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Original paragraph in
New Zealand Mail - Friday, June 7, 1895
New Zealand Mail - Friday, June 7, 1895
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The Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday, April 8, 1895
The Yorkshire Evening Post - Monday, April 8, 1895
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GOSSIP FROM LONDON STAGE-LAND.From Our Special Correspondent
London, Good Friday, 1985.
In New York the news of Oscar Wilde's arrest sufficed to end the runs of his plays, which I imagine were not paying over well. Here in
London we are less particular, and the managements of "The Importance of Being Earnest" and "An Ideal Husband" have simply erased the author's name from
the playbills. Some of the papers are very indignant on the subject. The Weekly Sun says:—
"Is it good taste, to say the least of it, for a fashionable house to seek to attract ladies and gentlemen to a work by a man who
stands in the position of this author? It is good taste to allow English ladies to speak the words of such a man?
"The erasure of his name from the bills and programmes is mere trifling. The excuse that people would be thrown out of work is not to
the point. A revival, a stop-gap of any kind, could surely have been provided, and successful managers could afford to pay their hands for a little while
until the theatre could be re-opened.
"It is a very terrible business, and it seems remarkable that London managers cannot see matters in their true light.
"Does the action of such managers help to remove from this city of ours the stain, the stigma, and the disgrace that recent events have
brought upon it?
"If there are managers who ask the public to patronise such a man through his work, if there is a public to support such plays—does it
not show a decadence in Englishmen, a blunted feeling, a suspicion that we are saying, 'What does it matter?'"
Respecting the foregoing, Mr Sydney Grundy has delt a coup de grace to the controversy in the following epigrammatic comment:—"I
wonder on what principle of law or justice, or Christian charity, an author's name is blotted from his work. If a man is not to be credited with what he
has done well, by what right is he punished for what he has done ill?"
Mr. Sydney Grundy writes to the Telegraph:—"I wonder on what principle of law, or justice, or common sense, or good manners, or
Christian charity, an author's name is blotted from his work. If a man is not to be credited with what he has done well, by what right is he punished for
what he has done ill?