After an interval of three years he returns to America, representing himself to be a collector of pictures, named _Lenoir_, who has gathered together a large number of paintings by the defunct _Dupont_--whose works now sell for enormous sums. He finds his “widow” married to his former “friend” and the mother of a child by him, and also he finds that person to be industriously engaged in forging paintings by _Dupont_. During an auction sale of his works _Dupont_, stung by manifestations of injustice, sordid meanness, and duplicity, declares his identity and rebukes those who have wronged and contemned him. Then, for the sake of the child, he agrees to arrange for a divorce from his unworthy wife,--signifying his purpose, in due course, to unite himself in matrimony to a loving young girl who has befriended him in his earlier afflictions and remained faithful to his memory while supposing him to be dead. The opportunity for gibes and railings provided by the successive postures of circumstance thus indicated are obvious and many. Yet, at best, the comicality evoked by them is bitter and painful.--“The Temperamental Journey,” which was much admired and exceptionally successful, was cast as follows: _Jacques Dupont_ Leo Ditrichstein. _Prof. Babcock Roland_ Henry Bergman. _Vernon Neil_ Frank Connor. _Billy Shepherd_ Richie Ling. _Dorval_ Edouard Durand. _Howard Locke_ Julian Little. _Carrington McLiss_ Lee Millar. _Tamburri_ M. Daniel Schatts. _Roy_ } { Edwin R. Wolfe. _Max_ } { Earle W. Grant. _Edna_ } _Prof. Roland’s_ { Carree Clarke. _Eleanor_ } Pupils. { Anna McNaughton. _Marjorie_ } { Dorothy Ellis. _Lina_ } { Annette Tyler. _Messenger_ William Dixon. _Delphine_ Isabel Irving. _Maria_ Josephine Victor. _Fanny Lamont_ Cora Witherspoon. _Teresa_ Gertrud Morisini. _Maid_ Alice Jones. A REVIVAL OF “THE AUCTIONEER.” An incident of the theatrical season of 1913-’14 which requires passing record here is the revival by Belasco of “The Auctioneer,”--a play which, in all essentials, was original with him and which for this revival he again revised, making it somewhat more closely-knit and effective than it was when first he brought forward David Warfield in it. “The Auctioneer” was acted at the Knickerbocker Theatre, New York, September 30, 1913, with the following cast: