3-082-061 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Mr. Oscar Wilde's new play, "An Ideal Husband," at the Haymarket Theatre, 1895. London stage production. 'Lord Goring (Mr. C. Hawtrey) Burning the Compromising Letter; Mabel Chiltern (Miss Maude Millett): "I find the Earl of Caversham's conversation much more improving than yours." Sir Robert Chiltern (Mr. Lewis Waller). Mrs. Cheveley (Miss Florence West): "Ask him to what you owe your position." Lady Chiltern (Miss Julia Neilson)...in "An Ideal Husband" Mr. Oscar Wilde has draped the most conventional and commonplace of tales with frippery and furbelows, and opines he is an artist for doing so. As well call a modern housewife an artist for covering cheap furniture over with Liberty rags, and plastering penny-a-yard paper over with French made Japanese fans, and calling it art'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.