On July 8 a revival was effected at the Baldwin of Boucicault’s “The Octoroon,” “re-touched and re-arranged” by Belasco. This, and a double bill, comprising Byron’s “Dearer Than Life” and “The Post of Honor,”--brought out on August 5,--filled the summer season, and on September 2 Belasco’s play in five acts entitled “Olivia,”--the first dramatization of Goldsmith’s “The Vicar of Wakefield” to be acted in California,--was produced with the following notable cast: _Dr. Primrose_ A. D. Bradley. _Squire Thornhill_ Lewis Morrison. _Mr. Burchell_ James O’Neill. _Moses_ William Seymour. _George_ Forrest Robinson. _Jenkinson_ C. B. Bishop. _Olivia_ Rose Wood. _Sophia_ Jean Burnside. _Mrs. Primrose_ Mrs. Farren. _Arabella Wilmot_ Belle Chapman. Belasco’s dramatic epitome adhered to Goldsmith’s story as closely as is feasible for stage purposes; it was an effective play, it was admirably set upon the stage and acted, and it gained substantial success. “Those were strenuous times for me,” he writes; “every one was thrusting duties on me then which, as I was always a glutton for work, I grasped as opportunities. One lesson I learned at the Baldwin which I have never forgotten--that one of the greatest mistakes a man can make is the mistake of permitting anybody else to do his work for him. I wrote ’Olivia’ between times, as it were, and I was genuinely surprised by its success.” After the run of “Olivia” J. C. Williamson and his wife, “Maggie” Moore, came to the Baldwin,--opening in “Struck Oil,”--and Belasco, while directing the stage for them, completed an alteration of Wills’ “A Woman of the People,”--which was brought forth October 14,--and a play, made at the request of Rose Wood, which he called “Proof Positive,” based on an old melodrama. This was produced on October 28, and in it James O’Neill gained a notable success in the character of an eccentric, semi-comic _Jew_. BELASCO’S VERSION OF “NOT GUILTY.”