Galignani Messenger - Sunday, April 7, 1895

LONDON ECHOES
FROM OUR OWN CORRESPONDENT

LONDON, April 6

I really cannot see what the theatrical managers who are presenting two of Mr. Oscar Wilde's plays in London imagine that they gained by removing his name from the playbills last night. Mr. George Alexander says quite justly that "The Importance of Being Earnest" is a perfectly harmless piece. That is a reason for continuing the performance, but to blot out the name of the author, as if this act absolutely separated Oscar Wilde from his own work, is rather childish. No human being who sees either "The Importance of Being Earnest" or "An Ideal Husband" is likely to come to harm even if he or she should read on the playbills the practically indelible name of the author.