https://simanaitissays.com/2026/09/24/celebrating-oscar-wilde-annotations-part-2/Simanaitis Saysen2026-09-24T13:05:00+00:00CELEBRATING OSCAR WILDE ANNOTATIONS PART 2"The Annotated Oscar Wilde" specifically the play "The Importance of Being Earnest", Oscar Wilde on Germans and the German language, Cecily in "Earnest": "I look quite plain after my German lesson.", Globe Theatre "Earnest" 1939 cut short by outbreak of WWII, Jack Worthing's income? "between seven and eight thousand a year" (today around 1.5m U.S.), land vs investments (what with English taxes etc: investments were better), John Gielgud Margaret Rutherford in "Earnest" New York 1947, Lyceum Theatre programme November 1910, On neckties and being transported to Australia, Lady Bracknell: land "gives one position and prevents one from keeping it up."https://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/lede-2-1.jpeg?w=150https://simanaitissays.com/2026/09/23/celebrating-oscar-wilde-annotations-part-1/Simanaitis Saysen2026-09-23T13:05:00+00:00CELEBRATING OSCAR WILDE ANNOTATIONS PART 1"The Annotated Oscar Wilde" specifically the play "The Importance of Being Earnest", items gleaned from the annotations (not the main text), Henry N. Manney III on "crumpet collecting", Algernon Moncrieff on music: "play with expression not accuracy", talking like a dentist "produces false impression" (Ha!), dentists/doctors/"in trade" not welcomed in "Society", solicitors (attorneys) sorta admitted into "Society", Cecil Beaton drawing of Act I "Earnest", English crumpets sorta what Americans call "English muffins", On Various English Teas: "five-o'clock tea" versus "high-tea"/meat-teahttps://simanaitissays.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/09/lede-3.jpeg?w=150