"JOURNEY'S END."

Evening Post, Volume CVIII, Issue 117, 13 November 1929, Page 5

"JOURNEY'S END."

This evening at the Grand Opera House J C Williamson's new English company will stage for the first time here It. C. Sherriff's fine drama "Journey's End," which has won for itself world-wide reputation. The triumphs Journey's. End" has achieved in England America, France, Germany, and other countries are quite without a parallel in recent years, and it has just terminated a recordbreaking season in Melbourne. "Journey's :End" is almost without a plot, for slight indeed is the actual story told by tho author in a series of episodes. Yet from the first moment when the curtain rises on the ill-lit dug-out before St. Quentin, the attention is gripped. The characters are quickly and dramatically established. After a few sentences the audience knows the men for what they are. Five members of the comnanv all Englishmen, will make their first appearance here this evening. Reginald Tate, as Captain btanhope, achieved an outstanding triumph In Melbourne. "Towering above tho others" wrote a critic, "purposeful, passionate, is the company commander. He is in a state of nervous irritability and needs a rest. He dopes himself with whisky, and at times he:is wildly ashamed. But he is still master of himself, takes charge firmly at every crisis and dominates his officers and men by sheer moral courage." "Harvey Adams," wrote tho samo critic, "made his schoolmaster-turned soldier, friend, and comforter of his captain a living and loveable character, and Lewis bhaw, who was here recently In "Young Woodlcy,' as the newly-joined subaltern, has a. part that might have been written for this talented- young artist." The comedy characters are admirably portrayed by Mr. John Fernsida and Mr. Vincent Laivson while others who have assisted to make "Journey's End an outstanding success in Australia are Alan Lawrence, Ambrose Flower, Reginald c'S a? c' /? ce Blnald Wykeman, George Jennings Hedgo Carey, and Arthur Stigant, junr. The play was produced by George D. Parker. Box plans now open at the Bristol.