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The Chicago Tribune - Sunday, May 5, 1895
San Francisco, Cal., May 4. - The downfall of Oscar Wilde has been a serious blow to the Rev. Kadir Edward Davis, pastor of the Central Christian Church of Oakland. For a week or more he has been almost frantically busy calling in advertising lithographs scattered throughout California announcing that "the Rev. Kadir Edward Davis," popularly known as "the American Oscar Wilde," would appear at a certain date and deliver a lecture. It is a ticklish time for the esthetic clergyman. He no longer wears a sunflower and is struggling with the temptation to cut his long hair. He has had new plates prepared for his display lithographs, and hereafter he will be proclaimed merely as "the versatile gentleman." For years Mr. David traveled over the United States announcing himself as the "American Oscar Wilde," a designation given him by an Eastern paper. The Rev. Dr. Davis is the preacher who gave an impersonation of Richard III. in the pulpit, and before the criticism upon his introduction of the drama to emphasize his sermons had spent itself Parson Davis danced through a sermon to illustrate the harmlessness of the waltz.
The Daily Inter Ocean - Sunday, May 5, 1895
San Francisco, Cal., May 4. -- The downfall of Oscar Wilde has been a serious blow to Rev. Kadir Edward Davis, pastor of the Central Christian Church of Oakland. For a week or more he has been almost frantically busy calling in advertising lithographs scattered throughout California announcing that "Rev. Kadir Edward Davis, popularly known as the American Oscar Wilde," would appear at a certain date and deliver a lecture. It is a ticklish time for the esthetic clergyman. He no longer wears a sunflower, and is struggling with the temptation to cut his long hair. He has had new plates prepared for his display lithographs, and hereafter he will be proclaimed merely as "The Versatile Gentleman."
"I am at a loss to know just what to do," said the clergyman today when seen at his study. "It is true that I have been a great admirer of the author of 'Dorian Gray' and 'A Woman of No importance.' The title of 'The American Oscar Wilde' was bestowed upon me when I was at college and I rather liked it. I believe in esthetics. I think a preacher should be a leader in dress as well as in thought. A day for preachers of the gospel to garb themselves in camel's hair and leathern girdles is past.
"I took Oscar Wilde as my model. I think he is a man of great genius. I felt it an honor to bear the title of an American Oscar Wilde, but with his own and the civilized world turned in horror against him, I hasten to have my advertising cards and lithographs changed. I am not going to pose any more as the American Oscar Wilde. I don't just know how I am going to get the public to drop the title."
Rev. Dr. Davis is the preacher who gave an impersonation of "Richard III" in the pulpit and before the criticism upon his introduction of the drama to emphasize his sermons had spent itself Parson Davis danced through a sermon to illustrate the harmlessness of the waltz.