Clifford Bax Letter to Gladys Huntington, 1945

D2 Albany

London W.1.

Dear Mrs. Huntington,

I should have thought the “The Borrowed Life” would have a much better chance now than it had when we played it. Think how the world flocked last year to “A Month in the Country”, simply because it was Russian. 

What a strange play you have written in “The Ladies’ Mile” (not a good title: not dignified enough): but then you are a strange person with hypersensitive antennae. I do not think that the Society which you have so well depicted in this play would be of interest to the “tough” and democratic audiences of 1945, but to me the play had fascination. It was necessary to make Francis realize that most people would think him a cad. The point is that the “bounder” is often a bad version of the “hero”: and that is why women so often love him.

Very sincerely yours

Clifford Bax