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Sister Loretta Linsalatta , from the music department of Little Flower High School , showed off a toy bank made by her aunt , who was a welder in World War II. Elizabeth McLean did her show-and-tell with a piece of mirror from the Frank Furness-designed building on Locust Street owned by the Library Company of Philadelphia , where she 's on the board . We may even take a weekend jaunt to Dublin or Paris . In it , Alexander played a middle-class English tourist with an uncanny resemblance to the embattled King of Ruritania ; just put the middle-class Englishman in the right clothes , and he can play the part of a King to perfection . We hear a parodic echo of plays like The Second Mrs Tanqueray when Jack Worthing ( played by Alexander ) , in the final act of The Importance of Being Earnest , says of Miss Prism ( who he mistakenly believes to be his long-lost and unmarried mother ) , " who has the right to cast a stone against one who has suffered ? Washington , D.C. - based Heritage Preservation , countered many of these self-criticisms . Anthony Trollope labeled him " Mr. Popular Sentiment , " ; while George Eliot and Henry James both devised their conceptions of plot , character , and artistic purpose from careful - - and highly critical - - study of Dickens ' work . One of Alexander 's most popular roles - - in a dramatization of the popular novel , The Prisoner of Zenda - - is emblematic of the actor 's theatrical status as a gentleman . Our study will include literary work written in Irish ( we 'll read it in translation ) as well as the work of expatriated writers such as Oscar Wilde , the Dublin-born aesthete who found fame - - and , finally , shame - - writing for the London stage , and James Joyce , whose career depended on his decision to abandon Ireland for the Continent in 1904 . Actors employed by George Alexander at the St. James 's were contractually required to dress appropriately " off-stage as well as - on , " and could be fired if spotted walking in Picadilly during the day in anything less than a well-tailored morning coat . No wonder Alexander insisted that his actors dress well on-stage and - off : only by their ability to wear perfectly-tailored clothes and a perfectly-chosen buttonhole could actors convince audiences that they were , in manners , the gentlemen they pretended to play . Which brinngs us back to the opening night of The Importance of Being Earnest at the St. James 's Theatre on Valentine 's Day , 1895 , and the lily of the valley in Oscar Wilde 's lapel . George Alexander was typical of his generation of actors : his father was in dry goods , and he dropped out of school when he was fifteen to be a clerk in a London office , joined a part-time amateur dramatic society , and then went into acting professionally . Anthony Trollope labeled him " Mr. Popular Sentiment , " while George Eliot and Henry James both devised their conceptions of plot , character , and artistic purpose from careful - - and highly critical - - study of Dickens ' work .