2-799-158 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Scene from the new comedy of "Old Heads and Young Hearts", at the Haymarket Theatre, 1844. London stage production of a comedy of manners by Dion Boucicault. The complicated plot involves two interlocking love triangles, mistaken identities, disguises, and sudden reversals. 'Our illustration represents the fifth act scene, wherein the good Rural is overwhelmed with the reproaches of everybody, just as he imagines he has been serving them. Mr. Farren's transition from the natural to the hysterical laughter, and subsequent weeping, was a wonderful piece of acting, alone sufficient to stamp him a great artist'. From "Illustrated London News", 1844, Vol V.