Them now I realize how similar they actually are. On the surface, these two stories couldn't be more different, but reading He reretires, after 42 years teaching Roman History and Latin at Brookfield. Names, but for Chips, each name has a face attached. To read the list of the school's war dead for everyone else they are just In my mind you never grow old at all', only to be called back during WWI,Īt which point he becomes acting headmaster. School, he retires, telling the assembled alumni, 'I have thousands ofįaces in my mind. Is left alone, except that is for the succeeding generations of boys who Who loosens him up quite a bit, before dying in childbirth. Seeminglyĭestined to be a bachelor for life, he meets and marries a young woman Chips, on the other hand, is about an eccentricīut lovable British schoolmaster, Arthur Chipping (Mr. Insistence of one of his fellow travelers), Conway returns to assume his Leadership of Shangri-La and after an abortive attempt to leave (at the High lama reveals to the diplomat that he has been chosen to take over Turbulent political storms of the outside world. World's knowledge and greatest artworks, so that it will be safe from the Where folks do not age and the powers that be are collecting all of the They are lead to the hidden Valley of the Blue Moon and the city of Shangri-La, He & his traveling companions end up in the Himalayas. In Lost Horizon, Hugh Conway, a British diplomat, is skyjacked and I assume most folks know at least the rough outlines of the stories. Recently, our library got a restored edition of the Capraįilm and we enjoyed it thoroughly. At any rate, I liked the film enough to read the bookĪnd also Hilton's other classic, Goodbye, Mr. As it turns out, that version of the movie is prettyĭreadful, while Frank Capra's 1937 original is widely considered to beĪ classic. The year I wasġ2, the movie was a remake of Lost Horizon-my most graphic memoryįrom that night is my horror when the woman suddenly aged after leaving Hall for the movie and Christmas Pageant every year. When we were kids, our grandparents used to take us to Radio City Music

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