From The Times, August 9, 1923
The author of The Eye of Siva, the “new mystery play” at the New Theatre, has taken as his text the motto of Cicero that it is invariably pleasant to look on the misfortunes of others. In this play, however, we have a series of misfortunes that could have befallen nobody on earth.
There is, in the first place, a thunderstorm that lasts throughout the play. Like so many stage thunderstorms, it is conspicuous for its lack of continuity. Whenever the humans in the play approach a culminating point of tragedy the heavens take a hand, and thunder and lightning are distributed with refreshing impartiality, but when the lighter side of the piece is in evidence there is a
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