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Paul Muni and James Hilton are combined in "We Are Not Alone" to produce what might easily prove the best picture of the year. A man who is one of the best actors alive has portrayed in the story adapted from Hilton's vivid novel perhaps his most thoroughly human movie role...
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer) is a lovingly faithful picturization of the novelette by James Hilton that gave Alexander Woollcott such a good cry five years ago. Like the book, it is sentimental in the precise sense: it exploits emotions which, reduced to propositions, most people would reject as false-e.g., that failure is somehow preferable to success. Shrewdly directed by Sam Wood, the cinementor of the Marx Brothers, Goodbye, Mr. Chips goes out for tears as unscrupulously and efficiently as those merry-andrews go out for laughs...
...Canby stepped down as editor in 1936, irascible Bernard De Voto stepped up. Two years later De Voto turned over direction to young, good-natured George Stevens. Last week another shake-up left The Saturday Review with the same editors but new owners. Purchaser was tall, hard-working Joseph Hilton Smyth, onetime pulp editor, conductor of a mimeographed sheet analyzing foreign affairs, who in the last year has taken over Current History and two venerable, distinguished magazines: Living Age (founded in 1844), North American Review (1815). Associated with him is Publisher Harrison Smith. Owners Smyth & Smith announced there would...
...monasteries of Drepung, Sera and Ganden, with monk populations from 5,000 to 10,000. The climax is, of course, the fussy, interminable ceremony at which he became a full-fledged Lama, a Western reincarnation of a long-dead Tibetan saint. For readers who picture Tibet from James Hilton's Lost Horizon, Lama Bernard's account should be an eye-opener...
...Outing Club, however, transferred its activities to an "outdoor evening" on Hilton Field which was attended by more than a thousand people, with skating and skiing on the program...