and demolish the furniture, be to act greatly, then Mrs. Carter’s _Zaza_ was a great piece of acting; not otherwise. Her popularity was unequivocal, and it constituted a triumph for Belasco even more remarkable than for her. This was the original cast of “Zaza,” at the Garrick Theatre, New York, January 9, 1899: _Bernard Dufrène_ Charles A. Stevenson. _Duc de Brissac_ Albert Bruning. _Cascart_ Mark Smith (Jr.). _Jacques Rigault_ Hugo Toland. _Chamblay, Jr_ Gilmore Scott. _Hector_ Lester Gruner. _Blac_ Harold Howard. _Brigard_ W. B. Murray. _Mounet-Pombla_ Gerard Anderson. _Joly_ Herbert Millward. _Carvallo Bros._ (_acrobats_) Leona and Master Bimbi. _Jabowski_ Walter Stuart. _Adolphe_ Lawrence Reeves. _Coachman_ Alfred Hollingsworth. _Criquet_ Edgar Hart. _Rosa Bonné_ Marie Bates. _Madame Dufrène_ Mabel Howard. _Divonne_ Lizzie DuRoy. _Lizette_ Emma Chase. _Toto_ Helen Thill. _Florianne_ Anne Sutherland. _Alice Morel_ Maude Winter. _Lolotte_ Marie Thill. _Juliette_ Eleanor Stuart. _Niniche_ Elizabeth Belknap. _Leonie_ Corah Adams. _Clairette_ Helma Horneman. _Adele_ Aurelia A. Granville. _Flower Girl_ Louisa Burnham. _Nathalie_ Helen Tracy. _Zaza_ Mrs. Leslie Carter. (Mem. When “Zaza” was revived, in 1905, a minor character called _Lisvon_ was added: it was played by Amelia G. Granville.) DEATH OF BELASCO’S MOTHER.--“CAN THE DEAD COME BACK?”--A STRANGE EXPERIENCE. The instant and immense popular success of “Zaza” was embittered for Belasco by close association with a loss and sorrow that time has not lightened,--the death of his beloved mother, which befell on January 11, 1899, at No. 174 Clara Street, San Francisco. During rehearsals of his play and its presentments in Washington Belasco, so he has told me, “had _felt_ that she was ill,” but had no thought that her condition was critical. Writing about her death, he gives the following interesting account of a strange experience: