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	Goodbye, Mr. Chips - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Chips, Balgarnie died at the school, at the age of 82, having been linked with the school for 51 years and living his last years in modest lodgings opposite the school.
		At one point, Chips reads aloud a long roster of the school's fallen alumni, and, defying the modern world he sees as soulless and lacking transcendent values of honor and friendship, dares to include the name of a former German master who died fighting on the opposite side.
		When the war breaks out, Chips, who had retired the year before at age sixty-five, agrees to come out of retirement to fill in for the various masters who have entered military service.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips (778 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
		Chips" is a movie that deals surely and confidently with the most integral and basic, human-scale events: yearnings and disappointments, dreams, the play of randomness in life, the strength of memory, and the effect of time on the soul.
		Chips is the epitome of the socially awkward, introspective, backward individual.
		Chips was modeled on W.H. Balgarnie, James Hilton's old classics master who taught for over 50 years at The Leys public school in Cambridge.
	www.imdb.com /title/tt0031385 (1247 words)

	Goodbye Mr Chips
		Mr Chips has a rueful contempt for the boys' philistine values: 'They have mud in their brains,' he claims.
		Mr Chips has planned to spend the holidays in Harrogate, a very humdrum choice according to his friend Max Staefel, the German master at Brookfield.
		Katherine, meanwhile, has achieved her wish to tell Mr Chips that she loves him.
	www.nodanw.com /shows_g/goodbyemrchips.htm (679 words)

	Goodbye Mr. Chips
		While it may not be possible to film a version of Goodbye Mr.
		Chips is about a modest man's uphill struggle to educate his students, not just in the basics of Latin, but in the basics of human decency, and Clunes achieves this without making his character either self righteous or saccharine.
		Chips that is utterly faithful to the letter of the original, this one comes as close as it can to capturing the book's unromantic and genuinely touching spirit.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies7/GoodbyMrChips.htm (554 words)

	The Jujube Spotlight - Goodbye, Mr. Chips
		Chips," a classic of the genre, is that the hero is not this sort of person at all.
		Chips stands out not by speaking to kids in their own vernacular or softening tough hearts with tougher love.
		Chips" makes a connection with the people at his school as they flock to the side of his lovely wife.
	archive.thejujube.com /G/mrchips.html (516 words)

	Goodbye Mr. Chips
		Chips, at the Palace, has been produced in England in surroundings of inevitable authenticity and taste, with performers of extraordinary talent and range, and the results are here for all of us to share the sentimental warmth.
		Chips is, I'm afraid, very square indeed, but thanks to an idyllic ast and a magnificent director, there is so much love and beauty in it that it made my heart stop with joy.
		Peter O'Toole is a prim and angular Chips who wears a look of permanent insecurity; Miss Clark is a soft, sweet-smelling, dimpled doughnut with powdery cheeks and witty anxiety, like a new Jean Arthur.
	www.petulaclark.net /films/chips.html (688 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre Goodbye, Mr. Chips
		Chips was dashed off in four days by the 33-year-old Hilton, who had just scored a fabulous success with his novel Lost Horizon, a tale of immortality set in the fictional Tibetan utopia of "Shangri-La." Mr.
		Chipping; Conleth Hill as fellow teacher and friend Max Staefel; John Wood as headmaster Wetherby and Patrick Malahide as Ralston, the reforming headmaster who is determined to put the vintage Chips out to pasture.
		Chips is a perfect little masterpiece, which evoked this praise from the famously irascible critic Alexander Woollcott: "A tender and gentle story as warming to the heart and as nourishing to the spirit as any I can remember...
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mrchips (280 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Goodbye Mr Chips [1939]: DVD
		Chips arrives late for the event and is locked out with a young pupil with whom he shares his knowledge of the stone tablets that serve as memorials to past students and staff.
		Chips is a heartwarming film that unfolds the story of a man who is transformed by love, and goes on to influence the lives of his pupils and colleagues.
		Chipping's feelings are reciprocated in a charming courtship that changes his view of himself, and alerts him to the possibilities of living his life in a different way.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/B00012SZ4A (2118 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 b 114')
		In church Chips announces the heroic death of Peter Colley and that former German teacher Staefel was killed fighting with the Saxons.
		Chips tells her that he is made a house master.
		He says goodbye to her; as the train pulls out, they agree to marry.
	www.san.beck.org /MM/1939/GoodbyMrChips.html (443 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre Goodbye, Mr. Chips Story Synopsis
		Chips is the much-loved schoolmaster who devotes his life to Brookfield school and its generations of schoolboys in this poignant, classic story of a man who becomes a truly inspirational teacher.
		War continues its blight on the school; Chips has to break the news to his pupils of the deaths of their fathers, family members and former pupils.
		At the event packed with pupils past and present, Chips remembers years gone by and when he is introduced to a former student's daughter Kathie, he hears his own Kathie whispering in his ear.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mrchips/synopsis.html (538 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
		Chips' entire life from when he joined the school in 1870 until his death, thus covering a fair slice of British history, a slice that was at the beginning of the period in which things began to move at an ever-quickening pace.
		Chips is not a very popular teacher and is a very shy chap with little life outside of the school grounds.
		Chips discovers the joy of teaching and the love of his students.
	www.michaeldvd.com.au /Reviews/Reviews.asp?ID=4411 (772 words)

	The John Williams Web Pages: Goodbye, Mr. Chips
		Chips is devastated by the loss, but finds comfort in the genuine fondness that he has for the boys he has taught, and they for him.
		Chips soon softens as he recalls the trip to Pompeii in a flashback playing to a short reprise of "And the Sky Smiled." This leads into a short bit of underscore for Chips' revelation that he has the inside track for the position of Headmaster.
		Chips stands as the longest-running project of Williams' career up to that time (64 minutes of music in the film, plus additional album arrangements), and it is also noteworthy for being Williams' first score recorded in London.
	www.johnwilliams.org /compositions/goodbyemrchips.html (4427 words)

	Synthesis in Hilton's Goodbye Mr. Chips
		During an interview, Chips, a schoolteacher in his early twenties, admits to Wetherby, the head of Brookfield, that disciplining young boys was not one of his strong points at Melbury, his previous school.
		Prior to their marriage, Katherine tells Chips that she believes that schoolmastering is an important calling and that she sees Chips as influential on "those who are going to grow up and matter to the world" (26).
		In his attempt to rescue her, Chips finds himself "rescued instead of the rescuer," and "neither role is one for which he had much relish" (20).
	soucc.southern.cc.oh.us /home/bedwards/synthesis.html (637 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre Goodbye, Mr. Chips Teacher's Guide Time and Place: English Public Schools Before and After World War I
		Chips began his tenure at Brookfield, English class structure was still rigidly defined -- everyone had a place in society, and everyone knew his or her place.
		By 1880, the year Chips comes to Brookfield, public schools were firmly established as the main system for educating upper-class boys.
		But the story also shows Chips upholding the idea of a hierarchy of authority.
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/mrchips/tg_setting.html (1341 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939 film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was up against Gone with the Wind in all seven categories; Robert Donat won for Best Actor, beating out Clark Gable, but Goodbye, Mr.
		Chips (1939) is a British film based on the novel of the same name by James Hilton.
		Chips lost to Gone With the Wind in five of the six remaining categories (in the sixth, Best Sound, both lost to the otherwise undistinguished When Tomorrow Comes).
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Goodbye,_Mr._Chips_(1939_film) (161 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939) - Movie Tome
		As a junior Master Mr Chipping, known as Chips by the boys whom he taught- - came to Brookfield, an English Public School, in 1870 and there he remained for sixty three years, growing less shy and more mellow; growing more tolerant, more humorous and more beloved by the boys whom he taught.
		Chipping (Chips)- he was required to "age" from a young man in his twenties to an old man of about eighty.
		Chipping was based on James Hilton's father who was also a schoolmaster
	www.movietome.com /movietome/servlet/MovieMain/movieid-98654/Goodbye_Mr_Chips_1939 (143 words)

	DVD.net : Goodbye Mr Chips (1939) - DVD Review
		Chips (as he is affectionately known) is left to steer the school with courage and bravery in his older years.
		Chips’ unique and humble perspective on life as he discovers as much about being human as he teaches the boys themselves.
		What follows are the remaining years of Mr.
	www.dvd.net.au /review.cgi?review_id=3827 (910 words)

	Goodbye Mr. Chips
		Chips" notables in attendance were Miss Clark, producer Arthur P. Jacobs, composer Leslie Bricusse, screenwriter Terence Rattigan, music conductor-supervisior John Williams, Oscar-winning costume designer Julie Harris and headmaster Robert Powell from Sherborne School, England where much of the film was photographed under the direction of Herbert Ross.
		Yet somehow Kathryn and Chips survived the difficult early years and as the years went by, their love grew and deepened.
		Only when war broke out was Chips made headmaster at last, but he couldn't share the news of his triumph with Katherine.
	www.petulaclark.net /films/chips2.html (364 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
		Goodbye, Mr Chips is a marvellous portrayal of author James Hilton's retired English schoolmaster Charles ‘Chips’ Chipping (Donat), ageing throughout the film he recalls his days at Brookfield, a boy’s public school, from 1870 to 1928.
		With Katherine’s encouragement, Chips, as she fondly nicknamed him, begins to wins the students trust and admiration by relaxing his authoritarian manner.
		The film continues by charting Chips many friendships with pupils, his retirement, and temporary headship during the First World War.
	www.britmovie.co.uk /genres/drama/filmography01/011.html (320 words)

	Amazon.com: Goodbye, Mr. Chips: Books: James Hilton
		Chipping came to teach at Brookfield in 1870. It was a time when dignity and a generosity of spirit still existed, and the dedicated new schoolmaster expressed these beliefs to his rowdy students. Nicknamed Mr.
		Chips as an extended metaphor, or merely as a crackling good read, we are drawn again and again to its quiet, direct story and simple message.
		Chips' schoolbound world is not a "real world" in many ways, and yet the novel retains a sense of warmth and reality that many schoolboy days books cannot sustain.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0553273213?v=glance (2061 words)

	DVD Bits - Region 4 and Region 1 DVD news, reviews, resources, PC-DVD, hardware
		Goodbye, Mr Chips is presented in aspect ratio of 1.85:1 widescreen and it is 16:9 enhanced.
		Goodbye, Mr Chips is a recent adaptation of a classic novel written by James Hilton.
		Goodbye, Mr Chips is based on the novel by James Hilton.
	www.dvdbits.com /reviews.asp?id=1544 (969 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
		Chips does right by a lesser-known actor, Martin Clunes ("Shakespeare in Love"), who remakes the character and crafts him to be all his own.
		Chips has done marvelous things for the actors who have portrayed him through the ages.
		Chips charms a new generation of viewers in this well-mounted production of James Hilton's classic tale of 19th century English school life.
	www.thehollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=2005415 (462 words)

	ABC Shop - Goodbye Mr Chips
		ABC Video is pleased to announce the release of a new adaptation of Goodbye, Mr Chips, which is based on the much-loved classic by James Hilton.
		Chips slowly change through the love and influence of his unconventional wife, from an idealistic teacher in his 20s to a wiser, gentler headmaster in his 80s and an icon for the schoolboys of Brookfield school.
		Chipping's life being transformed by the meeting and courtship of his loving wife, Kathie, who gives him the nickname of Mr.
	shop.abc.net.au /browse/product.asp?productid=722244 (188 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Goodbye Mr Chips: Books
		Buy Goodbye Mr Chips with Lost Horizon today!
		This is James Hilton's classic tale of a gentle English schoolmaster, known familiarly to three generations of schoolboys as Mr Chips.
		Chipping eventually earns and the overriding theme of the constancy of the institution shaping the lives of its students into proper English gentlemen can be easily seen and appreciated.
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0340043598 (755 words)

	Robert Donat @ Classic Movie Favorites - Goodbye Mr. Chips
		Robert Donat @ Classic Movie Favorites - Goodbye Mr.
		Chips is a celebration of a man's life as a teacher and it required Donat to age from 25 to 80.
		The film begins with Chips taking a position as a teacher in an English Public School.
	classicmoviefavorites.com /donat/chips.html (217 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips Movie: Goodbye, Mr. Chips DVD is available from Bestprices.com
		Directed by Sam Wood, highly regarded for his handling of collegiate subjects and tearjerking themes, GOODBYE, MR.
		CHIPS is the story of a shy English schoolmaster who dedicates his life to his boys.
		CHIPS was one of the most critically acclaimed films of 1939.
	www.bestprices.com /cgi-bin/vlink/012569583726IE (296 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips
		Chips, her constant companion for all of his 15 years.
		Chips was sitting behind the steering wheel -- with one paw on it.
		Chips resembled the Chihuahua in the Taco Bell commercials.
	www.oregonlive.com /special/series/dropouts.ssf?/news/oregonian/00/06/nw_41taco07.frame (272 words)

	Goodbye Mr Chips
		When 28-year-old Latin teacher, MR CHIPPING, arrives at Brookfield School he is on a month’s probation and doesn’t get off to a good start with the pupils who are rowdy and ill-disciplined in his lesson.
		War continues its blight on the school and CHIPS has to break the news to his pupils of the deaths of their fathers, family and former pupils.
		But CHIPS’ happiness is short-lived when, during labour, KATHIE and their son both die.
	www.smgproductions.tv /content?page=s2_2_8 (448 words)

	Home Theater Forum - HTF REVIEW: Goodbye Mr. Chips.
		Chips is a beautiful account of a dedicated man, who, for sixty-three years, devoted his life to the school and the students he taught.
		Chips (as he would become affectionately referred to by Katherine) returned to his classroom and his students.
		Chips relies solely on great acting and lacks the sentimentality and melodramatics of its contemporary copies.
	www.hometheaterforum.com /htforum/showthread.php?s=&postid=1991988&t=1590 (2192 words)

	Goodbye, Mr. Chips Standard Release DVD - MovieWeb
		A presentation of ExxonMobil Masterpiece Theatre, Goodbye, Mr.
		Chips reflects on his career at a retirement party.
		The story follows the life of beloved Latin schoolteacher Mr.
	www.movieweb.com /dvd/release/68/39768/features.php (182 words)

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