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OSCAR WILDE MYSTERY.
A NEW PLAY DISCOVERED.
Was Oscar Wilde the author of a recently discovered fairy play "For Love of the King"&
VILLA CARLOTTA.
A SYNDICATE FOR ITS MAINTENANCE.
Rome, November 8.—The future of one of the most beautiful and famous places in Italy, Villa Car- This was the question discussed. lotta, on Lake Como, is being much --26 years after Wilde's death-discussed these days. The Lom- in an action for libel brought by bard Lakes have been enchantol Messrs. Methuen and Co. Ltd., ground for travellers for many publishers, against Mr. Christo-generations, and Villa Carlotta pher Sclater Millard, author and possesses most things which go to bookseller, of Abercorn-place, make up the idealised Italian Hampsteari, In the King's Bonch palace of' pootry, and romance, Division recently.
Originally it bolonged to the
The hearing contained pasa-Clerici family of Milan. Towards ages which Wilde, could he have the close of the eighteenth century been present, would have richly it passed into the hands of the Eenjoyed..
Somarivns of Lodi, and about Afty-
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Mr. Merriman, K.C., gald that years lator Count Somariva. gold It Mr. Millard was at one time well to Princess Marianne of Prussia, nequainted with Oscar Wilde, and who gave it to her daughter Char-" Msince his death had been regarded flotte on her marriage with Prince
ae an authority upon his works. George of Saxe-Meiningen, “-
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He was also a writer under the
pen name of Stuart Magon.
"Stars Like Women's Eyes."- In 1921 Messrs."
When Italy joined the allies In 1916, Villa Carlotta was confis- cated by the Italian Government, Hutchinson and Italy's possession of it was published in their magazine what confirmed by the Treaty of Ver- Ethey described as a remarkable sailles. But the upkeep of such a N literary discovery called "For villa entailed heavy expense, and Love of the King," which purport to prevent all possibility of a pa- Ted to be by Oscar Wilde. It was tional monument passing. agnim prefaced by a letter, written to a under foreign control, a number of Mrs. Chan Toon, and purported public-spirited citizens of Milan to be signed by Oscar Wilde. have formed a syndicate called
Mrs. Chan Toon was the wife of "Ente per la Villa Carlotta a barrister and had been acquaint- The syndicate is to take over the Ced with. Wilde's family. Later property for a period of twenty she divorced her husband and be years, and provide funds for its ap- came Mrs. Woodhouse Pearce. keep. The villa and gardens are The letter which made a gift of to be thrown open to the public, the MS. to Mrs. Pearce was as while it is proposed during tr follows:
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I am sending you a fairy play series of concerts, picture shows,
performances, entitled "For love of the King" theatrical.
etc. for your amusement. It is the out-which should add to the attractions. come of a luminous talk with your of the Italian Lakee for the in- distinguished husband in the Tem- numarable visitors of all nations.. ple in the days when I was medi-The Italian Government has giverz tating writing a novel as beautiful its consent to the project. and as intricate as a Persian pray
ing rug.
I should like to see it acted in or the letter. Women did such your garden house on some night curious things, he said, and did when the sky is a sheet of vollet not always keep important. docu- and the stars like women's eyes.ments. \.
1, who am bathing my brows in Mr. Justice McCardie: Don't the perfume of water lilies, lay stress that too strongly. There myself at the feet of you and are three women on the jury. yours.-Oscar Wilde...
(Laughter.)
In 1925, continued counsel, Mr. Mr. Lover said that evidently Millard became obsessed with the Messrs. Methuen's staff did not idea that the work WHS not agree as to the merits of the play. genuine. It appeared that Mrs for Mr. E. V. Lucas described it Pearce had tried to sell bim six as "awful tosh.”
. letters alleged to be by Wilde, and His Lordship: I have read, the he at once became convinced that play, and there is intensity and they were forgories. By a similar colour in it. This sentence struck process of reasoning, sald Mr. me in the letter: "I should like Merriman he became convinced to see it acted in your garden- that if these letters were forgeries house on some night when the sky Mrs. Pearce had forged the play, is a sheet of vollet and the etars and he started a campaign which like, women's eyes." That is es- culminated in the libels complain-sentially the Oscar Wilde touch, ed of.
instinct and colour,
ان
On August 17, continued coun- sel, Mr. Millard sent to the book-:
"Meet You, On The Lido." Mr. Edward V. Lucas, chairman sellers of Great Britain and Ire-of Messrs. Methuen, said he was land a pamphlet containing the asked to read the play for publica- following:-
tion. He never doubted its With the assistance of Mrs. genuineness., Pearce this eminently respectable Mr. Merriman: You are said to firm of publishers has succeeded have called it "tosh"-That was in foisting .00 au unsuspecting only a conversational remark. public 1,000 copies of a book at. Mr. Lever suggested to Mr. Lu- Ba. Gd, which, but for Wilde's cas that it was easy to imitate the name and the imprint of the firm, style of an author. no one would have paid 8d. for. Parrot On Shoulder. Mr. George Ernest Webster, formerly managing director of work of R. L. Stevenson 7 (Laugh- Messrs. Methuen, said Mrs. Pearce, Mr. Lever said he would at- came to their office to sell them tempt to imitate Wilde, and, offer
ed the following as an example: the play.
She was rather eccentric, and "I should like to meet you on the had a parrot on her shoulder. Eldo, where the stars are like Cross-examined by Mr. Lever, diamonds on the sapphire sea." Mr. Webster aid that he never (Laughter.).
The case, was adjourned saw the original of either the play
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