Indianapolis Times, Volume 41, Number 160, Indianapolis, Marion County, 14 November 1929 — Page 7

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MAKING A VISIT TO SEE A GREAT PLAY Dreams of Gardens, Knowledge of Cockroaches and Value of Pepper in Soup Figure in 'Journey’s End.’ BY WALTER D. HICKMAN AN overnight journey to the Hartman theater in Columbus, Ohio, enables me to give you the complete lowdown on “Journey’s End.” it is probably safe to say that "Journey's End” is among the three moet discussed plays Broadway has given us this year. And so it was proper for me to go to Columbus and tell you about the same company in “Journey's End” which opens Monday night at English’s.

To begin with “Journey's End," Is not a strong language play. It is the strongest emotional war play, even in its simplicity, that I have ever witnessed on the stage. While "What Price Glory” oursed the war into its grave, “Journey’s End” gives you the natural emotional side of the terrible racket. In “Journey’s End,” we are concerned more with the attitude oi English officers toward the war than the doughboys. The entire action of the three acts takes place in an officer's dugout In the British trench before St. Quentin, March. 1918. At. the opening of that dugout is the roar and the almost sure guerantee of death. At times, it all becomes so very still that even the officers complain and worry because it is so still and so different than one naturally expects. The only light in the dugout is the light of candles on a crude wooden table of Captain Stanhope which serves a.s his desk as well as the mess table for the officers. Even around the top of one of the candle holders you evpn hear from one of the. officers that it is the race track for a large cockroach that develops jolly fine speed. And we learn that when the officers stage a cockroach race there is a trick even to this sport. Just dip the cockroach in whisky and the speed attained is most satisfactory to the master of the cockroach. Just a Candle As the curtain goes up on the first act, you see an officer calmly toasting a sock, “a really beautiful sock,” over the flame of a candle. He explains to Lieutenant Osborne that this really “beautiful sock” keeps the feet dry but it really picks up a lot of water. This first dash of realism struck me a terrific blow right at the beginning of the play. It seemed to me to be a guarantee that R. C. Sheriff, the author of the play, was going to give us real human situations. Even the officers find time, during hurried meals and not so good when questionable outlets resembling liver is served and the tea tastes of onions, to talk of the natural things of life. Second Lieutenant Trotter is a cockney who refuses to let the war rob him of his sense of regular humor. He has a garden at home and he proudly exhibts a photograph of one hollyhock that measured ever so much in height. Trotter tells you once that he '

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must write a letter home to his old lady and tell her whether he had j fleas or not. “Wish they were fleas,” 'he said. This human background permits j the playwright to introduce a serii ous study that of fear. Fear of death and how to escape the fear as well as death itself is the real problem of this play. Captain Stanhope, played with such fine restraint as well as complete abandonment when under great stress by Charles Cullum, has j fear in his heart that can easily shatter his nerve. But he has carried on for three years and has the I reputation of being the best captain | that England had over there, j How- did he keep fear and the yellow streak out of his being? By whisky. He could drink a quart in | no little time and then “pick up his own hat” and walk home, the dugout. So Stanhope drowned himself in | booze and thus at times exaggerated ‘ his emotional explosions. And he i has explosions, violent, terrible, cruel and damaging, but his reai self, his fine sporting and regular self rises out of the ashes and conquers. The Gerat Scene Powerful is the scene when Stanhope looks into the yellow fear eyes of Second Lieutenant Hibbert, played emotional and dramatic artistry by Richard Nicholls, and draws his revolver to kill Hibbert if he tried to put over a fake sick relief just before the drive. Hibbert crouches and springs at his superior, there is a blow, but the revolver does not smoke. Hibbert becomes the crying dog and out of his ashes of despair comes th'e real man and Hibbert and his captain go hand in hand to battle because both have fear, one kills it in booze and (Chest Colds Rubr well over . throat and chest W Vapoßub OVEtfl? MILLION JARS USED YEARLY EVAN S* AT ALL GROCERS

the other shows It and advertises his fear. This is one scene, so marvelously acted, that I will never forget. Asa play, “Journey’s End” is the big honest realistic shot of all war plays. It is war and not a play rigged up as exciting theater. Here is a play with a cast that I can recommend. Please remember I have seen this play, I made a journey to see it and I know its great worth. Here is one of the few plays, both as to cast and as a show, that deserves capacity at every performance when it opens at English’s on Monday night for three days only. | Lew' Leslie opens “Blackbirds,” at English's tonight for three days. It; is an all-Negro revue. Other theaters today offer: Charlie Murray, at the Lyric; “Sunny Side Up,” at the Apollo; Charlie Bavis, at the Indiana; “Welcome Danger,” at the Circle; “Why Bring That Up,” at the Ohio; “Marianne,” at the Palace; burlesque, at the Mutual, and movies at the Colonial. White elephants are considered sacred in Siam, and they are given a funeral greater than that accorded a prince.

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JAPANESE HOLD MIMICWARFARE More Than 100 Planes Take Part in Battle. By United Prett TOKIO, Nov. 14.—More than one hundred airplanes participated in the fall military maneuvers in IbarafeT prefecture today and will continue to do so for four days. Especial attention is paid to aerial scouting, defense and attack during the war games. Two armies, an eastern and a western, are participating in the maneuvers. General Inoue commands the eastern force, consisting of the first and second brigades, the first cavalry brigade, a field artillery regiment and other units of the imperial bodyguard division and the first and second infantry brigades and otoher units of the first army division, r Aviation units are matched into two flight divisions to match their

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