  CONTENTS The Life of David Belasco Volume One EARLY PROCLIVITY FOR THE THEATRE. BELASCO'S EARLIEST ASSOCIATIONS WITH THE THEATRE IN SAN FRANCISCO AN EARLY FRIEND. W. H. SEDLEY-SMITH. BELASCO'S THEATRICAL NOVITIATE. EMULATION OF WALTER MONTGOMERY. A ROMANTIC COURTSHIP. MARRIAGE. THEATRICAL LIFE IN VIRGINIA CITY. DION BOUCICAULT AND KATHARINE RODGERS. BALDWIN'S ACADEMY AND BARRY SULLIVAN. BELASCO AND "THE EGYPTIAN MYSTERY." A REMINISCENCE OF HELENA MODJESKA. STROLLING AD INTERIM . BELASCO AS "THE FIRST OLD WOMAN." "OLIVIA" AND "PROOF POSITIVE." BELASCO'S VERSION OF "NOT GUILTY." WITHDRAWAL FROM THE BALDWIN. "THE LONE PINE" AND DENMAN THOMPSON. "THE PASSION PLAY" IN NEW YORK. DETRACTION OF BELASCO. EARLY CALIFORNIA INFLUENCES. BELASCO'S REPERTORY AS AN ACTOR. BELASCO'S "THE STORY OF MY LIFE." ROSE COGHLAN AND "THE MOONLIGHT MARRIAGE." "L'ASSOMMOIR" AND A DOUBLE-BARRELLED BENEFIT. FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO CHICAGO. BELASCO'S RECOLLECTIONS OF ADELAIDE NEILSON. WANING FORTUNES AT THE BALDWIN. AN OLD ACQUAINTANCE, JOHN T. MALONE. A STERLING ACTOR AND AN INTERESTING ESTIMATE: WILLIAM E. SHERIDAN. LAURA DON. AN UNFULFILLED AMBITION. NEW YORK AGAIN. "LA BELLE RUSSE" AT WALLACK'S. AN OPINION BY BRONSON HOWARD. WALLACK IN THE THIRTIETH STREET HOUSE. BELASCO AND HIS "THE CURSE OF CAIN." BELASCO AND GUSTAVE FROHMAN. THEY REVIVE "THE OCTOROON." FIRST MEETING WITH CHARLES FROHMAN. A SECOND VENTURE IN CHICAGO. THE LAST OF "AMERICAN BORN." BELASCO AT THE MADISON SQUARE. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND. "CALLED BACK." CHANGES AT THE MADISON SQUARE. A LABORIOUS INTERLUDE. LYCEUM THEATRE. AN EXTRAORDINARY COMPANY AND A SUMMER SEASON IN SAN FRANCISCO. "BARON RUDOLPH" AND GEORGE S. KNIGHT. "LORD CHUMLEY" AND E. H. SOTHERN. EPISODE OF "THE PRINCE AND THE PAUPER." RETIREMENT FROM THE LYCEUM THEATRE. CONFEDERATION WITH CHARLES FROHMAN. PROCTOR'S TWENTY-THIRD STREET THEATRE. "THE UGLY DUCKLING." MRS. CARTER'S DEBUT. "MISS HELYETT" AND MRS. CARTER. A BAFFLED ENTERPRISE IN CHICAGO. STORY AND PRODUCTION OF "THE HEART OF MARYLAND." ITS GREAT SUCCESS. "THE FIRST BORN." A SUCCESS AND A FAILURE. BELASCO'S SECOND ENGLISH VENTURE. "THE HEART OF MARYLAND" IN LONDON. "ZAZA," AND THE ETHICAL QUESTION. PRODUCTION, AND CONTENTS, OF "ZAZA." DEATH OF BELASCO'S MOTHER. "CAN THE DEAD COME BACK?" A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. BLANCHE BATES AND "NAUGHTY ANTHONY." VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DRAMATISTS. "WITH SPEED FOR ENGLAND." ANOTHER SUCCESS IN LONDON. "MADAME BUTTERFLY" AS AN OPERA. A PROPOSAL BY LADY VALERIE MEUX.
THE LIFE OF THE RECENT Other Days., Being Chronicles and Memories of The Stage (1908). Old Friends., Being Literary Recollections of Other Days (1909). Poems (Definitive Edition—1909). Life and Art of Richard Mansfield (Two Volumes—1910). Shakespeare’s England (Revised and Augmented—1910). Gray Days and Gold (Revised and Augmented—1911). Over the Border (Scotch Companion to Above—1911). Shakespeare on the Stage,—First Series: 1911. I. “Shakespeare Spells Ruin.” II. King Richard III. III. The Merchant of Venice. IV. Othello. V. Hamlet. VI. Macbeth. VII. King Henry VIII. Shakespeare on the Stage,—Second Series: 1915. I. Twelfth Night. II. Romeo and Juliet. III. As You Like It. IV. King Lear. V. The Taming of the Shrew. VI. Julius CÆsar. Shakespeare on the Stage,—Third Series: 1916. I. Cymbeline. II. Love’s Labor’s Lost. III. Coriolanus. IV. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. V. King Henry IV.,—First and Second Parts. VI. The Merry Wives of Windsor. VII. Antony and Cleopatra. VIII. King John. Lives of the Players:—I. Tyrone Power (1912). The Wallet of Time, Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre (Two Volumes—1913). Vagrant Memories, Being Further Recollections of Other Days (1915). The Life of David Belasco (Two Volumes—1918). [Image unavailable.] DAVID BELASCO “If he come not, then the play is marred!” —Shakespeare From a portrait by the Misses Selby, New York. THE LIFE |
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