Word: mullens
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Jeannie (Barbara Mullen, Michael Redgrave; TIME...
Jeannie (Barbara Mullen, Michael Redgrave; TIME...
...purse in charge, is as real as hers. Michael Redgrave is equally sound as the Englishman. The personnel of Vienna's Hotel Splendide is good enough to have come out of Bemelmans. But the real weight of Jeannie is carried (like a feather) by British Stage Actress Barbara Mullen, the clothes she wears, the lines she handles so delicately, while she turns old-maidishness into a surprised, nascent loveliness. "We never speak about sex in Scotland, Mr. Smith," Jeannie says primly. But Miss Mullen needs no lines. If there were more actresses as good as she is, there would...
Luminosity, precision, an illusion of floating through flawless air are effects she strives for and sometimes gets in the new medium. Her Naval Academy murals are excellent. A portrait of Mrs. Mullen's son on a tricycle, on view in the window of Chicago's Findlay Galleries, once slowed up traffic considerably on Michigan Avenue. There have been other unreckoned results...
People who look at her portraits are apt to find themselves disconcertingly in the picture, by reflection. A well-grounded, competent artist in her own right, Mrs. Mullen concedes with reluctance that her material is now matériel. She says sadly: "If people would realize that a sheet of 10-gauge steel 6 by 18 ft. would only make one and one-half inches of battleship plate, and even then it's too thin...