James Curtis on casting Journey's End

I’m working on a long piece about Journey’s End, a 1928 stage play set in a British trench during WWI, which was Colin Clive’s first big role. Here’s a short excerpt about his casting in the second run of the play.

This comes from James Curtis’s fine biography of James Whale – I am working from the 1982 edition from the Scarecrow Press, but there’s also a revised edition from 1998. Scroll down for the transcript; each image is clickable to view at full size.

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