BLANCHE BATES AND “NAUGHTY ANTHONY” 469 “MADAME BUTTERFLY” 476 “ZAZA” ABROAD 484 VIEWS OF THE FRENCH DRAMATISTS 485 “WITH SPEED FOR ENGLAND.”--ANOTHER SUCCESS IN LONDON 486 PUCCINI AND BELASCO 488 “MADAME BUTTERFLY” AS AN OPERA.--A PROPOSAL BY LADY VALERIE MEUX 489 INDEX 497 ILLUSTRATIONS. VOLUME ONE. _In Photogravure._ David Belasco Frontispiece TO FACE PAGE William Winter xxvi John McCullough 18 Cecilia Loverich, Mrs. David Belasco 44 David Belasco as _Robert Macaire_ 80 Edwin Booth as _Hamlet_ 94 David Belasco as _Marc Antony_, in “Julius Cæsar” 136 David Belasco as _Fagin_, in “Oliver Twist” 146 Lawrence Barrett as _Caius Cassius_, in “Julius Cæsar” 166 Joseph Jefferson as _Rip Van Winkle_ 176 Adelaide Neilson 214 David Belasco as _King Louis the Eleventh_ 226 David Belasco as _Uncle Tom_, in “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” 258 David Belasco as _Hamlet_ 294 _In Halftone._ The Infant Belasco and His Parents 2 Julia Dean (Hayne) 6 { Charles John Kean, } “The Keans” { Ellen Tree, Mrs. Kean } 10 Belasco’s Parents, Humphrey Abraham, and Reina Martin, Belasco, About 1865 22 William Henry Sedley-Smith 28 Mrs. Frank Mark Bates } Sallie Hinckley } 32 { Ella Chapman } The Chapman Sisters { Blanche Chapman } 36 Belasco, About 1873-’75 40 Joseph Murphy } 48 John Piper } Mrs. D. P. Bowers 52 Dion Boucicault 56 Katharine Rodgers 60