Word: repton
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...British cinemagoers are still being moved to smiles & tears by the smile-&-tear jerker, Goodbye, Mr. Chips. The school pictured in the film is Repton, a famed public school in Britain's Derbyshire. Repton's boys (200 of whom played in the film) are shown in their uniforms of black tailcoats or jackets, striped trousers, starched turnover collars and black ties. Last fortnight, having thus made his school's dress almost as familiar to the public as the Eton jacket, Repton's 40-year-old headmaster, Harold George Michael Clarke, made a surprise announcement...
Headmaster Clarke said he had made up his mind to this revolutionary step several years ago, when he learned that Repton boys, to escape townee snickers when they left the school grounds, enveloped themselves in mackintoshes even on the hottest days. Repton's new uniform, still to be designed, will be "made up so as to allow greater freedom and less to divide the Reptonian from his fellow countrymen...
Like MGM's previous productions in England, A Yank at Oxford and The Citadel, Goodbye, Mr. Chips makes economical use of local actors, notably 300 students of Repton School who acted as extras during their vacation. Besides Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr. Chips employs only two performers who are likely to mean much in Hollywood. One is Terry Kilburn, 12-year-old son of a London bus driver, who made a hit as Tiny Tim in last season's Christmas Carol, and who functions in quadruplicate as a four-generation student of Mr. Chips. He is under long-term...
...will be called on to sacrifice hundreds of thousands of lives.'' William Ebor,* as he signs his letters to the London Times, is an enlightened, erudite divine, son of a onetime headmaster to Oxford's Balliol, lectured in philosophy at Queen's, became headmaster of Repton before he ascended to the bishopric of Manchester. That northern see, with its industrial pinch, led Dr. Temple politically to the Left of his colleague of Canterbury, into the Labor Party and on to the presidency of its Workers Educational Association. With the enthusiasm of a practical social reformer...