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...years. Point of Goodbye, Mr. Chips, which begins at the end of Mr. Chips's life, is that, viewed in proper retrospect, his career is not the meaningless blank it appears to be. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips was young once, and so was Robert Donat, whose fishskin makeup in the first sequences is the most thorough- going physical transformation since the days of Lon Chancy. Believe it or not, Mr. Chips once courted a pretty girl in Vienna, and married her. And he was headmaster once, during the War, when all the able hands were...
...spent money as few princes ever dared to do. He ensconced himself in San Simeon with a zoo, bought St. Donat's castle in Wales, built an elaborate Hollywood publicity machine to glorify Marion Davies, indulged himself insatiably in the purchase of art treasures until he had spent $35,000,000 for what could have been bought for about $15,000,000. For money he used the income of his papers (of which he bought six more), the profits of the mines he had inherited from his prospector father, and a pocketful of promissory notes. Always a worry...
...effectiveness on the screen. For once Hollywood has cast aside its grandiose ideas of lavish staging effects and breath-taking landscape panoramas to present a simple and convincing portrait of medical life. Particularly effective are the scenes in the Welsh coal mines and rustic country clinics. Robert Donat and Rosalind Russell head a fine cast, among whom Ralph Richardson as the cynical, rum-consuming Denny is outstanding...
...Donat J. Levesque, Democratic mayor ot sedate Lewiston. Me., was indicted on a charge of accepting a $200 bribe in connection with the appointment of a city health officer...
...Citadel (Robert Donat, Rosalind Russell; TIME...