Sunday Post - 17.11.1940, Blaðsíða 3

SUNDAY POST
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“FEAR NAUGHTS and CROSSES”
THIS WEEK AT THE CINEMA.
♦
Gamla Bid
Goodbye, Hr. Chips.
Robert Donat, who gave the
Screen one of its finest perform-
ances as the idealistic doctor of
‘Citadel11, once again reveals his
consummate artistry and acting
skill in “Goodbye, Mr. Chips",
filmization of the celebrated Jam-
as Hilton novel. This film will
shown at the Gamla Bio this
week.
The story of “Mr. Chips" is the
Story of the education of yo'uth
the world over. Donat plays the
kindly schoolmaster who comes
to a large English school as a
young man and passes his entire
life there. He beoomes the ideal
uf the boys in his care, and when
these boys grow up they send
their sons back to “Mr. Chips".
He meets and falls in love with
a young and beautiful girl and
when she ultimately dies the
tragedy leaves “Chips" vith a
great human understanding and
compassion.
To the difficult role of “Chips"
Robert Donat brings a forthright
and sincere acting talent which
marks him as one of outstanding
actors on the screen to-day. Play-
tag four different stages in the
life of the genial schoolmaster,
from youth to old age, Donat
tuakes him at once a human,
breathing man, eccentric at tim-
es> but always understandable
and lovable, and a. symbol of
the great profession of teaching.
R is a performance which will
live in the memory of screengo-
ers for some time to come.
Although „Goodbye, Mr. Chips11
is dominated by Donat’s powerful
characterization, tremendous app-
eal is offered in the role of his
wife, played by Greer Garson,
who has never before been seen
on the screen but whose work
here insures her of stardom in the
hear future. Lo vely to; look ah Miss
Garson gives a warmth and inti-
macy to the role of the young
girl whose life is cut off all too
soon which make her scenes with
Donat among those which stand
out with clarity and power.
Among the thrilling moments
of the story are the rescue of the
heroine from a peak in the Tyr-
olean Alps, a spectacular air raid
during the World War and a
great ball in Vienna of the old
days. Cricket and football match-
es add interest and fast action.
Nfja Rid
My Lucky Star.
There you have Sonja Henie
again, but this time she is pre-
sented in an entirely new setting,
far removed from Switserland’s
Alpine peaks and Norway’s re-
mote villages.
A radiant modern girl, having
a good time at an American Uni-
versity, wearing swanky clothes,
having swell dates — That’s
Sonja as you’ll see her now.
The story opens with Sonja
enrolling as a student at Ply-
mouth College, where she is to
model the smart clothes of Ro-
mero’s (or rather, his father’s)
Fifth Avenue store. In the
school’s annual ice carnival Sonja
is so sensational that a picture
magazine publishes her photo-
graph on its cover. Romero’s ali-
mony-minded wife uses this to
create a newspaper scandal be-
tween her husband and Sonja,
forcing Sonja’s resignation from
school.
To clear her own name so that
she will be free to continue her
romance with Richard Greene
(handsome young British actor),
and to help Romero raise the
money to settle with his wife,
Sonja agrees to stage her ice
carnival in the Fifth Avenue
store. It is here that Sonja per-
forms her magnificent „Alice in
Wonderland11 ice ballet.
In this ballet all of Carroll’s
fantastic creatures have come to
life. Sonja skims across the ice
in the company of Tweeddledee
and Tweedledum and the Walrus
and the Carpenter. The philo-
sophic caterpillar descends from
his toadstool to join the dance
together with the King and
Queen and Knave of Hearts;
there are the Griffin and the
Dodo, the Mock Turtle and the
Dormouse, as well as the Ugly
Duchess, the Cheshire Cat, the
Mad Hatter, the White Rabbit,
the Red and Black court atten-
dants.
Gordon and Revel have written
several delightful new melodies
for the picture.
“Goodbye, Mr. Chips”
Was Written in Four Days.
James Hilton, the author of
„Goodbye, Mr. Chips, was born
in 1900 in Lancashire. He went
to Christ College, Cammbridge,
and left at the age of twenty
with B.A. Honours in History
and English. He has been writ-
ing since his boyhood. His first
article was accepted by the Man-
chester Guardian when he was
only seventeen. His first novel,
„Catherine Herself11, was written
also at seventeen and published
two years later 1920 while he
was still an undergraduate.
Through friendship with the editor
of the famous Irish Independent
of Dublin, he was then commis-
sioned to write a column for that
paper twice a week.
A novel, "And Now Goodbye"
1931 brought in his first good
returns but what he calls his
“real stroke of luck" came when
he was commissioned by the edi-
tor of the British Weekly to
Write a long short story for a
special Christmas supplement to
be completed in a fortnight. In-
spiration would not come. Then
while he was bicycle-riding one
foggy morning the idea came.
’’Goodbye Mr. Chips" was finish-
ed in four days, wa'lrn a yea
was a bestseller on two contin-
ents, and Hilton was established,
at the age of thirty-three a'
the top of his profession.
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