=BELASCO, DAVID= (American theatrical manager, playwright, stage manager, actor, dramatist: 1853-19--): qualities of--ancestry and parentage, 1; parents go to Calif.--birth of--and removed to Victoria, B. C., 2; early influences affecting--education of--early years in Roman Catholic monastery, 4; residence of, in monastery--abiding effect of R. C. influence on--runs away--joins travelling circus--befriended by a clown, 5; reclaimed by father and taken home--theatrical proclivity of--and “first appearance” of on stage, 6; his memory of appearing with Julia Dean--his recollections of early actors characterized, 7; frequent juvenile employment of--appears in “K. R. III.,” with C. Kean and E. Tree--removal of, to San Francisco, 10; a pupil at the Lincoln Grammar School, S. F.--his teachers--his talent for declamation--recitations by, 11; “mascot” of the Victoria Fire Department--pupil at Fourth Street School, S. F.--wins Gold Medal in Tragedy--early reading--first places of residence in S. F., 12; first play by, date of, question about, etc.--boyhood custom of, as writer--recollection of, _re_ his play, “The Roll of the Drum,” 13; passion of, for stage--letter to, from boyhood friend--recitations of, in boyhood--also early performances participated in by, 14; recitation by, before Queen Emma of the Hawaiian Islands--removed with parents from Victoria--filial devotion of--and early propensity of, 15; industry of, in childhood--public recitations--assists parents, 16; hard early experience of--advancement--reading and recreation in boyhood, 17; effect of McCullough’s recitation of “The Little Hero” on--becomes a stowaway--his story of his adventures as, 17, _et seq._; leaves school--marriage of, 19; early record and experience of, as actor, reciter, etc.--payment of (period 1871-1879), 20; bohemian adventures of, related to author--his mother’s name for, and opinion about, 21; miscellaneous knowledge accumulated by--tangled chronology of his early life--his “The Story of My Life” examined and estimated by author, 22, _et seq._; incorrect recollections by, rectified, 23; time, place, etc., of his first formal appearance on stage established, 24; his first part--billed as “Walter Kingsley” when making first appearance--reason for taking, and for dropping, that name--form of his name in early playbills--childhood appearances of, 25; appears with C. Kean--early appearances as super, reciter, etc.--appears with Mme. Methua-Scheller (1869) in “Under the Gas-Light”--and with J. Proctor in “The Jibbenainosay”--Proctor’s reason for employing him, 26; appears in Prof. Hager’s “The Great Republic”--his parts in--appears in amateur performances at Platt’s Hall, S. F.--early association with J. O. Barrows, 27;