The Cincinnati Enquirer - Sunday, April 21, 1895

A New York writer says: The indecent haste with which managers abroad and here wiped out the name of Oscar Wilde from their advertisements while still continuing to play his pieces and reap the benefit of his brains, received fitting rebuke from Sydney Grundy. We are glad to see that Mr. Charles Frohman has the courage of his convictions, and that he dissociates the work of the maa from the man himself. At the time the scandal came to a head Mr. Frohman was rehearsing a play of Wilde's called "The Importance of Being Earnest." It was published that he would immediately withdraw this piece from rehearsal. Mr. Frohman says he will do nothing of the sort. The play itself he thinks, is a good one. It is just as good or as bad as ever, whether Mr. Wilde be innocent or guilty. He does not believe that people go to the theater by reason of the character of the persons employed in the cast or the character of people who write the plays, and he is perfectly right. People go to theater actually to be entertained, and if Mr. Wilde can accomplish this result he might just as well do it as any one else. If all plays were to be tabooed that were written by men of bad character or no character at all, there would be mighty few good ones left to us.