The Daily Picayune New Orleans - Saturday, December 7, 1895

BEHIND THE SCENES.
Movements of Actors in the Great Drama
of the World.
Personal and Social Events Occuring
Abroad.
Instructive and Entertaining Panorama
of Royal and Imperial Life.
Reported Daily for the New Orleans
Picayune by the Marquise
de Fontenoy.

It seems to escape the notice of most of the English and American newspapers in connection with the extraordinary fuss made about what may be described as the free love union of Miss Lanchester (who was imprisoned by her parents as insane in consequence of this union and then released by order of the courts) that she was acting in the matter under the advice of the marquis of Queensberry, who found in her a ready believer in his very peculiar doctrines with regard to matrimony. It is astonishing that Lord Queensbury has not done far more harm. In the first place he's a brilliant and a remarkably clever man, though, like all his family, frightfully erratic. He has all the prestige of his rank which goes a long way with the middle and lower classes in England, far more than most people in this country would be willing to believe, and then his action in bringing about the disgrace and punishment of Oscar Wilde has placed him precisely in the eyes of the masses on a pedestal as the savior of society.

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The eldest son of the latter, Lord Drumlanrig, died under mysterious circumstances, which point towards suicide, and was among the friends and associates of that ignoble creature, Oscar Wilde, while his two younger brothers were shameless enough to publicly undertake that creature's defence in defiance of all sense of public decency and good taste, when their father, and subsequently the government itself, called him to account for his crimes.