The Gazette - Saturday, May 25, 1895

THE WORLD OF THE STAGE.

Daniel Frohman had arranged for the American rights to Henry Arthur Jones's new comedy at the St James's theatre, "The Triumph of the Philistines," but at the end of the second act be went behind the scenes to see the author, with the result that New York is not to see the play, at least at the Lyceum. There is, says a London correspondent, a suggestive paradox in the fact that the piece which was removed to make room for the new production, I mean Oscar Wilde's "Importance of Being Earnest," was as pure, refreshing, and altogether delightful a little farce as can be imagined, while the work following it, by Mr. Jones, who is a man of high morals and lofty ambitions to improve the tone of the drama, has produced throughout the effect of dirt and vulgarity, and left an extremely nasty taste in the mouth.