“JOURNEY'S END”

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 103, 3 May 1930, Page 3 (Supplement)

“JOURNEY'S END”

A WONDERFUL RECORD FIFTY-SIX COMPANIES PLAYING IT RECEIPTS OVER £598.000 ‘•Journey’s End,’’ the war play by a young insurance clerk, Robert Cedric Sheriff, has been running for well over a year in London, and on March 22 celebrated its first anniversary (401 performances) in New York. In both cities it is expected to run for a considerable time longer. Fifty-six companies are now playing “Journey’s End,’’ in 22 languages, to a gross of more than £50,000 a weekHere arc the takings of the phenomenally successful play up to March B—and of course the end ,t not yet—- £ London 112,000 Three British tours 72,000 Australian and N.Z. .tours .. 37,000 Continental tour 14,000 Far Eastern tour .. .. ~ .. 9,000 Total ;. 244,000 In America £ New York 103.000 Chicago Company 69*673 Canadian Company 55,445 Southern Company .. .. .. 22,683 Eastern Company 33,655 Total 345.430 London Run to End The London run of “Journey’.l End” will close on May 24. It has been running there since January 21 of last year. South Africa will see “Journey’s End” in August, acted by the company that was in New Zealand hist year. A novelised version of “Journey’s End,’’ by Air Sheriff and Vernon Bartlett, was recently published. In it the boyhood of Stanhope and Raleigh is more fully developed and there is a love interest. “Journey’s End” in Ireland i “Journey’s End,” with an excellent I company, is touring Ireland, visiting I Dublin, Cork and Belfast. • I There was some doubt as to how this play would be received in the Free State, but packed houses at Cork gave the play and players an ovation following each In (Dublin the opening performance saw hundreds turned away, and extra matinees are to be given to meet the demand for seats.

SLAPPED HIS FACE ACTRESS ASSAILS “CAT-CALLER” At the Palace Theatre, Bath, during the second house of a revue “High Toppers,’’ last month, Aliss Jean Collins, the leading lady, left the stage and slapped the face of a man sitting in the stalls. The incident followed interruptions and cat-calls during Miss Collins’ song with Jack Mayo, the leading comedian. “I tried hard to carry on,” she said in an interview, “but the disturbance was too much. It was the first, time that, anything has made me cry on the stage. If such a thing occurred again I should feel justified in repeating the action- ” “It was Jean’s big scene,” said Air Mayo, “and it was tough on her to have it ruined- The tears were roll-