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Theatre critic BEVERLEY BAXTER finds ‘Journey's End' still tremendous after two wars
Sherriff was
no
LONDON.
fluke
lessly pounded, but he was in
ΤΟΥ the least exciting command of his company, and
he had to go through with it.
Then come
the mutilation and the bay subaltern.
episoda in the revival at the Westminster of "Journey's End" was when Superbly wrillen, and beauti-
death of
the play had run its course, fully acted. To a clamorous ovation, the curtain rose on the shatter- ed dug-out in a blue light that left the faces of the
Its a tremendous last net and doubly moving because rat on word is spoken in denuncia. Yet the waste, the lon of war.
actors inflatinguishable. war have
incantly and the blasphemy
rarely been SO
They stood in a row like dramatically exposed. ghosts, and no one spoke.
This play ot Sherriff's was no
It was a fiting climax to an nuke. It has a permanent place evening that corried so many of in the gallery of great tragedy, us back to the first production Because the cart chose at the more than 20 years, and still end to take a curtain without further back to the wor, the differentiation between its mem- Great War, Armageddon, the bers I shall not go against that sacrifice that was to bring wise convention.
eternal peace, Mr Sherrif had
written it originally for amateurs If you saw this play before to play, but by a miracle it you must see It ngala. If you reached the West End and awept have never seen, it, then go to the world.
Jearn how your fathers met the malignant challenge of the fates. Il a play that will live.
MARTYRS MARTYRS Young Olivier
ARE CATCHING COLD
(VERY year of your life
result
you lose at least two
working days as the
of u pestilentin! nuisance known to science
as Catarrhal Rhinitis, aliaa
HEPBURN
Adams Rib
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There's good ground- for
By Mark Priestley
At that time Maurice Evans, now the foremost classical netor
Disappointing
in New York, played the youth- MR BERNARD DELFONTS, ful subaltern. Young Laurence second Jewish play at the Olivier played the lead in the Saville, "The King of Schnor- production that
is Interesting, colourfut brought it
one th step further towards the com- and disappointing,
more
with Gary COOPER — Lauren BACALL[hoping the statistics will drewes uneasily wondered if avoid other people, vehicles dislodgements many disinfectants nerve worn whisky drinking Ernest Milton, although elegant
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gradually narrow until one day you will never catch cold, or you will be able to wipe it out in an hour or Ro If you do.
own small part in the battle rheumy condition listed in contents are thoroughly More startling-
A
the
A village of 22 elaborate-
Counter-agent cupants.
ista
there is something
Was it true?
suicide
con-
merclal theaire, which, DE Israel Zangwill
Was putting
dovoted his. д up virus, one producing the usual uzual,
life to writing stubborn defence. Fneezes, the other caudug a sore Clive tool over Olivier's role
of the virtues. Then Colin
and defects of his compatriots, throat and aching lmbs,
and zoomed to fame. Definite rewards, too, were Spealzit was another member Permanent
Robert
and In the process left much of
value. But for stained in an air-light room of the original cast,
rensons which are difficult to when a researchist, raked
and
unknown, explain, his novel "King of masked, flustered a dirty hand- unrecognised,
Schnorrers" does not stand up the common cold. It takes it into the nose or throats electric kettle; two bed- kerchief in front of a blower.
rooms and a bathroom. Un- Through
So the years pass by and once to the transition from novel to wali, 1 alit in the up no less than 25 percent of his best subjects.
more a group el actors young stage. If the test developed a der the pleasure and novelty material
dislodged tund invisibly
with ardent, and of the time lost in business
from the handkerchief was pennies than pounds, contrived Jew Grandee beggar in London Yet the theme of a Spanish and industry by sickness, cold, it might indicate that of discovering these sur-
virus- germ invisible un roundings, initial pulse and blown onto agar slides. Average to revive the plece at the little at the end of the 18th century,. Yet today, thanks to
use showed that a sugle dry Gateway Theatre: whereupon it der the most powerful temperature readings tend handkerchief medical volunteers from
could
dislodge
once more reaches the West End. chisels with such an air that his who bega co magnificently mid 130,000 bacterial particles, among Hongkong and elsewhere, microscope-had been trans to be slightly abnormal.
mitted. Everything march- Housed in paira, cach them the common cold virus in As the play developed at the vicllms are humbled, is one that the common cold is in re- irent.
ed from that point. Yet the couple can go for walks in virulent form, Here was certain revival, it was impossible not should be theatrically effective.
evidence of a method of infec- to compare it unfavourably with technique obviously had its the surrounding country-ti
the original production. Bir One of the troubles with the unpleasant side, and An- side after promising to
the bitter present production is that Mr In an attempt to lessen the Peter Rendall he could And suflicient and buildings. Meals are left were tried in vain.
a and patronizing, has not the zest The Im Company caplain remained
nice fellow where he should of a great rogue nor the joy helpers.
vacuum-packed at the door pregantion of handkerchiefs with
have been what Mr Roberts of the accomplished trickster. bromide has, would call a bastard. I could He necd not have step, together with bottles phenyl mercurie
however, produced fairly dc-
Again and again the plot is worried. I was
elder. Be- Unite Volunteer of free beer or
not see how he could summon in results
reducing
the fury and
Inito a situation the tenderness oeuvred I have just played my 678A and
caught a tween tests, bungalows and bacteria I
which the Inst det would de- where we expect to be carried mand of him. •
away, but instead we remain in our seats wondering what is by sharing "guinea pig the analysis charts as Cold sterilised. When the plum-
missing. Because It is not sulli. quarters" with 'n Hongkong 243D. My companion was ber has to carry out emer- BEFORE you rush to the chem-
ciently fantastic, it is unconvinc- medical student, virtually treated with anti-cold broth geney repairs, he even more starting Volunteers with
ing Imprisoned for ten days in and did not catch it from wears a transparent nylon bad colds used a badminton
Yct No one swore, no bag to prevent catching cold room.
one blas-
there were good When they fished play, sterilised bungalow at me.
himself or infecting the oc- Harvard Hospital, on
Only one of the officers tributions_by_Arthur Reynolds their sneezes left behind them phemed. An Invisible but highly
East India director; appeared to be sex-starved and as the rich edge of Salisbury Plain.
<langerous Kas attack of in- he was quite good-humoured Esta Stein as bio wife, and nur In practice, these controls have
Although the larger
about, if When the grey old friend Meier Tzelker (as fly equipped hutments, this is E doctors do not say proved highly effective. It took particles rapidly fell to the haired ex-schoolmaster lieutenant the death rattler) who could not they have developed a the early researchers ten years ground, the tinier ones rapidly and the boy just out from Eng- give a bad performance if he the clinical GHQ of the anti- counter-agent. They will of solid work to track the lost water by evaporation and land were waiting to lead a tried. cold war. In the past three probably have to try out flu virus, but Andrewes and his became so small and gotected trenches they talked of the New but not exhilarated
raid on the German In short, we were interested years over 1,000 volunteers several thousand cases le mon cold virus in barely 18 eflont in the air an hour after Forest and its beauties.
colleagues seized up the com- they could still be including honeymooners- fore making a claim in any months.
They now know they the sneezer had left the room. have signed on as guest direction. But neither my are dealing with guinea-pigs, undergoing de- companion nor the doctors millimetre in size.
#Berm
In short, here is one of the liberate infection with colds knew whether we were be they have succeeded in deep- about 11?
one ten thousandth of a ways you catch cold at home or
Since then at work. Can anything be dos and trying out potential
By flooding the bad- ing given virus or vaccine at storing it for six months in tubes minton room with ultra-violet recall the humour of the ranker dignity without losing in the time. The necessary of carbon-dioxide snow, and rays the Harvard researchists deer and how the mess orderly humanity. She moves as one dosages arrive from the after six months the virus 1s have found it possible to klil the resented serving him. Today who dwells in marble halls but Influenza virus laboratory test tubes till infective. This means that
in
the ranker keeps we recognise in and make the 'droplet-nuciol
her affinity with the for the next allicer the authentic accent of Lancashire mill girls and their room virus-free
our rulers. Perhaps it was an clogs. Her top notes have lost conditions players.
This suggests a whole new other world then. Tragedy nothing of their crystal quality, technique of hygiene, Typhoid there was in plenty, snobbery and she can touch the heart
but we had not banished through improvements munt
by the water-hygiene," says
years WE still do not know, however, in
Dr harshened
disillusionmení, why colds are commoner
"Air hygiene hopes Andrewes. in winter than in suminer. to do as much for airborne in-
surprisingly, Aged 18 to 40, the volun. Rather sneezed infection on other teers arrive on a
people fection." Wednes catch cold from inoculation less ferrets. One of the sungs in day. Apart from routine casily in winter. Over the year
common cold, clinical and X-ray examina colds probing the
infected washings
produce THE air hy glene teams have had however, is
that ferrets. tions, nothing is done for the
A remarkable success with ย volunteers, but the per- spray chemical known technically rats and other laboratory three days in case a cold cent
centage of winter takes
as hydroxy-methyl-bulyric acid, stock do not catch cold.
been picked up in you catch has
lower. This may indicate that It may one day prove possible Only chimpanzees are sus transit. Bealdes,
cold--and conquer for factories to ho kept re- new Ar more often than you think, lat ceptible.
gerin-free by passing latively rivals take time to settle and only When
the exceptional in- all employees through o disin- 53-year-old Dr
fection down.
breaks down your fectant air. lock. Here is Christopher Andrewes first
But then came the last act, evidence, at any
rate, that and for some reason I cannot switched from flu research Housed in pairs incidentulation's time
methods
of spraying theatres explain the whole production from inoculation to onset is and halls, insistence on fresh leaped into Ilfe. The great colds, he therefore knew he SIX of the Harvard prefabs usually two to three days, a clue air and the avoidance of crowd- German attack was at hand, shrieked with delight. But then
the Palladium have been divided into that may chable you to trace ing are all measures along the and with the stupid bankruptcy elther had to import an army of chimps or rely on two and converted into a act have one coming. It may have
the source of a cold if you must right track.
of the military mind in those always loved what might be Meanwhile the volunteers 60 days, the preliminary bom called posterior humour, visual humans. For the necessary of 12 comfortably furnished been passed to you on a bus or en sniffing and sacering in this bardment had begun.
ог verbal, The anatomy of fact-finding, he planned to chalets, each with a sitting in a teacup. When nasal secre- great catch-cold-as-catch-can
humour is a science worthy of take nasal washings from room equipped with radio, a lions are diluted to one in 100, experiment. The wayo
Suddenly the very weakness the nest brains, but the people with colds, filter this telephone,
as by saliva and washing, they science books and
of Mr fendall in the early part humour of anotomy wears very or Inter gave an extraordinary pathos to thin.
flatware and there are at least two types of bug will meet its match.
a boxer who has been merci-
Rerums.
WHEN
virus
the
Was
16 years ago,
influenza discovered
from the throat
labelled "A" to "D." Sume contain no more than saline and water. This prevents
washings auto-suggestion and ensures of shrewd diagnosis. Thus not an influenza patient were all guinea-pigs are awarded used on a ferret,
which sneezes automatically. promptly caught the flu and
to the problem of common
about
the common cold germ survive the coldest and still keep its wing.
of
can
Gracie Fields
Was this true? Were we like that in the far-off, war?
"done
In the original production RACIE
FIELDS
grows in
Lower in winter and dysentery have been nearly survived the fiercest bombard- strings with the delicacy of a
defences.
In 50
percent
Hygiene teams
Bre tireless
Sooner
and
Long may
she
been actress.
of reigni
But if I may intrude upon At the end of the second act queen's privacy might I suggest that she have a quiet tolk withr the play had Interested me but had falled to grip. The writing her brother Tommy. Mr Fields is tail, good looking and by no was terse, the characterisation
in means lacking was clearly
personslity. In defined, but the exaltation of great tragedy was
fact nature bestowed upon him some of the zame
Bungsumed not there.
dignity that his inter possesses, Then why does he content him- self with making vulgar jokes of such an ancient vintage that a sergeants' mess in 1914′ would have groaned at them?
Great tragedy
I admit that the Palladium sudlence chricked literally
audience har
material to remove the games; a dinette with its cunsill give a knock-out. Ex- undeviating.
periments also Indicate that the burdensome common cold Stanhope. He was used up like (World Copyright Reserved-Londem
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