22. He appeared as _Fornechet_, _Minister of Finance_, in a presentment of Sutter’s “Life’s Revenge,” by the Fire-Fly Social and Dramatic Club, at Turnverein Hall, Bush Street, near Powell, San Francisco. July. 10. BELASCO’S FIRST REGULAR APPEARANCE on the professional stage,--as a super, with Joseph Murphy, in “Help,” at the Metropolitan Theatre. Subsequently he was given a small part, a few words to speak, in this play. “Help” was played till July 16, Sunday night. 19. “Help” revived at Metropolitan Theatre. 22. End of Murphy’s engagement in “Help.” 1872. July. 22. He played _Bloater_, in “Maum Cre” (then first acted in San Francisco), with Joseph Murphy, at the Metropolitan Theatre. December. 16. He appeared at the Metropolitan Theatre, San Francisco, with Minnie Wells (not Mary Wells), in “The Lion of Nubia” (not Lioness), as _Lieutenant Victor_: on this occasion he was billed as Walter Kingsley. 1873. February. 23. He played _Peter Bowbells_ in “The Illustrious Stranger,” in a Benefit Performance, for Marion Mordaunt, at the Metropolitan Theatre. March. 5. “Grand Reopening of the Metropolitan Theatre,” under direction of John R. Woodard: cheap prices: The Chapman Sisters, in H. J. Byron’s “Little Don Giovanni.” Belasco played the _First Policeman_. 18. He played _Prince Saucilita_ (giving burlesque of a local character known as “Emperor” Norton), in “The Gold Demon,” with the Chapman Sisters, at the Metropolitan Theatre. 21. He played _Strale_, in “Checkmate,” with the Chapmans, at the Metropolitan. April. 2. (One night only.) He played _Reuben_, in “Schermerhorn’s Boy,” and _Strale_, in “Checkmate,” with the Chapmans, at the Academy of Music, Oakland, California. 3. At the Metropolitan, San Francisco, he appeared, with the Chapmans, as the _Genius_ _of the Ring_, in “The Wonderful Scamp; or, Aladdin No. 2,” and as _Peter True_, in “The Statue Lover.” 9. He played the _First Fury_, in “Pluto,” with the Chapmans, at the Metropolitan. 18. Revival of “Little Don Giovanni” at the