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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

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At that time Maurice Evans, now the foremost classical netor

Disappointing

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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.

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