Bristol Mercury - Tuesday, April 9, 1895
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Theatrical Mems.
The downfall of Oscar Wilde has naturally caused extreme consternation among managers who are producing his plays. Mr George Alexander has sensibly decided that as there is nothing objectionable in the remotest degree in "The Importance of Being Earnest," there is no reason why he should upset the arrangements of the St. James's Theatre and turn a number of people out of employment by withdrawing it. The name of the author, however, will be totally suppressed in all the advertisements and programmes of the theatre. Messrs Waller and Morell have adopted the same course with "An Ideal Husband," which finished at the Haymarket Theatre on Saturday night, and is to be transferred to the Criterion shortly, and so has the management of the Lyceum Theatre, New York, where the same play is running, but will be withdrawn after this week. Miss Rose Coghlan, who has been playing "A Woman of No Importance" is the Western States, has resolved to omit it from her repertory, and we hear the provincial managers are cancelling dates for Wilde's plays in all directions.
The downfall of Oscar Wilde has naturally caused extreme consternation among managers who are producing his plays. Mr George Alexander has sensibly decided that as there is nothing objectionable in the remotest degree in "The Importance of Being Earnest," there is no reason why he should upset the arrangements of the St. James's Theatre and turn a number of people out of employment by withdrawing it. The name of the author, however, will be totally suppressed in all the advertisements and programmes of the theatre. Messrs Waller and Morell have adopted the same course with "An Ideal Husband," which finished at the Haymarket Theatre on Saturday night, and is to be transferred to the Criterion shortly, and so has the management of the Lyceum Theatre, New York, where the same play is running, but will be withdrawn after this week. Miss Rose Coghlan, who has been playing "A Women of No Importance," in the Western States, has resolved to omit it from her repertory, and we hear that provincial managers are cancelling dates for Wilde's play in all directions.