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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18992, 11 February 1930, Page 1

“Christchurch Star" & JOURNEY’S END Famous War Play as a “Serial Greatest Stage Triumph of Modern Times Beginning on SATURDAY WEEK The “Christchurch Star” is to-day able to make an announcement which will cause widespread interest and discussion. It has arranged for the serial publication in its columns of “Journey’s End,” Mr. R. C. Sherriff’s remarkable war play, which has achieved the greatest stage triumph of modern times.

No more grimly realistic picture of warfare than this has been seen. It mingles a wonderfully dramatic effect with vivid human qualities. The characters the company officer, his lieutenants, the sergeant-major and the cook have been drawn wivh a masterly hand. They talk in their dug-out as we know men did talk: their strength, their frailties and their humour are revealed as from Life; and over all hangs the tense, unnerving atmosphere of war with its heartrending tragedies and horrors. In Nine Countries. “Journey’s End” is a play with a universal appeal. From London, where it has been running for ten months, it has pursued an all-conquering course to France, Germany, Sweden, America, Australia and New Zealand, and it will shortly be produced in Austria and Czechoslovakia. A long opening instalment will «