_May Blossom_ Georgia Cayvan. _Tom Blossom_ Benjamin Maginley. _Steve Harland_ Joseph Wheelock, Sr. _Richard Ashcroft_ Walden Ramsay. _Unca Bartlett_ William J. LeMoyne. _Owen Hathaway_ Thomas Whiffen. _Captain Drummond_ Henry Talbot. _Yank_ Master Tommy Russell. _Lulu_ Little Belle. _Deborah_ Mrs. Thomas Whiffen. _Hank Bluster_ King Hedley. _Hiram Sloane_ Joseph Frankau. _Epe_ I. N. Long. _Millie_ Etta Hawkins. _Little May_ Carrie Elbert. Whiffen was succeeded, as _Hathaway_, in this company, by De Wolf Hopper,--one of the few genuine and intrinsically humorous comedians on our Stage to-day. FIRST VISIT TO ENGLAND.--“CALLED BACK.” In the summer of 1884 Belasco was sent to London by his employers in order that he might see a performance of a play entitled “Called Back,”--founded on the novel of that name by Hugh Conway,--which those managers had bought for representation in America. He sailed aboard the Alaska, on July 5, making his first voyage across the Atlantic, and it was then our personal acquaintance began,--as I chanced to be a passenger aboard the same ship. He was not, I remember, a good sailor, and for several days he remained in seclusion, but before the end of the voyage we met and had a pleasant conversation, and I found him then, as I have found him since, a singularly original and interesting character and a genial companion. He said that his stay in England would be brief, as indeed it was, for having, on arrival in London, witnessed a representation of “Called Back,” then being acted at the Haymarket Theatre by Beerbohm-Tree and his dramatic company, he came back to New York on the return voyage of the same ship that had carried him over. His task,--which was duly performed,--was to prepare “Called Back” for presentment at the Madison Square, but as “May Blossom” continued to be prosperous there it was decided not to interrupt its successful run, but to produce the new play at another theatre, and that play, accordingly, was brought out, September 1, 1884, under Belasco’s direction, at the Fifth Avenue Theatre, then managed by John Stetson,--the leading parts in it being acted by Robert B. Mantell and Jessie Millward. The work done by Belasco in connection with “Called Back” was, practically, the last that he ever did for the Mallorys. In London the play had been so fashioned that _Paolo Macari_ was the star part, acted by Beerbohm-Tree. Belasco’s task, as adapter, was that of devising minor modifications rendering the play better suited to presentment before American audiences: it was desired that the part of _Gilbert Vaughan_