“If the play gets over, the great measure of the success will be yours. If it fails, the fault will be with the material which came to you.
“Whatever the issue is, I want now to thank you for your many personal courtesies, for your enthusiasm and your friendship. Hereafter, when some would-be author ‘hits the ceiling’ at some change you suggest in his ’script, please have him get me on the telephone and I will cheerfully tell him how many kinds of a d—— fool he is not to know a master touch and not to appreciate the Master’s interest.
“May you be preserved to the Theatre for a long, long time.
“Affectionately,
“George Scarborough.”
The scope and variety of his labor as an author are impressively signified in the following partial list of his writings:
THE DRAMATIC WORKS OF DAVID BELASCO.
(Note.—The dates given in the following table refer to the years in which the plays specified were written,—and, therefore, in some instances, they differ from the dates given in Chronology, and elsewhere, which refer to presentation of the plays.)
JUVENILE EFFORTS.
“Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden.”
“Aladdin and the Wonderful Lamp.”