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Drama
van Doren, Mark | April 10, 1929 issue

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"Journey's End" is probably the best war play, as per the ratings. This in spite of the fact that it is utterly simple and quiet, consisting as it does of conversations among a handful of British officers in one undistinguished dugout before St. Quentin in March, 1918. There is very little booming of guns, though the Germans are only seventy yards away in dugouts which one realizes are just like this one. Such noise as does come down is rather like gently rolling thunder; there is more significance, perhaps, in the intermittent flares of green light that speak softly of No Man's Land and death lying in wait.

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JOURNEY'S End (Theatrical production); NO Man's Land (Theatrical production); DRAMA; PUBLIC officers; GERMANS; BRITISH
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