_General Kennion_ Frank Mordaunt. _Major Burleigh_ Frank Thompson. _Lieut. Edgar Hawksworth_ William Morris. _Lieut. Morton Parlow_ Nelson Wheatcroft. _Dicks_ Thomas Oberle. _Orderly McGlynn_ James O. Barrows. _Private Jones_ Orrin Johnson. _Dr. Arthur Penwick_ Cyril Scott. _Dick Burleigh_ Master “Wallie” Eddinger. _Andy Jackson_ Joseph Adelman. _John Ladru, or Scar-Brow_ Theodore Roberts. _Fell-An-Ox_ Frank Lathrop. _Silent Tongue_ Arthur Hayden. _Kate Kennion_ Sydney Armstrong. _Lucy Hawksworth_ Odette Tyler. _Wilber’s Ann_ Edna Wallace. _Fawn Afraid_ Katharine Florence. After the first week Stella Teuton replaced Odette Tyler as _Lucy Hawksworth_; and on March 27, 28 and (matinée) 29 Emmett Corrigan replaced Wheatcroft as _Lieutenant Parlow_. On March 29, at night, the play was acted with the following cast: _General Kennion_ Maclyn Arbuckle. _Major Burleigh_ Mart E. Heisey. _Lieut. Edgar Hawksworth_ Harold Russell. _Lieut. Morton Parlow_ Henry Herman. _Dicks_ G. E. Bryant. _Orderly McGlynn_ J. P. MacSweeney. _Private Jones_ Frank Dayton. _Dr. Arthur Penwick_ Harry Mills. _Dick Burleigh_ Master George Enos. _Andy Jackson_ T. S. Guise. _John Ladru, or Scar-Brow_ Harry G. Carleton. _Fell-An-Ox_ William Redstone. _Silent Tongue_ Arthur Hayden. _Kate Kennion_ Mrs. Berlan Gibbs. _Lucy Hawksworth_ Irene Everell. _Wilber’s Ann_ Lottie Altar. _Fawn Afraid_ Bijou Fernandez. The original company was conveyed to Chicago, and there, during the World’s Columbian Exposition in that city, it performed “The Girl I Left Behind Me” at the Schiller, now (1917) the Garrick, Theatre, for many weeks. THE VALUE OF SUGGESTION IN ART. In the stage history of this play there is a significant and important illustration of the vital principle in dramatic writing,--often recognized and expounded by Belasco, yet sometimes by him ignored,--of the value of _suggestion_ instead of _realism_ in creation of effect,--the device, that is, so well expressed by Wordsworth in the line “part _seen_, _imagined_ part.” Writing with regard to what he learned from dramatization, at first literal, afterward suggestive, of an incident witnessed by him during his wild Virginia City days,--the funeral of a poor, misled girl who died in a vile resort,--Belasco says: