_Captain Dudley Brand_ Osmond Tearle. _Sir Philip Calthorpe_ Gerald Eyre. _Monroe Quilton, Esq._ John W. Jennings. _Rignold Henderson_ (Supt. of Police) E. H. Holden. _Roberts_ J. McCormack. _Barton_ Edgar Wilton. _Beatrice Glandore_ (_Geraldine_) Jeffreys-Lewis. _Lady Elizabeth Calthorpe_ Jean Clara Walters. _Elise_ Edith Livingston. _Little Beatrice_ Maude Adams. “THE STRANGLERS OF PARIS.” “La Belle Russe” received its final performance at the Baldwin Theatre on Saturday evening, July 30. On August 1 “Adolph Challet” was produced there, under Belasco’s direction, and on August 8 a revival of “Diplomacy” was effected, Tearle acting _Henry Beauclerc_, Gerald Eyre _Julian_, and Miss Jeffreys-Lewis the _Countess Zicka_. It had been intended to divide the week between “Diplomacy” and “Camille,” but “to my delight,” Belasco said, “the former was strong enough to fill the whole week and I could give all the time to final preparation of my new play.” That new play was a dramatic epitome of “The Stranglers of Paris” (“Les Étrangleurs de Paris”), by Adolphe Belot, for the production of which much effort had already been made. It was modestly announced by Maguire (who, I surmise, did not thereby greatly distress Belasco) as “The great dramatic event of the nineteenth century,” and it was brought out on August 15. Belasco’s name was not made known as that of the adapter. This play is, in fact, an extravagant and, in some respects, a repulsive sensation melodrama. The story relates some of the experiences of an intellectual pervert named _Jagon_, a huge hunchback, of remarkable muscular strength, especially in the digits, resident in Paris, and gaining a livelihood for himself and a cherished daughter (whom he keeps in ignorance of her actual relationship to himself) by the gentle art of strangling persons in order to rob them. A specially barbarous murder is committed by _Jagon_ and an accomplice named _Lorenz_,--an ex-convict who has ingratiated himself with the daughter, _Mathilde_, and who marries her. _Jagon_ and an innocent man, _Blanchard_, are arrested, tried for this crime, and sentenced to transportation to New Caledonia. The convict-ship bearing them to that destination is wrecked and they escape together upon a raft and return to Paris. _Mathilde_, having discovered the criminality of her husband, frees her mind on that subject with such pungency that _Lorenz_ is moved to practise upon her the professional dexterity learned from her revered father and promptly chokes her to death. _Jagon_ arrives at this juncture, attended by police officers, denounces _Lorenz_ to them as his actual accomplice in the crime for which _Blanchard_ has been convicted with him, and then, in the manner of _Robert Macaire_ in somewhat