"Mrs. Belle wins a contest and stars in the biographical film 'Everybody's Favorite Teacher', filmed in her home town"--

When the principal tells first grade teacher Mrs. Belle that she must retire, she and her students wonder how they will keep in touch.

When a retired teacher substitutes as a summer camp teacher, she learns not to wear ballet slippers for hiking or fishing.

On a cruise around the world, a retirement present from her friends, Mrs. Belle dances the hula in Hawaii, the conga in Brazil, the highland fling in Scotland, the Mexican hat dance in Acapulco, and the limbo in Trinidad.

"Mrs. Belle has lost her ballet slippers, and the entire town must join forces to help her find them"--

In the third book of The Teacher Who Would Not Retire Series, Mrs. Belle delights her readers with humorious adventures, while wearing her colorful ballet slippers. Through her telescope, Mrs. Belle sights an unknown object in the sky, which turns out to be a new planet. NOW, the fun begins...

Playwrights have been depicting Hollywood as a cultural desert and an industry of profit-driven philistines ever since the early days of the movies. This collection of original essays covers the period from the 1920s to the present but concentrates on such contempory playwrights as David Mamet, Sam Shepard, David Rabe, Arthur Kopit, and Adrienne Kennedy. A substantial proportion of the volume is devoted to a discussion of the way in which these authors deconstruct Hollywood myths to reveal painful social and psychological issues in American life, providing a deeper and darker picture than the simple satires of movie-making in the 1920s and 1930s or Odets's comparison of the commercially debased Hollywood with the higher, purer art of the theatre. To complete and further complicate the picture, the volume concludes with essays on the African American experience, gay writers, and feminist writing as seen through the lens of Marlane Myer's ETTA JENKS. It is obvious that the legitimate stage remains a watchdog and constant critic of what is possibly the world's most powerful cultural phenomenon This book will be eargerly read by all students of film, theatre, and 20th century literature.