Featured in today's edition of "unexpected connections to Journey's End": noted socialist/suffragist/feminist/anti-imperialist/labour organizer/future Minister of Education/all-around icon Ellen Wilkinson, MP.
This is one dinner party about which I want to know every single detail, but alas, must settle for this brief article from the Nottingham Evening Post, January 23, 1930. (Bonus irrelevant chicken-related news included; it's what R. C. Sherriff would have wanted.)
Transcript below:
MISS ELLEN WILKINSON, M. P.
THE GOOD FAIRY OF "JOURNEY'S END"
Miss Ellen Wilkinson, M.P., is the fairy godmother of "Journey’s End."
It was she who introduced Mr. Maurice Browne to Mrs. Dorothy Elmhirst, the daughter of a millionaire, and it was Mrs. Elmhirst’s interest in Mr. Browne’s theatre ideals that caused her to find the money without question when Mr. Browne made his rapid decision to present Mr. R. C. Sherriff’s famous play.
Mr. Browne spoke of those obligations at the supper following the “Journey’s End” anniversary--with the original “dug-out” scene from the Savoy Theatre as a background to the Kit-Kat festivities--in the small hours of yesterday morning. Miss Wilkinson was present.
Colin Clive, sitting beside Jeanne de Casalis, his wife, made a humorous speech in which he foresaw the need for an institute for the cultivation of infant actors to play in the interminably running “Journey’s End.”
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At the London Bantam Club Show, Tooting, to-day, Mr. R. F. Hearnshaw, Burton Joyce, four firsts and cup for the best bantam in the show.
