“Goodbye, Mr. Chips” (Movie review-5/16/39)

Microfiche-New York Times archives, McHenry Library, U.C. Santa Cruz | 5/16/39 | Frank S. Nugent

[MinuteGal]

Robert Donat won the Oscar for Best Actor in 1939 with his portrayal of Mr. Chips. This movie is never included on any of those "Best 100" lists.....and I've always felt it should be. It's refreshing to see a movie without a car chase once in a while.

The acting of today's thespians seems so shallow compared to the giants of the Golden Age of Movies. Oh, well......I must be getting more and more nostalgic as I get older.

Leni

[Homer_J_Simpson]

Note the interesting style choice in the C.A.A. story: they represented American Airlines with only the first word capitalized.

Could have been accidental. I come across a surprising number of typos in the copy.

Or maybe they used spell check and it didn't recognize the proper noun context.

[Steely Tom]

If it's a typo, it's a typo they made twice. I was thinking that it might have been in their style book. At the time, of course. Something like "if the word America or American appears as part of a commercial name, only the proper name shall be capitalized." Or something like that.

Of course, all that's changed.

Did you also notice this sentence in the Girl Scout Cookie Poster story:

The competition conducted by Mrs. Harold Hastings, vice chairman of the Girl Scout Fedration of Greater New York, was open to all girl and boy pupils from 7 to 16 years old attending New York City public schools.

Note that lack of the annoying, politically correct and stupid contemporary formulation, which would have been "Ms. (her own first name) Hastings, chair of the Girl Scout Federation of Greater New York