CLEANLINESS.

Inangahua Times, Volume XVIII, Issue 508, 12 June 1895, Page 2

CLEANLINESS.

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Oscar Wilde jn his prison cell wliilst tw > London theatres are crammed with audiences dolfghted with the clever situ ations and li|h. persiflage of plays from j his pen, in ths full tile of thoir popular** | ity, when lus careo.r was abruptly cut short. Tho iituation was a little awkward for the juanagers of St, James' Theatre, whoro "The r *upr".*Ut.ce of Being Earnest "13 played and for Messrs Waller and Moreli, who had arrange*".!* to continue at the Criterion tho successful run of "An Ideal Husband." They have attempted to meet it in a manner that is problematically wise, but indubitably mean.} Tht-y keep on the plays, but erase the nahie of tbe * dishonored author. In the Utiitod States, where, the "Ideal Husband ". J|as' ; been played to crowded houses, tho has heroically with-, drawn it, afpfoceeding in which there is at least spine logic. To show one's moral indignation by omitting the name of a dishonored and degraded author, , and to continue taking at the door the money ha 4rtngs in, i3 quite another thiDg. It is' impossible to feel any regret at the fate that has at length tracked the evil footsteps of Oscar Wilde. But the pity of it is „i nfinite. After long struggling with costly habits and inadequate means, Wilde has reached a position in which he foijnd a fortune as well as fame. His play3, rvjnning in the United States and simultaneously in two theatres in London, brought him in large revenues. Having outlived the well <*. considered foolishness o| his Illy and . sunflower days, bo had before him a honorable and lucrative career. Then his sin finds him out, and aU iu blackness and night, -he sensation evented in London by the criminal proceedings are commensurate with the wideness of the circle to which Wilde was .personally known, and that included everybody worth knowing. The last time I uiat liim at dinner was at a small party in a private dining-room at the I Tou*<e of Coninions. The host, heir presumptive^ to a peerege, an ex-Minister, belongod, Hlr,e the majority of his guests who included Mr Arthur Balfour), to thc most, exclusive mi it. London. Wilde, as usual amid- such surroundings, was in brilliant cotiverpa tional form. In his narrow cell, or hereafter in company with tho coarsest of mankind, with nothing in hU djfess to distinguish between them and thf sybarite, hb will doubtless sometimes tljjjtok of that particular evening, and of n»h.y another akin to it. The bitterest pn<i|||^hi_. punishment will be