A Hit Play That Never Found Its Audience

“Plays old and new flop on Broadway with a regularity that surprises nobody in the theater business. But the failure of ‘Journey’s End,’ R. C. Sherriff’s 1928 drama about British soldiers in the trenches of World War I, has been an unusually resounding one. The play received some of the best reviews of the season when it opened in February.” But “the show never found an audience and played to some of the smallest houses on Broadway this season, at times dipping to about 25 percent capacity at the Belasco Theater.”