| THE LIFE OF DAVID BELASCO—VOLUME TWO |
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| | PAGE |
| [“Under Two Flags.”—Blanche Bates the Rising Star] | [1] |
| [Belasco and David Warfield:—Their First Meeting] | [6] |
| [Warfield and “The Auctioneer”] | [11] |
| [In the Grip of the Octopus.—Ancient Methods in Modern Business] | [16] |
| [Testimony under Oath.—Belasco versus Erlanger] | [20] |
| [Law versus Justice] | [23] |
| [A Faithful Friend:—Warfield for Belasco.—The End of “The Auctioneer”] | [24] |
| [Temperamental Sympathy.—Early Reading: “The Low Sun Makes the Color”] | [28] |
| [Genesis of Belasco’s Du Barry.—Character of the Historic Original] | [31] |
| [A Fanciful Fabric.—“Du Barry” First Produced] | [34] |
| [Richepin and the “Du Barry” Lawsuit] | [42] |
| [A Gracious Tribute.—“Remember That We Loved You”] | [45] |
| [The Theatric Richmond “Looks Proudly o’er the Crown”] | [47] |
| [A Dangerous Accident.—Altering the Republic] | [52] |
| [The First Belasco Theatre] | [55] |
| [“After Thirty Years of Labor.”—Belasco in His Own Theatre:—The Opening Night] | [60] |
| [The First Programme] | [62] |
| [A Stupid Disparagement.—Inception of “The Darling of the Gods”] | [67] |
| [The Play and the Performance of “The Darling of the Gods”] | [73] |
| [The Creation of Dramatic Effects.—Difficulties with the River of Souls] | [82] |
| [An Operatic Project.—Petty Persecutions.—An Arrest for Libel] | [85] |
| [Second Season at the Belasco.—A Contemptible Outrage] | [91] |
| [Henrietta Crosman and “Sweet Kitty Bellairs”] | [94] |
| [Side-light and Commentary on “Sweet Kitty”] | [103] |
| [A Strenuous Year] | [109] |
| [Warfield in “The Music Master.”—An Animated Speech] | [111] |
| [Concerning Warfield, Jefferson, the Elder Sothern and the “One Part” Custom.—An Amazing Record] | [120] |
| [A Sheaf of Old Letters: In the Matter of the Theatrical Syndicate] | [126] |
| [Methods of Collaboration] | [132] |
| [Mrs. Carter and the Tragedy of “Adrea”] | [136] |
| BELASCO AND THE THEATRICAL SYNDICATE |
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| [Justice and Theatrical Achievement] | [150] |
| [Belasco’s Unique Service to the Theatre] | [151] |
| [What Are We Discussing?] | [153] |
| [The Syndicate-Incubus Defined] | [154] |
| [Specious Pretensions to Justify the Incubus] | [155] |
| [Tendency to Combination in Modern Business] | [157] |
| [Causes of Theatrical Progress] | [158] |
| [The Right Principle] | [161] |
| [The Obligation of Intellect] | [162] |
| [“Those Shall Take Who Have the Power”] | [167] |
| [Divergent Views of the Syndicate: Grounds for Reasonable Belief] | [170] |
| [Converting Convention Hall:—“Adrea” in Washington] | [177] |
| [Exit Mrs. Carter] | [184] |
| [Significant Messages] | [186] |
| [Various Letters and Incidents of 1905] | [188] |
| [Tribute to Irving] | [194] |
| [Blanche Bates and “The Girl of the Golden West”] | [195] |
| [A Thrilling Story—And a True One] | [200] |
| [A Masterpiece of Stagecraft: The Storm in“The Girl of the Golden West”] | [203] |
| [The Parting of Blanche Bates and Belasco.—“The Fighting Hope” and “Nobody’s Widow”] | [206] |
| [A Great Night.—Belasco at the Metropolitan.—A Generous Acknowledgment] | [211] |
| [Belasco and the Messrs. Shubert] | [216] |
| [The Advent of Frances Starr.—Belasco’s “The Rose of the Rancho”] | [219] |
| [A New Project:—The Second Belasco Theatre] | [232] |
| [In the Matter of Stage Lighting] | [242] |
| [Opening of Belasco’s Stuyvesant Theatre:—“A Grand Army Man”] | [247] |
| [A Defeated Plan: “The Passing of the Third Floor Back”] | [255] |
| [“The Warrens of Virginia”] | [258] |
| [“The Easiest Way”] | [265] |
| [“Westward, Ho!”—The Syndicate Surrenders.—Incidents of 1909] | [269] |
| [The Season of 1909-’10: “Is Matrimony a Failure?”—“The Lily”—And “Just a Wife”] | [279] |
| [A Change of Names.—The Farce of “The Concert”] | [287] |
| [Loss and Grief.—“No Man Bears Sorrow Better”] | [293] |
| [A Drama of Spiritualism] | [298] |
| [Belasco’s “The Return of Peter Grimm”] | [299] |
| [Concerning the Eunuchs of Criticasterism] | [304] |
| [“The Woman”—And Mr. Abraham Goldknopf] | [306] |
| BELASCO AND PLAGIARISM |
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| [“Folly Loves the Martyrdom of Fame”] | [310] |
| [“The Trick Applied”] | [312] |
| [An Ancient Usage] | [313] |
| [Charles Reade on Plagiarism] | [315] |
| [“For the Defendant”] | [318] |
| [Concerning Benefits—Remembered and Forgot] | [324] |
| The Dramatic Works of David Belasco |
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| [Juvenile Efforts] | [327] |
| [Written Before 1882-’83 (Belasco’s New York Career Began in September, 1882)] | [328] |
| [Written Subsequent to 1882-’83] | [329] |
| [Plays as yet Unacted] | [332] |
| [Belasco as a Dramatist:—A Fragment] | [332] |
| [The Goldknopf Trial—A Unique Demonstration] | [336] |
| [A Drama of Psychology:—“The Case of Becky”] | [343] |
| [“A Good Little Devil”] | [348] |
| [“The Secret”] | [350] |
| [“Marie-Odile”] | [356] |
| [Reconciliation with Charles Frohman—And Joint Presentment of “A Celebrated Case”] | [361] |
| [Lenore Ulric.—And “The Heart of Wetona”] | [366] |
| VARIOUS PRODUCTIONS—MISCELLANEOUS RECORD: |
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| [“What’s Wrong.”—“The Vanishing Bride.”—“The Love Thought.”—“Alias.”] | [373] |
| [“The Governor’s Lady”] | [377] |
| [“Years of Discretion”] | [381] |
| [“The Temperamental Journey”] | [386] |
| [A Revival of the “Auctioneer”] | [386] |
| [A Maniac’s Play—“The Man Inside”] | [387] |
| [Belasco in Chinatown] | [394] |
| [An Admonition to Stage Aspirants] | [398] |
| [“The Phantom Rival”] | [402] |
| [“The Boomerang”] | [406] |
| [“Seven Chances”] | [411] |
| [“The Little Lady in Blue.”—The Last Play Ever Seen by William Winter] | [413] |
| [“The Very Minute”—A Memorandum] | [416] |
| [Summary] | [418] |
| [A Great Shakespearean Project] | [441] |
| [Concerning Sarah Bernhardt] | [448] |
| [Brief Extracts from Miscellaneous Correspondence] | [452] |
| APPENDIX (BY J. W.) |
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| [“Van Der Decken”] | [459] |
| [“Polly with a Past”] | [462] |
| [“Tiger Rose”] | [465] |
| [Chronology of the Life of David Belasco (W. W.)] | [473] |
| [Index] | [543] |