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...James B. Conant, Mrs. Leslie B. Cutler, Mrs. Robert H. Fernald, Mrs. Edward W. Forbes, Mrs. Vinton Freedley, Mrs. Theodore Frothingham, Jr., Mrs. W. Perrin Fuller, Mrs. David H. Fulton, Mrs. William T. Gardiner, Mrs. John W. Hallowell, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. Thomas J. Healey, Mrs. F. Harvey Hilton, Mrs. Amor Hollingsworth, Mrs. James M. Hunnewell, Mrs. James L. Huntington, Mrs. Shaun Kelly, Mrs. Delmar Leighton...
Call It a Day (Warner) is an amiable adaptation of Dodie Smith's gentle little comedy about one spring day in the life of the Hilton family. In the class of dramaturgy which depends upon making much of trifles, Call It a Day is about the last possible refinement. Not only does nothing actually happen in the story but the fact that at its end the Hiltons are exactly where they were at its beginning constitutes its denouement. This is because, in the interim, each has been touched, lightly as by the warm March wind, by currents in life...
Divorced. James Hilton, 36, sentimental British novelist (Lost Horizon, Goodbye, Mr. Chips), now a Hollywood scenarist; from Alice Helen Brown Hilton, in Juarez...
...long as the world has been turning, dissatisfied thinkers--philosophers we term them--have envisioned Utopias, Paradise, Fountains of Youth like Hilton's "Shangri-la". The Utopia of the young Englishman is situated obscurely beyond the last bit of civilization amid the white mountains of Tibet. To this impossible place is brought kidnapped Robert Conway, England's Eden-to-be. The High Llama, a French priest who stumbled upon Shangri-la in 1713 and claims to be over 200 years, old, informs Conway that he is to guard like a monk of the Middle Ages the treasures of the world...
...this suggests that Hilton's characters are symbols, that the whole idea is an allegory. Conway may be the intelligent person who arrives through a philosophy of moderation and kindness at carthly happiness. His brother may represent the many who balk at progress, who disbelieve all doctrines that are new or that they cannot understand. The men who drink the toast in the end may be the majority who all have faith in some Utopia but have not yet seen...