1892 - Theater, Film

Theater, Film

Theater: Lady Windermere's Fan by Oscar Wilde 2/20 at St. James's Theatre, London, with Lillie Langtry, George Alexander, Ben Webster, Lily Hanbury, 197 perfs. Wilde has written the play especially for "The Jersey Lily" and says, "History is merely gossip" (II). "Anybody can make history," he wrote last year. "Only a great man can write it." He calls a cynic "a man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing" (III); Walker, London by James M. Barrie 2/25 at Toole's Theatre, London, with Irene Vanbrugh as Bell Golightly, 497 perfs.; Monsieur Goes Hunting! (Monsieur chasse) by Georges Feydeau 4/23 at the Théâtre du Palais Royal, Paris; The Masked Ball by Clyde Fitch (who has adapted a French play) 10/3 at Palmer's Theater, New York, with Philadelphia-born actor John Drew (Jr.), 38, Salt Lake City-born actress Maude Adams (originally Maude Ewing Adams Kiskadden), 19, who has adopted her mother's maiden name; Champignol in Spite of Himself (Champignol malgré lui) by Feydeau and a collaborator 11/5 at the Théâtre des Nouveautés, Paris; Widowers' Houses by George Bernard Shaw 12/9 at London's Royalty Theatre, with Wick Robertson, Florence Farr, 2 matinée perfs.; Charley's Aunt by English actor-playwright Brandon Thomas, 36, 12/21 at London's Royalty Theatre, with Henry Farmer as Charley Wykeham, Brandon Thomas, Nina Boucicault as Kitty Verdun, 1,466 perfs.