lovable old American gentleman, Halstead Carter. An able supporting cast, headed by Grace George and Ann Andrews, and the excellent direction of Guthric McClintic combine to fashion an enjoyable play despite the handicap of an old and unwieldy plot...
Miss Mitchell has no quarrel with the British people, having more than a touch of their own spunk herself, but she cringes at the pious hypocrisy and old-school stupidity which British rule has clamped over India for 150 years. To her, the British Raj hasn't changed since Kipling left the Punjab. To the Raj, India is still the cornerstone of the Empire and must be held at all costs. The timeworn clichés with which excesses and failings have been shrouded Miss Mitchell attacks with a Bryn-Mawrian vigor implemented with the background of nine years...
Indoor Girl. Although Rita's hair has turned, her head hasn't. As the modern exponent of old-school showfolk, she merely follows a new line of a traditional family business. Offscreen she is easygoing and sometimes inert. Before the camera she is bright as a dollar. Her family were always "clever show people," Rita is no exception...