Wishing Well. By E. Eynon Evans. (Comedy.) THIS astonishing comedy
exercises to the full the same sort of innocent emotional blackmail as may be found in the serials which trip along sweetly in some family weeklies. It is, that is to say, rich beyond the dreams of the evangelist in praiseworthy sentiments, simple sincerity and homely (very homely), healthy humour. There is no more harm in it than there is in those scented seconds of rhymed uplift which the readers of certain newspapers are enabled to snatch from among the sensations of the day—but a good deal more genuine feeling. Is it an irrelevance, then, if not a positive indecency (for so works this innocently bland blackmail) to suggest that it is not much of a play ? I can say this at any rate : that Lupino Lane is as badly cast as one of the two do-gooders around whom the play revolves as the author is well cast as the other. Not for a long time have I seen a man look so monstrously uncomfortable. No wonder.
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