THE FIRST PROGRAMME.
The following is the programme, in detail, of the first performance given in Belasco’s Theatre on what was, in many ways, the happiest and proudest night of all his life:
BELASCO THEATRE
BROADWAY AND FORTY-SECOND STREET
Under the Sole Management of David Belasco
Evenings at 8 precisely Matinees Saturdays at 2
D A V I D B E L A S C O
PRESENTS
M r s . L e s l i e C a r t e r
IN HIS NEW PLAY
“DU BARRY”
“Not the great historical events, but the personal incidents that call up single, sharp pictures of some human being in its pang or struggle, reach us more nearly.”—Oliver Wendell Holmes.
CAST
| King Louis the Fifteenth of France | C. A. Stevenson. | |
| Comte Jean du Barry, eventually brother-in-law of La du Barry | Campbell Gollan. | |
| Comte Guillaume du Barry, his brother | Beresford Webb. | |
| Duc de Brissac, Capt. of King’s Guard | Henry Weaver, Sr. | |
| Cossé-Brissac, his son (of the King’s Guard), known as “Cossé” | Hamilton Revelle. | |
| The Papal Nuncio | H. R. Roberts. | |
| Duc de Richelieu, Marshal of France | Under King Louis | Geo. Barnum. |
| Maupeou, Lord Chancellor | the | C. P. Flockton. |
| Terray, Minister of Finance | Fifteenth | H. G. Carlton. |
| Duc D’Aiguillon | Leonard Cooper. | |
| Denys, porter at the milliner shop | Claude Gillingwater. | |
| Lebel, confidential valet to His Majesty | Herbert Millward. | |
| M. Labille, proprietor of the milliner shop | Gilmore Scott. | |
| Vaubernier, father of Jeannette | Charles Campbell. | |
| Scarlo, one of “La du Barry’s” Nubian servants | J. D. Jones. | |
| Zamore, a plaything of “La du Barry’s” | Master Sams. | |
| Flute Player | A. Joly. | |
| Valroy | Of the | Douglas J. Wood. |
| D’Allaire | King’s | Louis Myll. |
| De Courcel | Guard | Harold Howard. |
| La Garde | Two Tavern | W. T. Bune. |
| Fontenelle | Roysterers | Thomas Boone. |
| Benard, one of the “Hundred Swiss” | Warren Deven. | |
| Citizen Grieve, of the Committee of Public Safety | Gaston Mervale. | |
| Marac, one of the Sans-Culottes | James Sargeant. | |
| Denisot, Judge of the Revolutionary Court | H. G. Carlton. | |
| Tavernier, clerk of the court | John Ingram. | |
| Gomard | Charles Hayne. | |
| Hortense, Manageress for Labille the milliner | Eleanor Carey. | |
| Lolotte | Nina Lyn. | |
| Manon | Girls | Florence St. Leonard. |
| Julie | at the | Corah Adams. |
| Leonie | Milliner’s | Blanche Sherwood. |
| Nichette | Shop | Ann Archer. |
| Juliette | May Lyn. | |
| Marquise du Quesnoy, known as “La Gourdan,” keeper of a gambling house | Blanche Rice. | |
| Sophie Arnauld, queen of the opera | Miss Robertson. | |
| The Gypsy Hag, a fortune-teller | C. P. Flockton. | |
| Mlle. Le Grand | Dancers from the | Ruth Dennis. |
| Mlle. Guimard | Grand Opera | Eleanor Stuart. |
| Mme. La Dauphine—Marie Antoinette at sixteen | Helen Hale. | |
| Marquise de Crenay | Helen Robertson. | |
| Duchesse D’Aiguillon | Ladies | Miss Lyn. |
| Princesse Alixe | of | Miss Leonard. |
| Duchesse de Choisy | King Louis | Louise Morewin. |
| Marquise de Langers | Court | May Montford. |
| Comtesse de Marsen | Grace Van Benthuysen. | |
| Sophie, a maid | Irma Perry. | |
| Rosalie, of the Concièrgerie | Helen Robertson. | |
| Cerisette | Julie Lindsey. | |
| AND | ||
| JEANNETTE VAUBERNIER, afterwards La du Barry | MRS. LESLIE CARTER. | |