Show O3OAR AMD VERA < T Mi Oscar Wilde has learned that I Mulem the main it is true that uthhig is good enough for Am sm < the rule willnot always hold o r Aid There are some things that fr No bad for America Oscar and Ir Lang try were good enough for j M ocd they were too good Ve Md them both rich and ourselve ict oua in running after them line Oscars play Vera is posit ive1 y not good enough for America i tlt > mauler who misjudged the llilr loan capacity for gullibility Jtl6 815000 in a vain effort to make 1 i untry swallow the truck and pi i ir unce it good and now declares t ece is downright rubbish > j it literary or dramatic merit I jcvdisi J nnded the company and 1tr af s > w flies he could do the same to Aiie Oscar however has not lost all faith in American stupidity and he is said to contemplate a raid upon the provinces meaning all outside of New > York with his play lie to assume the leading character in the drama He says the failure of Vera in the city was due to his absence from the cast It is hoped that Oscar will carry out his threat and undertake the tour of the i provinces This will give the country an opportunity for partly redeeming itself with regard to him and at the same time a chance to crush out whatever what-ever life there may be in his childish child-ish composition It so happens that through a long course of training the provinces have come to be as good judges of dramatic effort as the metropolis It used to be that if a play were decently received in New York the country elsewhere accepted it as good without question Now however even Salt Lake takes delight in expressing her own judgment and at will sits down upon a play or player without asking or caring what New York did with them If Mr Wilde is anxious to find out just how he and his work stand before the American public by all means let him tackle the provinces with Vera and he will learn n |