TALENTED NEW ACTRESS

Evening Star, Issue 21719, 14 May 1934, Page 10

TALENTED NEW ACTRESS

COMING IN ‘ONLY YESTERDAY’ TO REGENT

Many and renowned are the names connected with ‘ Only Yesterday,’ coming to the Regent Theatre on Friday. No fewer than ninety-three featured players appear iu this drama. Margaret Sullavan, it is said, portrays faithfully, accurately, and without colour or bias a woman of understanding heart. In some of the scenes which rerpiire extraordinary delicacy in handling, leaving little to the imagination. Miss Sullavan overshadows the situation with a simplicity that makes them become a reality. It was an unusually difficult problem to secure a girl with the beauty, experience, and the dramatic fire to play Mary Lane. After Stahl had interviews! 250 applicants for the role, this is what Stahl himself had to say of the part and the requirements from the one who would play it satisfactorily: “ The trouble has been, in this case, that the woman capable of playing the role must be capable of expressing every human emotion. She must be intelligent beyond her, years, for she must live through thirty years of her life in a few short Weeks. She must have the understanding of an older woman, for she must develop from a young, charming, unsophisticated girl to a worldly woman. To run,this gamut of human emotions convincingly so that she will be able' to make girls of eighteen and women of thirty-one believe her, she must have an extraordinary talent.”