Captain Swift

Belasco Theatre / Los Angeles / October 5, 1908

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Charles Haddon Chambers

Playwright; born in Australia, April 22, 1860. He began life at age fifteen as a clerk under
his father in the Colonial Civil Service and later was a rider on an Australian cattle range.

Going to London in 1880 to begin a literary career, his first important play
was Captain Swift, produced by Beerbohm Tree at the Haymarket, London, in 1888.

His other notable plays are: The Idler, John A Dreams, The Tyranny of Tears,
The Honorable Herbert, The Old Lady, "The Awakening , and The Golden Silence.