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Show . 'N I- - X J - I i x I - - - . I N 's X x i "JOLK.NKV S KND" MOST i CiKAPWlC MINUS CX'KSKS j One of tlic several things about "Journey's End" as a drama is its lack of profanity. A play in which all the characters are men in ' which they are all soldiers, if you ! please, and prob.-My less weai ing j in it than any talking picture yet produced. ''Journey's End," current at the Rivoli theater, was written by R. C. Sherril'f without profanity and it did not get inserted in Hollywood, Holly-wood, despite the success or "What Price Glory" and "The Cock Eyed World." "Journey's End" is a story of men who have forgotten beyond the need of blasphemy. The war -their unnatural life, their nerve tension, their incessant danger has taken the edge off the most virile curses The suprelative and that's what profanity is is not half so forceful to these warriors as the simplest of words. For instance, Colin dive's line to the colonel, "How awfully nice it is the brigadier's pleased," is so much more heavily freighted with meaning mean-ing than any cursing. This man with his heart torn to bits over the loss of is best friend and his best officer can express his agony most succinctly in the biting sarcasm of the simple lines, repeated again when he says, "Still it'll be awfully nice if the brigadier's pleased!" Edgar Waite, in the San Fran-ci.- o Examiner, said of "Journey's End" "It's deeper than mere prolan pro-lan if y. It's the pathetic torment-I torment-I ing of men caught in a trap, of j nerves, physical and mental exhaus-i exhaus-i tion, the hope and the terror of ob-j ob-j livion and with it all the determina-j determina-j tion to keep bucked up." j "Journey's End" is playing at the Rivoli theater Sunday, Monday and j Tuesday. |
