as his child. _Balzamo_, learning the whereabouts of the girl and desirous of recovering custody of her, in order to utilize her as a subject, visits _Emerson_ and seeks to reëstablish his control over _Dorothy_, begun when she was a little child. The _Doctor_ is led to suspect the originative facts in “the case of _Becky_” which are unknown to him; a conflict of wits and powers ensues between him and _Balzamo_; the latter is, by a trick, subdued and thrown into hypnosis,--in which state he is compelled to confess the truth and is then deprived of his hypnotic power. Belasco, writing about this singular play--in which he presented Miss Frances Starr for more than two years--has recorded: “I had begun work on the manuscript of my play for Miss Starr called ‘Jennie’ when I received a letter from Mr. Locke about ‘After Many Years.’... It was rewritten and renamed ‘The Case of Becky,’ and in the writing of it we were guided by Dr. Morton Prince’s ‘The Dissociation of a Personality.’ I felt that in a hypnotic study of this kind I must not resort to the broad theatricalism of ‘Trilby’ or ‘Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.’ I was dealing with a dual personality, and I gave Miss Starr the arduous task of slipping from innocence into viciousness, in the presence of an audience, without resorting to any outward trickery. Those hypnotic scenes were written while the company was rehearsing on the stage.” It is interesting to note that the method prescribed for Miss Starr by Belasco, in acting _Dorothy_ and _Becky_, is the same which Henry Irving declared should be employed in acting _Jekyll_ and _Hyde_: Irving bought the English dramatic rights to Stevenson’s story about that dual character, intending to put his theory about impersonating it into practice, but he never did so.--This was the cast of “The Case of Becky”: _Dr. Emerson_ Albert Bruning. _Dr. Peters_ Harry C. Browne. _John Arnold_ Eugene O’Brien. _Professor Balzamo_ Charles Dalton. _Thomas_ John P. Brawn. _Miss Pettingill_ Mary Lawton. _Dorothy_ (“_Becky_”) Frances Starr.