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SECTION FIVE-26

CLEVELAND, SEPTEMBER 26, 1976

The Cleveland Street Scandal makes a fairly intriguing footnote

to the period of Beardsley and Oscar Wilde. Montgomery Hyde has apparently dug out all that can be known about certain goings-on in a sleazy London homosexual brothel in which one Lord Arthur Somerset, head of the Prince of Wales's stables, was involved. There was an effort to hush the thing up, but there were also the usual leaks, deliberate or not, and it got into the papers, Parliament and ultimately the courts. Quite a to-do. For lovers of vintage scandal although there have been better years.

Don A. Keister is a professor emeritus of English at the University of Akron.