The Washington times., 1906-07-08
& The Tyranny of Tears. u

Guy Standing and the Columbia The
ater company viii tomorrow COM
mence the eleventh week OF their sue
cessful summer engagement with the
production Of The Tyranny of Tears"
an amusing. and brilliant comedy by
Haddon Chambers, who also wrote
THE Idler" and Captain Swift" The
occasion Will also mark ths return 10
the company of its leading woman,
Miss Dorothy Hammond. whose sudden
Illness two weeks ago took her out Of
the cast Of Pink Dominos' and Jane. ."
The uniform strength of the company
Will be retained. and John Mason.
who was specially engaged more
man Tour weeks ago, and has re-
NAMED with the organization ever
since the presentation OF The -IdleF,"
VIII nave another important role TO
portray. Ia THE Tyranny of Tears
Haddon Chambers has written "A com
tuy or temperament in which there is
q minimum OF action and a maximum
or na5hing dialogue. The piece was
successfully produced in London by Sir
ChafIes Nyndham, where % attracted
lhe attention of Charles FrOhrnau. who
brought II out at the Empire ThcateF.
New York. with "A cast headed by John
Drew. supported by Arthur Byron.
Harry HarwoOd. Frank Lamb. Ida Con-
quest, Isabel Irving. and George
Mendum. THE Tyranny of Tears" is
rot only a case where the play is the
lnlne, Dut also where group Of accom-
pushed players are required 70 bring
out the bright passages in the constant
thrust and parry of the conversation.
For instance. there Is an amiable and
easy-gOlnG novelist who knows that his
wife IS silly goose. but has submitted
10 the tyranny of her COpiOus fountain
or tears until he has lost all his friends
and become almost "a literary hermit
Instead OF man OF the world observ-
ing lie as required by the eXigencles
OF his profession. The masculine aver
sion 70 scenes and the realization
that they are vulgar show him 20 be
OF the finer fiber and more sensitive
nature than the foolish woman with
whom ne Is mlsmated. But he has not
reflected on domestic circumstances
with enough seriousness 20 have ac-
Quircd the concentrated worldly wisdom
of his bachelor college friend. who de-
fcTs his uTst call upon the benedict
novelist until five years after the we'd
ding. This plain-dealtug Cyuic under
stands the novelist and his wife better
than they do themselves, but has Missed
one fortunate experience that had fallen
10 the lot OF his college chum in not
having learned how much a man Is will
ing To bear when he loves. The worthy
bachelor limitations IN this respect
cease when he is brought IN contact
with the self-Teliant, wcll-poised young
woman who finds a vocation of agree
able usefulness as the n0Vclists private
secretary ana an independence tndL is
In biissful contrast with the geutecl
poverty Of her condition as the thir-
teenth daughter of country clergyman.
The comedy treats of the marital situa-
tion from the bachelor point OF view
and is whimsical in its depletion OF
peculiar phase Of the COmmOuly-termed
'henpecked' husband possessed OF a
wife who does not openly rule. but who
invariably couquers with her tears. The
pretty typewriter is an amanuensis who
admires the lenienCy or the novelist, yet
pities him for his weakness in submit
ting 10 the tears of his euTgling wife
The wife mistakes these sentiments for
love and engendeTs complications by
demanding that the typewriter leave
the employment of the husband. who
finally finds his Independence and re-
fuses To discharge the girl without some
good reason. The wife ultimately real
ICES the absurdity OF her position and
the curtain dcsCcuds on general happi-
ness The usual matiuees viii be held
Thursday and Saturday afternoons.