_Signor Tagliafico_ } Musicians of the { W.G. Ricciardi. _Mons. Louis Pinac_ } Liberty Café. { Louis P. Verande. _Herr August Poons_ } { Leon Kohlmar. _Henry A. Stanton_ Campbell Gollan. _Andrew Cruger_ William Boag. _Beverly Cruger_ J. Carrington Yates. _Mr. Schwarz_ Alfred Hudson. _Mr. Ryan_ Tony Bevan. _Al. Costello_ Louis Hendricks. _Joles_ Harold Mead. _Ditson_ H. G. Carlton. _Danny_ Master Richard Kessler. _A Collector_ Downing Clarke. _Mrs. Andrew Cruger_ Isabel Waldron. _Helen Stanton_ Minnie Dupree. _Miss Houston_ Marie Bates. _Jenny_ Antoinette Walker. _Charlotte_ Sybil Klein. _Octavie_ Jane Cowl. After the Second Act Belasco was many times called before the curtain and finally, responding to insistent requests, addressed the audience in an exceptionally animated way, saying: “I hope you will excuse me from making a formal speech; but I am most happy to take this occasion to say that I am glad you like our little play and glad that Mr. David Warfield has succeeded. And I am happy, too, to take this occasion to say publicly how proud I am of him and how very, very grateful I am for his loyalty to me--loyalty that no persecution could shake and no malice undermine! There have been lawsuits, plots, perjuries, and lies; there have been vexations enough to weary the patience of a saint (and I am not a saint, ladies and gentlemen!): but Mr. Warfield has remained through it all unshaken and true to me--and I honor and thank him: and, ladies and gentlemen, as long as I possess your confidence and friendship no theatrical syndicates, with all their money and outside influence, can crush me or dictate to me in what way I shall conduct my business. I rejoice in Mr. Warfield’s success, and since this play pleases you, I will only say that our prosperity is just so much more ammunition with which to continue the struggle for Justice and the triumph of Right in American theatrical management!” The appended letter, written by Belasco during the toil and strain of preparing his “Music Master” and “Adrea” productions, indicates his strenuous labor to make the former a success and his almost diffident estimate of his practically invaluable contributions to it as a playwright: (_David Belasco to Charles Klein, at Merriewold Park, N. Y._)