NATIONAL

Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 1060, 26 August 1930, Page 15

NATIONAL

“JOURNEY’S END” “Journey’s End,” tho brilliant screen version of the famous play, continues to thrill audiences at the National Theatre. In the Tiffany all-dialogue production of this R. C. Sherriff masterpiece, a key of romance is struck when Lieutenant Osborne, grey-haired with three years of war service, tells Lieutenant Raleigh, young, and just arrived in the front-line trench, to “think of it all as romantic—it helps.”

The first love interest shows in the hero-worship of the schoolboy, Raleigh, for his idol, Stanhope. He comes into tho trenches, and finds his idol wearing clay feet, but he understands why and how he became a drunkard, and still sees him as his hero.

Second is the love of Stanhope for Raleigh’s sister. She is never seen—not even her photo is shown to us—but if she were.there before one, one could not have a more poignant love story than is told with her absent.

The National’s programme also includes several talkie featurettes.

A delightful children’s matinee is being presented at the National Theatre every afternoon during the school holidays. It is called “Tom Thumb,” and is given by 40 tiny tots under the direction of Miss Lillian O’Leary. These children sing some of the latest London songs, give ballets and “tap” dances, as well as numerous pantomime and vaudeville novelties.