to rheumatism, years equal to hers, and a strong preference for easy old slippers instead of dancing pumps. They then agree to abandon a projected honeymoon trip around the world, to which both of them have looked forward with dread, and to take their ease sensibly, in the home surroundings which they prefer.--This was the cast of “Years of Discretion”: _Christopher Dallas_ Lyn Harding. _Michael Doyle_ Bruce McRae. _John Strong_ Herbert Kelcey. _Amos Thomas_ Robert McWade, Jr. _Farrell Howard, Jr._ Grant Mitchell. _Metz_ E. M. Holland. _Mrs. Farrell Howard_ Effie Shannon. _Mrs. Margaret Brinton_ Alice Putnam. _Anna Merkel_ Mabel Bunyea. _Lilly Newton_ Ethel Pettit. _Bessie Newton_ Myrtle Morrison. “THE TEMPERAMENTAL JOURNEY.” Leo Ditrichstein adapted “The Temperamental Journey” from a French original called “Pour Vivre Heureux,” by André Rivoire and Yves Mirande, and Belasco produced it, for the first time, at the Lyceum Theatre, Rochester, New York, August 28, 1913, and, September 4, following, for the first time in New York, at the Belasco Theatre. It is an unusually clever, sometimes humorous, sometimes bitterly satirical, farce blent with elements of comedy and constructed around the struggles and tribulations of a sincere, capable, “temperamental,” and unappreciated painter named _Jacques Dupont_,--a part that was admirably acted (with discretion, humor, feeling, and even a touch of passion) by Mr. Ditrichstein. Notwithstanding the merit of his art _Dupont_ is unable to sell his paintings. In a moment of despair, having been meanly upbraided for his ill-fortune by his wife,--a shallow, selfish hypocrite,--_Dupont_ resolves to destroy himself. He writes a farewell letter to his wife, which he leaves with his clothes on the shore and, forgetful of the fact that he is a capital swimmer, flings himself into the waters of Long Island Sound to drown. The immersion so much refreshes him that he changes his mind about dying, swims lustily, and, being hauled on board of a sailing craft, makes a voyage to Halifax. Upon returning home a fortnight or so later he finds his hypocritical wife and friends, indulging to the full in “the luxury of woe,” about to hold funeral services over a dead body which they receive as his; and, also, he finds that his paintings, previously the objects of contumely, are selling for high prices,--public interest having been inspired by the pathetic circumstances of his supposed suicide. After observing from an unsuspected coign of vantage in their home his hypocritical “widow’s” ready acceptance of the embraces of one of his “friends,” and after witnessing with ironic contempt the funeral over what are supposed to be his remains, _Dupont_ betakes himself to Paris, where he paints many landscapes.