Arizona republican., 1913-11-16
BY MAITLAND DAVIES

very long time. Last season Ada Lewis was one of the bright particu- lar stars in the Honeymoon Express and now Max Rogers is appearing there with "The Pleasure Seekers but none of the others have ever ap- peared there.
 "The Pleasure Seekers seems to have scored a tremendous success and with possibly few changes in the cast will undoubtedly last out the winter there.
 oscar Hammerstein announces au- thenticalIy, until further revised changed. withdrawn or denied that he will not give French and ltallah grand opera in New York this sea son: but that he will confine himself to grand opera in English at $2 and under. He wishes it to be distinctly understood that it is not because he is afraid of bucking the tiger-We mean the Metropolitan opera com Danv but because the architects, con tractors. scene painters and disturb ers-general are not prepared to turn his new opera house over to nm thls month as first agreed upon. lie Will not undertake to start such an ela- hOrate season as he has planned as late in the winter as January; there fore he will postpone 1t until next season.-or later. But he Will give such opera in English as the new world has never dreamed of hearing He will make the very popular sea son of opera now being given at the Century look like discarded horse car beside an up-tO-date eIectrIc car He will give them singers they have never heard or heard of. He Will give them the most stupenduousIY elaborate eXtraVagantly LII .and surpassingly complete productions that have ever been thought or, !et .aIone produced. He will-oh, well, he will be Hammerstein and you can figure the rest out for yourselves.
 The question as to whether or not Oscar Wilde is really dead promises to be as widely discussed ana as hard to settle as the theory that Ba- con wrote Shakespeare's plays. In the Pere Iachaise Cemetery in Parls where he is supposed to be buried, some admirers of Wilde's genius have erected a monument oyer his grave The monument which is in the form of a sphinx with rigid perpendicular wings caused a great deal of adverse criticism and the prefect of the ceme- tery ordered it's removal on the ground that il was pagan. Fms brought on a bitter controversy and the monument was allowed to remaln covered with tarpaulin while the au- thorities took the question Of it's re moval under advisement They finally decided to allow it to remain and last week it was re-unVeiled with appro- priate ceremonies.
 It has long been maintained by a great many people that Wilde had never died but that after he was re leased from prison broken. sick and ruined man he had gone to France and then fled to India where he was in hiding. This has been strenuouslY denied. but on the day of the unVell- ing of the memorial, Fabien Lloyd, q nephew of Wilde, made the positive statement that his uncle was alive and further that he (NNilde) had visit ed him during the night sometime last March at his lodgings in Paris and talked with him for several hours. charging him when he left to keep silent for at least six months about his presence in Paris.
 Lloyd stated further that if the tomb of Wilde were to be opened it would be found to contain nothing but wood, cotton wool and a large glass jar holding a manuscript by Wilde.
 According to Lloyd, Wilde. knowing that his tragic past could never be lived down arranged to be considered dead in order that he might disap- pear that he might live the rest of his life in peace under a new name in some part of the world where he was quite unknown. After the funeral he hid in the Petit Trianon at Yer sailles and then escaped to India where he has lived since except for