Scenes from A Woman of No Importance (a play in four acts,) writen by the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde (1854-1900), and performed at His Majesty's Theatre, London, on May 22, 1907.
A Woman of No Importance is "a new and original play of modern life", first given on 19 April 1893 at the Haymarket Theatre, London. Like Wilde's other society plays, it satirises English upper-class society.
The Illustrated Sporting and Dramatic News, June 8th, 1907, "A Woman of No Importance" at His Hajesty's Theatre.
1- Mr. Tree as Lord Illingworth. 2- Miss Kate Bichop as Lady Caroline Pontefract.
3- Mr. Edmund Maurice as the Ven. James Daubeny, D. D.
4- Miss Kate Cutler as Lady Stutfield. 5- Miss Ellis Jeffreys as Mrs. Allenby.
6- Miss Viola Tree as the young American Girl, Hester Worsley, with her lover Gerald Arbuthnot (Mr. Charles Quartermaine).
7- Miss Marion Terry as Mrs. Arbuthnot, Lord Illingworth's Victim.
THEATRE PROGRAMME for A Woman of No Importance at His Majesty's Theatre, Wednesday, May 22nd, and Every Evening, at 8.30.
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