SHAFTE SBURY

THEATRE

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" GOOD-BYE, MR. CHIPS "

By JAMES HILTON and BARBARA BURNHAM,

from JAMES HILTON'S novel

Ainswonh (Head Boy) .......... PETER COPLEY Collcy ...................... HENRY HEPWORTH Linford ...................... ROBIN MAULE

Mr. Stickleback .............. HUBERtr HAREEN Mr. Chips ...................... LESLIE BANKS Mlr. Blake .................. MICHAEL SHEPLEY Mr. Wetherby .......... CHARLES QUARTEX,MAINE Mtr. Upton .................. GODFREY KENTON Mr. Temple .................. RONALD SIMPSON Elainc ...................... GILLIAN LLuD Annie .......... : ANN WILTON

Kathcrinc ............ CONSTANCE CUMMINGS RoberLs ..... ....... TONY HALFPENNY Saunders .........M..H.... HAEL MCNEI.E Mr. Chatleris ............ LAWRENCE HARDMAN

It needed an honest and quiet play to hold an audience last night and the audience was continuously held from the day on which Mr. Chips, a young man of 22, took preparation for the first time in the Big Hall at Brookfield until, as an old man, he retired and, as an older, returned to service of the school during the War, and, in extreme age, went to sleep in his chair. His adventures by the way are exceptional only in the quality given them by his

The presentation in the Big Hall in 1913 to Mr. Chips (Mr. Leslie

Banks) in Good-bye, Mr. Chips at the Shaftesbury Theatre.

character. He marries and deeply loves a young and beautiful wife; she dies in childbirth. He is accused of being oldfashioned by an innovating headmaster and invited to resign; he quietly survives his accuser.

He teaches Latin while the bombs drop, steadying the nerve of his class by directing them to appropriate passages in Caesar. Slowly he becomes at Brookfield-what ? The easy word is an " institution," but it is too pompous to serve Mr. Chips. He becomes that extremely rare being-an imaginative, an unspectacular, a great schoolmaster.

There is one...