All this, if sometimes false to the probabilities of actual life, is always responsive to the purposes of acting, and, as presented by Belasco,--with scrupulous care to every aspect of the stage setting and to every detail of the stage management and with an unusually capable company,--the melodrama merits the success it has achieved. The central character is, of course, _Rose Bocion_,--who, with euphonious disregard of gender, is called _Tiger Rose_. This girl is headstrong, impulsive, and intense, she indulges with excessive freedom in violent expletives, and she fights hard for the man she loves. But there is nothing tiger-like in her conduct or her character. On the contrary, _Rose_, is winsome, brave, loyal, ardent, resourceful and utterly sincere, devoted and unselfish in her love. However, the name makes a striking title for the play. Miss Lenore Ulric, who acts the part, is possessed of exceptional natural advantages,--youth; a handsome face; abundant hair; expressive eyes, dark and beautiful; a slender, lithe figure; a sympathetic voice; strong, attractive personality, and an engaging manner. Her temperament is intense, her nature passionate, her style direct and simple. Her acting reveals force of character, experience, observation, thought, sensibility, ardor, definite purpose, and unusual command of the mechanics of art. It is, moreover, suffused with fervid, sometimes ungoverned feeling (which is a defect), and it is at all times sincere, individual, and interesting. She is an admirable listener, an excellent speaker,--articulating with great care,--and, at moments (as, for example, in a colloquy with _Father Tibault_ as to belief in Diety), the disposition she exhibits in this performance seems altogether childlike and lovely. Under Belasco’s sagacious direction she should go far. CAST OF “TIGER ROSE.” _Hector MacCollins_ Thomas Findlay. _Dan Cusick, M.D._ William Courtleigh. _Constable Michael Devlin, R.N.W.M.P._ Willard Mack. _Bruce Norton_ Calvin Thomas. _Father Thibault_ Fuller Mellish. _Pierre La Bey_ Pedro De Cordoba. _George Lantry_ Edwin Holt. _Old Tom_ Edward Mack. _Constable Haney_ Arthur J. Wood. _Mak-a-low_ Chief Whitehawk. _Wa-Wa_ Jean Ferrell. _Rose Bocion_ Lenore Ulric. [Illustration: Photograph by Arnold Genthe. Collection of Jefferson Winter. DAVID BELASCO--HIS LATEST PORTRAIT, 1918] CHRONOLOGY CHRONOLOGY OF THE LIFE OF DAVID BELASCO HUMPHREY ABRAHAM BELASCO, BORN, LONDON, ENGLAND, DECEMBER 26, 1830. REINA MARTIN BELASCO, BORN, LONDON, ENGLAND, APRIL 24. 1830. 1853. July. 25. DAVID BELASCO, eldest child of Humphrey Abraham, and Reina Martin, Belasco, was BORN, in a house in Howard Street, near Third Street, San Francisco, California.