19. Cecil Raleigh’s farce, “The Great Pink Pearl,” and Augustus Thomas’ one-act drama, “Editha’s Burglar,” were produced, under Belasco’s stage direction, at the Lyceum. October. 24. At the Fourteenth Street Theatre “Baron Rudolph,”--originally entitled “Only a Tramp,”--by Bronson Howard, first rewritten as well as renamed by Howard; then, at Howard’s request, altered and improved by Belasco, was produced, for the first time in New York, by George S. Knight,--Charles Frohman representing Knight in the business management and Belasco stage directing the performance. Failure: the play was kept on the stage four weeks, to bad business. (In its original form Knight first presented “Baron Rudolph” in New York, at the Windsor Theatre, October 17, 1881.) November. 1. At the Lyceum occurred the first performance on any stage of “The Wife,” by Belasco and Henry C. DeMille. 19. “Baron Rudolph” was withdrawn at the Fourteenth Street Theatre. December. --. During this month Belasco revised and rectified William Gillette’s dramatization of Haggard’s “She,”--which had been produced at Niblo’s Garden on November 29. His work, for which he received $1,000, made a popular success of that spectacle. 1888. June. 16. 239th consecutive performance of “The Wife,” and close of the Lyceum Theatre. August. 21. The Lyceum was reopened for the season with first performance anywhere of Belasco and De Mille’s “Lord Chumley.” September. 11. Belasco’s revision of E. J. Schwartz’s “The Kaffir Diamond” was produced at the Broadway Theatre, New York, with Louis Aldrich in the chief part. (Belasco was paid $300 for his work on this play.) November. 11. --th and last performance at the Lyceum of “Lord Chumley.”