The Evening News - Monday, April 8, 1895
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"MORAL HUMBUG."
Blotting Out the Name But Retaining the Plays.
The action of the managers of those theatres where Oscar Wilde’s plays are being performed in blotting out the author’s name while retaining the play, is severely canvassed in many of the provincial newspapers this morning. THE EVENING NEWS has something to say on the matter in the "Notes on News" column, but it is satisfactory to find that the exhibition of moral humbug to which the theatre managers are treating us is being condemned vigorously in many quarters. The Yorkshire Post says : "To keep the man’s plays running and remove his name from the playbills is both unjust and dishonest." Meanwhile in the cablegrams to hand this morning from America, we read : "From all parts of the United States expressions of disgust towards the fallen dramatist, Oscar Wilde, are being reported, and wherever any of his works are in theatre bills they are being hastily withdrawn. The management of the Lyceum, New York, has led the crusade by discontinuing the performances of ‘An Ideal Husband.'"