In his eighty-third year, Charles Edward Chipping, fondly referred to as "Mr. Chips", recalls the fifty-eight years he has been at Brookfield, one of the oldest and most respected boys schools in England. Although revered by his charges and his colleagues alike, his years at Brookfield were not always so harmonious. As this was his first teaching job, his first students exploited his inexperience, which in turn led him to being a strict disciplinarian. Although he got out of his students what was required academically, they and his colleagues felt him to be stuffy, overly regimented, and not a naturally good teacher. The latter was evidenced when he was passed over for a seniority based position. It wasn't until about twenty years after his teaching started that that failure to be promoted, plus meeting the beautiful and gregarious Katherine Ellis while on an international vacation, his first, changed his life. Kathy, who was much younger than him, and who would eventually become "Mrs. Chips", opened his eyes to the fun in life, and saw his potential that couldn't see. She also provided his students and colleagues a different perspective on him. Over the next forty years, as he and the school saw the passing of many monumental world events, Mr. Chips experienced many personal triumphs, plus a few personal tragedies. But the one constant was the admiration and love from those around him. — Huggo In 2004, the same society decided to create a marker for Mrs. Chippy. The public donated funds to create a life-size bronze statue of Mrs. Chippy, and later the same year, around 100 people gathered round McNish’s grave and read words of tribute for both the carpenter and his cat. The crew having their hair cut onboard Endurance in 1914. Mrs. Chippy would have been present at many of these events. A year of tragedy and war worries". youandyesterday.com. Archived from the original on 21 March 2011 . Retrieved 14 March 2011.

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South Georgia Newsletter, February 2011". South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands. GSGSSI. February 2011. Archived from the original on 15 December 2014 . Retrieved 15 February 2018.Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan: The man who turned Walter White from Mr Chips into Scarface". TheGuardian.com. 18 May 2012. Among The Fiction – Outstanding Sales". The Times. No.46928. London. 4 December 1934. col c, p.20. Gale CS335883140. Art Exhibitions". Classified Advertising. The Times. No.48203. London. 14 January 1939. col D, p.10. Gale CS169423918. A radio adaptation by the Lux Radio Theatre starring Laurence Olivier and Edna Best and presented by Cecil B. DeMille was first broadcast on 20 November 1939. [8] [9] A limited-edition 3-CD set of the complete score, including alternative versions of songs and discarded numbers, was released by the Film Score Monthly Silver Age Classics label in 2006.

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The expedition photographer Frank Hurley captured the only known picture of Mrs. Chippy. However, many of the crew wrote about him being ‘full of character’ in their diaries and logs and attested to his confidence and ease at sea.A 50-minute adaptation by James Hilton and Barbara Burnham was broadcast on the BBC National Programme at 20:00 on 23 July 1936, with Richard Goolden in the title part and a cast that included Norman Shelley, Ronald Simpson, Lewis Shaw and Hermione Hannen. [6] There was a repeat broadcast the following evening. [7] Goldin, David. "Hallmark Playhouse: Goodbye Mr. Chips". Radio GOLDINdex. UMKC Miller Nichols Library . Retrieved 5 April 2023. Captain Frank Worsley detailed Mrs. Chippy’s habit of climbing the rigging “exactly after the manner of a seaman going aloft”, while meteorologist Leonard Hussey noted that he used to take a provocative stroll across the roofs of the dogs’ kennels. He also impressed the crew with his ability to walk along inch-wide rails in the roughest of seas.

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Other scenes were filmed at Christ College, Brecon; with many of the school's pupils taking roles in the production. BBC Derby In the Marx Brothers film At the Circus, as Groucho Marx is about to walk out of a scene, he shakes hands with a nearby caged monkey and says, "Goodbye, Mister Chimps." In 2009, the short-running ABC sitcom Better Off Ted titles its 6th episode "Goodbye, Mr. Chips" wherein the computer system misidentifies then completely deletes the account of Ted Crisp, the main character. Mrs. Chippy’s statue by Chris Elliot. On Harry McNeish’s grave in Karori cemetery, Wellington, New Zealand.Plays and Music". Arts and Entertainment. The Times. No.47435. London. 24 July 1936. col d, p.12. Gale CS202977016. Goodbye, Mr. Chips was parodied in the British sketch comedy programmes Hale and Pace (as Piss Off, Mr. Chips) and Big Train. One of the themes of the book is that Chipping so outlasts all of his peers that his brief marriage fades into myth and few people know him as anything other than a confirmed and lonely bachelor. Despite Chipping's mediocre credentials and his view that classic Greek and Latin (his academic subjects) are dead languages, he is an effective teacher who becomes highly regarded by pupils and the school's governors—he has become a well-worn institution. In his later years, he develops an arch sense of humour that pleases everyone. However, he also becomes somewhat of an anachronism, with an antiquated pronunciation, and is pitied for his isolation. On his deathbed, he talks of the fulfilment he felt as a teacher of boys. McNish died in destitution in Wellington, New Zealand, in 1930. Though he was buried with full military honours in a Karori cemetery, he was buried in an unmarked pauper’s grave. Kennedy, Matthew (2014). Roadshow! The Fall of Film Musicals in the 1960s. Oxford University Press. p.105. ISBN 978-0-19-992567-4.