“JOURNEY’S END.”

Waikato Times, Volume 107, Issue 18004, 26 April 1930, Page 17 (Supplement)

“JOURNEY’S END.”

ITS WONDERFUL RECORD. FIFTY-SIX COMPANIES PLAYING IT. RECEIPTS OVER £589,000. “Journey’s End,” the war play by a young Insurance clerk, Robert Cedric Sherriff, 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 week. Here are the takings of the phenomenally successful play up to March B—and of course the end is not yet—- £ London 112,000 Three British tours 72,000 Australian and N.Z. tours .. 37,000 Continental lour 14,000 Far Eastern tour 9,000 Total £244,000 In America. £ New York 163,974 Chicago Company 09,673 Canadian Company 55,445 Southern Company 22,683 Eastern Company 33,655 Total £345,430 London Run to End. The London run of “journey’s 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 last year. A novelised version of “Journey’s End,” by. Mr Sherriff 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.

"Journey’s End,” with an excellent company, is touring Ireland, visiting Dublin, Cork and Belfast. There was some doubt as to how ibis play would b*e received in the Free State, hut packed houses at Cork gave Die play and players an ovation following each performance. In Dublin the opening performance saw hundreds turned away, and extra matinees are to be given to meet the demand for seats.