Belasco, David, 1853-1931; Theater -- United States
_A Poet_ Ernest Lawford.
_Betsy_ Iva Merlin.
_Mrs. MacMiche_ William Norris.
_Charles MacLance_, a Good Little Devil Ernest Truex.
_Old Nick, Sr._ Edward Connelly.
_Old Nick, Jr._ Etienne Girardot.
_Juliet_ Mary Pickford.
_Marian_ Laura Grant.
_Queen Mab_ Wilda Bennett.
_Viviane_ Edna Griffin.
_Morganie_ Lillian Gish.
_Titania_ Claire Burke.
_Dewbright_ Reggie Wallace.
_Thought-From-Afar_ Georgia Mae Fursman.
_Jock_ Louis Esposit.
_Wally_ Gerard Gardner.
_Mac_ Adrian Morgan.
_Tam_ Jerome Fernandez.
_Sandy_ Edward Dolly.
_Allan_ Norman Taurog.
_Neil_ Harold Meyer.
_Jamie_ Carlton Riggs.
_Davie_ David Ross.
_Robert_ Roland Wallace.
_John_ Charles Castner.
_Angus_ Lauren Pullman.
_Huggermunk_ Pat Walshe.
_Muggerhunk_ Sam Goldstein.
_The Solicitor from London_ Dennis Cleugh.
_The Doctor from Inverary_ Joseph A. Wilkes.
_The Lawyer from Oban_ Robert Vivian.
_Rab, the dog_ Arthur Hill.
“THE SECRET.”
“_A secret and villanous contriver._”
“When I produced ‘The Secret,’” writes Belasco, in a biographical note
made for me, “I was told by most of the writers for the [news]papers,
and by many friends, that the principal character in it, _Gabrielle_, is
untrue to life--is _impossible_! Well, all I have to say is:--It is
_not_ impossible. She is very exceptional, no doubt, and morbid; but she
is _true_ to life and I know it, because I have seen and known and had
to deal with exactly such women as _Gabrielle_. They are unpleasant, of
course,--but they are real, a part of the Comedy of Human Life that I
have aimed to show in the Theatre, and that is the reason I produced
‘The Secret,’ notwithstanding much advice against it. I did not expect
financial success.”
Public-domain text, read in full here on John Shaqi.
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