The Daily Telegraph - Saturday, August 31, 1895
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THE DRAMA.
The Brough-Boucleault Company began a season at Adelaide on Tuesday with "An Ideal Husband." The prominence thus given to this play and its success in Sydney and Melbourne irresistibly suggest that the people who go to theatres to see it, in numbers far greater than those who are attracted by other pieces, are much fairer than the managers, who take all the advantage they can get from it and withhold the author's name. This is a practice one does not get tired of railing at. Each time it is repeated it cuts deeper into one's sensibility of justice. Either Messrs. Brough and Boucleault should refuse to take the money they get out of the piece--the piece that broke the monotonous disaster of their Sydney season, and seems to have done the same in Melbourne--or they should plainly announce it as by Oscar Wilde.