Not, I suppose, since Elisabeth Bergner made her name in
Escape Me Never has an actress on the London stage leaped so decisively into sudden fame as Barbara Mullen has done in the past ten days. I shall be singularly surprised, and considerably depressed about London playgoers' tastes, if (subject, of course, to diversions created by Herr Hitler) yeannie, at Wyndham's, does not run for a clear twelve months at the inside. But that, of course, depends—I must make that reservation—on whether any actress can preserve through a run of weeks or months the astonishing freshness and spontaneity which fits Miss Mullen so admirably for the name-role in this simple but completely delightful play. To any who feel that in the midst of present discontents an evening of lightness, charm and a touch of pathos, with no undue strain on the intellectual faculties, :s what will speak to their condition, leannie as played (pr:- manly) by Barbara Mullen and Eric Portman can be recon:- mended with no qualification at all. Some may live to thank rue for having sent them there.
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