“Maum Cre,” which held the stage for one week and in which Belasco acted the small part of _Bloater_. On August 25, the night before his wedding, he played with Murphy as _Bob Rackett_, in “Help,” and on September 1 as _Baldwin_, in “Ireland and America.” Murphy’s engagement ended September 7. The next night Frederick Lyster made his first appearance at Shiels’ (of which A. M. Gray had become “sole proprietor”) in “The Rising Moon,” and I believe that Belasco played in it, though I have not found a record of his doing so. On September 10 Laura Alberta was the star, in “Out at Sea,” Belasco playing with her as _Harvey_. During the next six weeks he acted at Shiels’--personating _Sambo_, in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin,” and _Major Hershner_, in “Twice Saved; or, Bertha the Midget,” with Miss Alberta; _Spada_, in “The Woman in Red,” with Fanny Cathcart, and _Darley_, in “Dark Deeds,” with Miss Cathcart and George Darrell. Other plays presented at Shiels’ during the period indicated include “More Blunders Than One,” “Little Katy; or, The Hot Corn Girl,” “The Stage Struck Chamber-Maid,” “Man and Wife” (Darrell’s version), “The Mexican Tigress,” and “Evenings at Home.” It is probable that Belasco appeared in all or most of those plays, but I have not been able to find programmes or other records showing that he did so. On October 18 he participated in a benefit for James Dunbar at Gray’s Opera House (that name was first used on October 3), playing _Mons. Voyage_, in the Third Act of “Ireland As It Was.” THEATRICAL LIFE IN VIRGINIA CITY.