The Fourth Dimension

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"The Fourth Dimension" gives a new and interesting angle on the ever-present problem: can a wife pursue a professional career and not have it spell disaster for the home?

Jessica Yeo is a member of an intensely matte-of-fact, practical English family, upper middle class, who makes a hit

in a small part in an amateur performance at the Town Hall. Mr. Pell, the director, asks her to act in the Christmas

plays at the Castle, where she is to be the guest of the Duchess of Sloden. Mrs. Yeo immediately builds a three-story

romance centering on Mr. Pell, whose interest in "Jess" she ascribes to but one cause. "Jess" explains that Mr. Pell

is not a man, but a "producer," who persistently ignores the fourth dimension.

"The fourth dimension...?" inquires Mrs. Yeo.

"There are only three sides to the stage, aren't there? The missing side is the fourth dimension. In the sense I

mean, that missing side includes everything beyond the footlights, and that is the side which Mr. Pell ignores. He

doesn't ignore it, collectively, as an audience."

Step by step, Jessica Yeo advances until she captures London. Meantime she has married Cherrington, a playwright of

unusual merit, whose love for her is so great that he finds himself merged in his wife's triumphs, with the result

that his own genius for creative work begins to languish. He goes away to work in the country, falls ill, and the

inevitable results; Jessica finds that the fourth dimension, in her life at least, cannot be ignored—that life, love,

and her husband are all that really matter.

A clever tale with many glimpses behind the footlights; bright, spirited action and great variety.