strength protecting weakness, stratagem defeating duplicity, and love triumphant over hate, pleased, as it always has pleased, and as it always will continue to please--“till all the seas run dry.” Although, intrinsically, not exceptional as a work of dramatic art, “The Rose of the Rancho” has positive and abundant felicity of theatrical merit, imparted by the skilful hand of Belasco, and the production of it was worthy of his brightest fame. This was the original cast of it: _Kearney_, of Washington Charles Richman. _Don Luis de la Torre_ A. Hamilton Revelle. _Padre Antonio_ Frank Losee. _Lieutenant Larkin_ William Elliott. _Kinkaid_ John W. Cope. _Rigsby_ Wayne Arey. _Sunol_ J. Harry Benrimo. _Tomaso_ Frank Westerton. _Ortega_ Norbert Cills. _Goya_ Candido Yllera. _Pico_ Fermin Ruiz. _Fra Mateo_ Frank de Felice. _A Gardener_ Richard S. Conover. _Salvador_ Gilmore Scott. _Pascual_ Salvatore Zito. _Benito_ Vincent de Pascale. _Estudilla_ Julio Grau. _Yorba_ Francesco Recchio. _Cadet_ Regino Lopez. _El Tecolero_ Virgilio Arriaza. _Bruno_ C. A. Burnett. _Manuel_ Leonardo Piza Lopez. _Señora Dona Petrona Castro_ Marta Melean. _Señora Kenton_ Grace Gayler Clark. _Juanita_, called _La Rosa del Rancho_ Frances Starr. _Trinidad_ Jane Cowl. _Beatriz_ Catherine Tower. _Carlota_ Atalanta Nicolaides. _Guadalupe_ Maria Davis. _Señora Alcantara_ Regina Weil. _Agrada_ Louise Coleman. _Kinkaid’s Ranchmen_, _Caballeros_, _Vaqueros_, _Musicos_, _Servants_, _Etc._ _Señoritas_, _Dueñas_, _the Child of the Dance_, _Etc._ Miss Starr, in her performance of _Juanita_, manifested impetuosity of temperament combined with charm of personality, and by her arch behavior as a coquette, together with the vigor and sparkle of her demeanor as a wounded, doubting, resentful, and angry young woman, gained and merited general admiration.--A significant thought as to expedition [Illustration: Photograph by Byron. Belasco’s Collection.