exacting parts,--such as _Bianca_, in “Fazio”; _Mrs. Haller_, in “The Stranger”; _Margaret Elmore_, in “Love’s Sacrifice”; _Griseldis_, and _Adrienne Lecouvreur_. She was the primary _Norma_, in Epes Sargent’s “Priestess,” which was first acted in Boston, and she was the primary _Leonor_, in George Henry Boker’s tragedy of “Leonor de Guzman,” first produced at the original Broadway Theatre, New York, April 25, 1854. Whatever she did was earnestly done. Her soul was in her art, and she never permitted anything to degrade it. A marriage contracted (1855) with Dr. Arthur Hayne,--son of Robert Young Hayne, United States Senator from South Carolina, whose semi-seditious advocacy of “State Rights” prompted Daniel Webster’s great oration in the Senate (1830),--resulted unhappily, somewhat embittering her mind and impairing the bloom of her artistic style. She obtained a divorce and (1866) became the wife of James Cooper. She died suddenly, in childbirth, March 6, 1868. At her funeral, two days later, at Christ Church, Fifth Avenue and Thirty-first Street, New York, the service was performed by Rev. Ferdinand Cartwright Ewer (1826-1883), a noted Episcopalian ritualist, who in early life had been a dramatic critic,--one of competent intelligence, good judgment, and considerate candor,--associated with the newspaper press of San Francisco, had known her in the season of her California triumphs, and well knew her worth both as actress and woman. REMOVAL TO SAN FRANCISCO. Young David Belasco was frequently utilized for infantile and juvenile parts at the Victoria Theatre. In 1864, when Charles Kean, in his farewell “tour round the world,” filled a short engagement there, the lad appeared as the little _Duke of York_, in “King Richard III.” His age was then eleven, but he was diminutive and therefore he suited that part. During Kean’s engagement he also appeared as a super in “Pauline.” About 1865 Humphrey Belasco, his fortunes not improving as he had hoped, removed his family from Victoria and established residence in San Francisco, where he opened a fruit [Illustration: From photographs by Brady. The Albert Davis Collection. “THE KEANS” CHARLES JOHN KEAN ELLEN TREE, MRS. KEAN (1811-1868) (1805-1880) Taken during their last American tour, 1864-’65, soon after Belasco appeared with them in “King Richard III”]