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OH, CHILDREN I'M GOING TO REARRANGE
THE CLASS --- THE BRIGHT PUPILS WILL' SIT IN THE REAR SEATS AND
THE DULL ONES UP FRONT SO
I CAN GIVE THEM MORE
ATTENTION!
By Ernie
January 16, 1940.
Bushmiller
Goodbye. Mr Chips
From the Novel by
JAMES HILTON
Adapted from the M.-G.-M. Picture by LEBBEUS MITCHELL,
ROBERT DONAT, male fead in M-G-M's greatest British Production entitled "GOODBYE MR, CHIPS” enjoys bis leisure hours with a good pipe
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"OH, hello, Chipping,' greeted Masters. "How are you? Congratulations Yes."
mur-
"Er-thank you," mured Chips. "My wife
would so like to meet you. May I bring her in? We'll He only stay a moment."
turned in the doorway to call: "Come in, Kathie."
She entered, looking most She radiant and beautiful.
was a vision as she stood
SYNOPSIS
Chipping, the shy master at Brookfield School is bachelor for 20 years and one uf the masters most disliked by the hors of the school, Returning from the summer vacation which he spent on a walking tour in the Tyrol with a fellow instructer, Max Staefel, Chips is bringing back a bride. The masters are in dismay, for Max has told them Chipping is bringing his wife to the cammon room Introduce
her to them, Slaefel slyly hints that Mrs. Chipping is elderly and red-nosed, but asks them to be kind to, her for Chipping's sake.
"Well, then, I'd better pour it.;
CHIPS!
"Really?" asked Kathie. "Do: you think we'll beat Sedbury, Martin ?"
"We ought to-" *The Sedbugs are funks ang- way," cut in another boy.
The what?" asked Kathic į puzzled.
"Sedbugs-that's our name for them."
"Can anybody tell me what is the Lex Canuleia ?"
Not a hand was raised. He called on Mason, Masou didn't know,
"It was the law that allowa patricians to marry plehcians." Chips explained, and over his face passed an expression of one "I see. And what do they call about to take a plunge into you? The Brookfleas?" after the strange waters which he fears her are very cold. He took a deep The boys straightened up and roar of laughter that met
con-breath and went on: "It was i "Croze" their faces into expres-sally had died down, she
the very handy law. For if Mr. sions of painfully elaborate tinued: "Well, if you win casualness, as the door opened match, Mr. Chipping and I must Patrician told Miss Plebs that he couldn't and Chips ushered Kathic out, give you a feast of victory." The, he was sorry but
so marry her, after they mudo the while the masters inside called boys enjoyed themselves further goodbyes, and asked her much that they stayed until Lex Canulein she probably re- Chips had to send them away so plied, 'Oh. yes you can, you liar." please to come again.
they wouldn't be late for chupel, "What a nice lot they are," remarked Kathie, after the last boy had gone.
IT was quite evident to Chips what the boys in the corridor had been up to, and the look he gave them
was none too friendly.
One boy raised his hat, with an
doffed their caps.
Chips, with a small, sheepish stnile, grasped Kalbie's arm to
there, at Chip's side, smiling ******.................................÷8$46.00"-hello, sir." The other boys at the masters who stiffened as though to "Attention!" hadn't I?" -at-drill,-and-stared.-
"Er-these are my leagues,
Raven."
my.
dear.
Mr.i
#
fixed,
Porter-
They certainly are when you them like this, get to know though what authority I shall have in class after these orgies
"Ten times more,” said Kathie,
"because they'll look upon you
as a friend."*
"What a revolutionary you
tre.
#
She brushed the tobacco from
For a moment there was no response to his experimental joke.
An expression of alarm' was forming on his face and he was turning back to the blackboard when a sudden storm of laughter hit him like a wave. The boys lughed so long that he had to tell them: "That will be enough,
thanks." Martin, however, could not stop.
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"It's very kind of you, Martin. to-express- such-violent-appreclamen non Chinese and Sunglasses why we mustn't return you to your tion of my-er-little joke, but parents with a broken blood ves. sul."
-They gathered-about-her-Re-lead-her-away-but-she-stopped his coat. Try one
one of these collieving her of her handbag, an- and smiled at the boys.
jokes you've always kept hidden other of her cape, a third of her
"Good evening! Are these away-and see what happens.” gloves, and then they drew up some of your boys, dear ?**
"No, Kathie" he cried in their chair about the table.
"Er-yes.
Martin, Winthrop, mock, alarm. There's a limit Raven bowed,
"We'll want some more clips."Brown ander-the rest of you even to revolutions!**
Laughter broke out again, and blank smile on his face.
said Hildersley.
BUT in the Latin | Chips" felt a little surge of -this is Mrs. Chipping." "McCulloch doesn't drink tea, i "I hope we are going to meet
class next day, as triumph sweep over him. "Mr. Murdock, Mr. Watson--" There was an in-re, Chipping," said Raven, try again," Kathic smiled at them, Mr. credulous, baffled expression ining, to edge his chair closer by "Indeed I know we are.
pushing McCulloch's away. | Chipping wants to have a teu Porter-Watson's eyes.
"Don't talk nonsense!" cried for his boys every Sunday letters, LEX CANULEIA, some- "Mr. Hildersley, Mr. McCul- McCulloch indignantly. "or
"Er-what's that " asked thing strange and new came over course I do--very frequently Chips, hearing of his desire for him. KATHIE made a He got the first cup, and took it the first time, but Kathie spoke bow in defiantly. The others offered quickly through his undertone: general smiling acknowledg plates of tea biscuits and little ment of the intro cakes to Kathie. ductions. "It's so
loch," continued Chips's voice.
nice to meet you-
J
just a little terrifying."
"Won't...won't you
sil
down?" gulped Porter-Watson. And at this invitation the spell that had held them silent and
"I think it would be nice if you boys started the ball rolling i THE news of by coming next Sunday." Ohipping's wedding; "Oh thank you! We'll be glad had spread some-to!" cried the boys delightedly.
"You said four o'clock, didn't thing of wonder and consternationYou?" Kathie asked Chips. among the pupils.
he stood before the blackboard upon which he had printed in large
THE EX-KAISER MAY HAVE TO MOVE
amazed was broken; they all having tea with the master, a radiant smile, "We shall lopte Rotterdamented by a vast ex-
rushed to fetch a chair for her.
"I'm afraid I oughtn't to break into a private room," said Kathic. "Not at all." "It isn't at alı
private certainly not!" chorus-
ed a number of voices.
"Why, Chips told me it was terribly private!"
"Chips 7" muttered Hildersley vaguely.
TO-MORROW
APRIL FOOL
Chamberlain To Tell Commons
15
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SPECIAL TO THE "TELEGRAPH” would be given. Further flood-gates
LONDON, Jan. 15 (UP),—R and Mulces would be opened, others understood that Mr. Nevile Cham- closed, and the waves would then berlain will announce in the Huuse be diverted eastward to flow
re-of Commons on Tuerday further de Horsele-sly towards Germany. "I-er-yes, four o'clock."
Eastern Holland would be separat-tails of the Anglo-French Anancial and economic agreement with Tur- While Chips and Kathie were Kathie; giving the boys her most towns of
"Four o'clock then," saided from the west, where lie the key
key. the Hague, and
The Premier will emphasize that, In accordance with the Lengue re- dozen or more boys had gathered
solution, Britain is substantially in the corridor just outside the tucked her arm into Chips' and
Good night." She panse of water, cncompassing nearly
one-third of the whole country. helping Finland, although it cx- instructors' common room.
This in the Dutch plan, to resist pected that he will refrain from they walked away amid the invasion, by Germany, and it would | divulging the character of such aid, astonished and delighted good take only six hours, to carry out. or the routes by which it is reaching
The Dutch Government has pass | Finland. nights of the boys.
ed the Emergency Beerce proclaim- ing large sections of the country as areas for flooding, but because of the heavy sacrifice entailed and the
One of them was peeking through the keyhole, with half a dozen grouped back of him.
"Can you see her ?" asked one! boy. "Is she old?"
"Shut up you fools! They'll hear us!"*
"I can't see a thing if you keep shoving me!" complained the peeper,
"Who's shoving? What's she like?"
"My dear, I told you not to," Bald Chipa, very much embar- rassed.
He explained: "It's Juster a sort of nickname she's given ma."
Murdock aprang to his feet "She doesn't look much older and slapped Chips heartily on the than some of us," said the boy back. "Chips! Why didn't we at the keyhole. "My eye! She think of that? You must stay calls him "Chips!" and have tea with us, Mrs. "Chips! What a rum name Chips."
What are they doing?" "Oh, I don't think we-"
The peeper continued. "She's “Oh, you must.” "Of course."mado him buy a new hat and "Couldn't think of your leaving have his hair cut!"
forward to it.
"Not bad, eh?" remarked one of the taller boys.
"She's pretty," said another. derful!"
"Pretty, you ass! She's won-fact that there appears at present
to be no direct threat of invasion, the vital word of command is with-
THAT first Sun- held. day tea party for to warn
Tols decree was primarily intended
the
the inhabitants of Chips' pupils was a districts concerned that they must great success.
expect to be compulsorily, evacuated Chins sat in his at a moment's noti chair by the fire Natural Floods
side, smoking a pipe, and
BLACK-OUTS IN VIENNA
ZURICHI, Jun. 15 (Reuter).— Vienna now will be blacked out at night, according to the correspondent of a Swiss paper.
It is officially stated that the mea- sure is intended to economise in cool.
watching with amused pride I me is quite normal, to the Ger- This will be quite sumcicnt to make my four from Utrecht, where covered to a maximum depth of 2ft. Kathie's way with the Poye.
man frontler, just bryand Nijmegen, Impossible to distinguish between "Have another crumpet, Mar- saw no signs of unusual activity the fields and the myriads of 12ft. tin," she said to a tall, healthy Many felds were flooded, but it was canals and ditches, looking Ind. "You've hardly pointed out to me that this was due If any tank tri:s tó cross that trop to the unnally high water level of | It will be just too bad for the tank, eaten anything."
the River Waal.
say the Dutch. So poor are the "I'm in training, Mrs. Chip-
A certain amount of deliberate prospects, indeed, that the Dutch ping.'
flooding has been undertaken but Army Itrell has only one tank. "It without tea." "Here comes "Pour old Chipping! I will "Martin is one of our boat this was also the case in 1914. The was bought at the end of the last Jenks with it now." The various kill him!"
footballera," -explained Chips,arens are those which cannot be war, and after becoming bogged six mastera all spoke at the same "Quiet! Get back! They come ought to get his colours this included in the six hours' scheme. times in a mile during its trial rua
ing out!"
If and when the "big food. is it was transferred to the Dutch war Itorm."
ordered the ferille meadows will be museum, where it still remalna.
time.
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