Opened in September 1913. Closed December 20, 1913 after 123 performances — 4 months. The Temperamental Journey, originally titled Such Is Life, is a 1913 play by Leo Ditrichstein, adapted from Pour Vivre Heureux by André Rivoire and Yves Mirande. It is a three-act comedy with three settings and twenty characters. The story concerns an unhappy artist who survives a suicide attempt but is assumed to have died, and finds the commercial success in "death" that escaped him in life. Wiki link