DAVID BELASCO
“If he come not, then the play is marred!”
—Shakespeare
From a portrait by the Misses Selby, New York.
Author’s Collection.
THE LIFE
OF
DAVID BELASCO
BY
WILLIAM WINTER
(1836-1917)
“He, being dead, yet speaketh.”
VOLUME ONE
New York
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1918
Copyright, 1918, by
JEFFERSON WINTER
All Rights Reserved
TO
THE MEMORY OF
REINA MARTIN BELASCO
This Memoir of Her Son
DAVID BELASCO
Actor, Dramatist, and Manager,
Whom She Dearly Loved
And by Whom She Was Idolized,
Is Reverently Dedicated
By the Stranger Who Has Written It,
Hoping Thereby to Honor and Commemorate
Genius, Courage, Industry, Enterprise, and Energy,
Exemplified in a Useful and Beneficent Life,
In the Service of
The Theatre