NEW REGENT
“JOURNEY’S END” The queues of patrons who are lining up in almost every country to see “Journey’s End” are a living testimony to the fact that “Journey’s End” is probably the most popular piece of entertainment ever offered. The reasons are not hard to seek. “Journey’s End” is a. war film, but it does not harrow one. It is really a story of love—that love which softens men even in the damp confines of a dcigout on the Western front, love which makes men sacrifice their lives for their friends. Leavened into the story is priceless humour, even in the hour of death. Thrills there are a-plenty, but the essence of the drama is in the fact that there is no apparent seeking for heroics. It is all so sincere and convincing that the audience lives with the soldiers during the unfolding of the play. The secret of its popularity is the fact that it depicts war without over-emphasising the horrors of war. It is human, with the best characteristics of the Britisher uppermost. It is sentimental without being sickly; strong in drama, with gales of laughter to blow away the tense, sad cruelty of its warlike character. The programme at the Regent also includes several shorter talkie items.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 15
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211NEW REGENT Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1053, 18 August 1930, Page 15
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