The Archive · 1899

The Tyranny of Tears

Mr, Hadden Chambers has deserted melodrama for the time and has just produced at the Criterion Theatre a play Which he describes as a Comedy of Temperament." Te is the story of a too jealous and exacting wife, whose eapriciousness Teas to an estrangement from her husband, rising young novelist, and to all sotts of complications, 'There is an admirable mixture of pathos and humour the play and it affords Miss Mary the jealous wife, one of the most telling and' admirably enacted parts which she has yet attempted, while Mr. Wyndham as the husband proves himself as finished an actor as ever.

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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