especially when, as in “Men and Women,” justice is seen to be done, all round. One singular “effect” in the central scene of this play was caused by a glimmer of simulated moonlight through a stained glass window, showing a representation of the Christ (rather a surprising object of art to occur in the private library of a Jew, however liberal), after a fervid expression, by _Israel Cohen_, of the need of charity and forbearance. The wise counsel of the old Oxford Professor (cited and approved by Belasco’s mentor, Boucicault, and sometimes attributed to him), that when you particularly admire any special passage in anything you have written you had better cut it out, might well have been mentioned by Belasco for the benefit of his collaborator. There are several passages of “fine writing” in “Men and Women,” which show De Mille to disadvantage. The play will not bear close analysis: it was artificially constructed around the situation at the crisis of the bank’s affairs; but it admirably answered the purpose for which it was written, and it had 203 consecutive performances, at the Twenty-third Street Theatre. This was the cast: _Israel Cohen_ Frederic de Belleville. _William Prescott_ William Morris. _Edwin Seabury_ Orrin Johnson. _Mr. Pendleton_ Charles Leslie Allen. _Mr. Reynolds_ W. H. Tilliard. _Mr. Bergman_ Arthur Hayden. _Mr. Wayne_ Edgar Mackey. _Calvin Stedman_ R. A. Roberts. _Lyman H. Webb_ Henry Talbot. _Stephen Rodman_ Frank Mordaunt. _Col. Zachary T. Kip_ M. A. Kennedy. _Dr. “Dick” Armstrong_ T. C. Valentine. _Sam Delafield_ J. C. Buckstone. _Arnold Kirke_ Emmett Corrigan. _Crawford_ E. J. McCullough. _District Messenger No. 81_ Master Louis Haines. _Roberts_ A. R. Newtown. _John_ Richard Marlow. _Agnes Rodman_ Sydney Armstrong. _Dora_ Maude Adams. _Mrs. Kate Delafield_ Odette Tyler. _Margery Knox_ Etta Hawkins. _Mrs. Jane Preston_ Annie Adams. _Mrs. Kirke_ Lillian Chantore. _Lucy_ Winona Shannon. _Julia_ Gladys Eurelle.