in Paris, shadowed by strange, “high-shouldered” houses, through which the wretched _du Barry_, abject and terrified, was dragged to execution,--huddled in a tumbril, attended only by a priest, the _Papal Nuncio_, and followed by a fierce, hooting rabble, while other men and women appeared at various house-windows, to jeer and curse her. It was an afflictingly pathetic scene, conceived and executed with perfect sense of dramatic effect and perfect mastery of the means of creating it. This was the original cast of “Du Barry”: _King Louis the Fifteenth_ of France Charles A. Stevenson. _Comte Jean du Barry_ Campbell Gollan. _Comte Guillaume du Barry_ Beresford Webb. _Duc de Brissac_ Henry Weaver, Sr. _Cossé-Brissac_ Hamilton Revelle. _The Papal Nuncio_ H. R. Roberts. _Duc de Richelieu_ Frederick Perry. _Terray, Minister of Finance_ C. P. Flockton. _Maupeou, Lord Chancellor_ H. G. Carlton. _Duc d’Aiguillon_ Leonard Cooper. _Denys_ Claude Gillingwater. _Lebel_ Herbert Millward. _M. Labille_ Gilmore Scott. _Vaubernier_ Walter Belasco. [Illustration: Photograph by Byron. Belasco’s Collection. CHARLES A. STEVENSON AS _KING LOUIS THE FIFTEENTH_, IN BELASCO’S “DU BARRY”]