Excellent performances were given in this farce, especially by Cyril Scott,--a neat and skilful actor of pleasant personality, who bears himself with more breezy jauntiness than most men half his age,--H. Reeves-Smith and William Sampson, both experienced and accomplished players of the old school, and by Miss Ina Claire, a talented young actress, who, as _Polly Shannon_, made her first appearance on the legitimate stage in it. Belasco’s attention was first directed to her during the season of 1915-’16 when, as one of the performers in a vaudeville, she sang a song called “Poor Little Marie-Odile” in which he was severely lampooned. He attended her performance, was favorably impressed by her singing and imitations, and engaged her. Miss Claire is pretty, extraordinarily self-poised, an expert mimic, has a good stage presence, is able to assume effectively a demure manner, and she played _Polly_ with spirit, humor, and at least one touch of feeling. “TIGER ROSE.” “Tiger Rose” was written by Willard Mack and then rewritten under Belasco’s direction and with his assistance. It was first produced at the Shubert Theatre, Wilmington, Delaware, on April 30, 1917: on October 3, that year, it was produced at the Lyceum Theatre, New York, where it is still current (June, 1918) and where it bids fair to remain for many weeks. It is a picturesque and effective melodrama, in four acts (the third being presented as practically an undetached continuation of the second), the scene of which is a frontier post in the Canadian Northwest. The action of that play revolves around the love affair of a French-Canadian girl named _Rose Bocion_. She is an orphan and the ward of _Hector MacCollins_, a conventionally austere yet kindly Scotchman, a factor of the Hudson Bay Trading Company, in whose dwelling three of the acts take place. The girl, a lovely flower of the forest, is admired and courted by all the youth for many a mile around, including a capable but dissolute Irishman, _Constable Michael Devlin_, of the Royal North Western Mounted Police. _Rose_, however, will have none of them,--for she and _Bruce Norton_, a young civil engineer from a neighboring construction camp, have met by chance and have become lovers. _Norton_, in the camp where he is employed, unexpectedly encounters and kills a man who, years earlier, had first misled and then deserted his sister, a married woman, who in consequence committed suicide. _Norton_ makes his escape into the wilderness and seeks to communicate with _Rose_, his only friend, hoping to obtain her help in getting clear of the region. An Indian squaw employed in the factor’s household bears a message and eventually he succeeds in reaching the girl. But information of his crime has been transmitted to _MacCollins’_ dwelling, by telephone, where it is received by _Devlin_. That blackguard, who has been made furious by _Rose’s_ bitterly contemptuous repulse of his dishonorable