The Project Gutenberg eBook of The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 1
Title: The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 1
Author: William Winter
William Jefferson Winter
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THE LIFE OF
DAVID BELASCO
VOLUME ONE
THE RECENT
WORKS OF WILLIAM WINTER
Other Days., Being Chronicles and Memories of The Stage (1908).
Old Friends., Being Literary Recollections of Other Days (1909).
Poems (Definitive Edition—1909).
Life and Art of Richard Mansfield (Two Volumes—1910).
Shakespeare’s England (Revised and Augmented—1910).
Gray Days and Gold (Revised and Augmented—1911).
Over the Border (Scotch Companion to Above—1911).
Shakespeare on the Stage,—First Series: 1911. I. “Shakespeare Spells Ruin.” II. King Richard III. III. The Merchant of Venice. IV. Othello. V. Hamlet. VI. Macbeth. VII. King Henry VIII.
Shakespeare on the Stage,—Second Series: 1915. I. Twelfth Night. II. Romeo and Juliet. III. As You Like It. IV. King Lear. V. The Taming of the Shrew. VI. Julius Cæsar.
Shakespeare on the Stage,—Third Series: 1916. I. Cymbeline. II. Love’s Labor’s Lost. III. Coriolanus. IV. A Midsummer Night’s Dream. V. King Henry IV.,—First and Second Parts. VI. The Merry Wives of Windsor. VII. Antony and Cleopatra. VIII. King John.
Lives of the Players:—I. Tyrone Power (1912).
The Wallet of Time, Containing Personal, Biographical, and Critical Reminiscence of the American Theatre (Two Volumes—1913).
Vagrant Memories, Being Further Recollections of Other Days (1915).
The Life of David Belasco (Two Volumes—1918).
DAVID BELASCO
—Shakespeare
From a portrait by the Misses Selby, New York.
Author’s Collection.
THE LIFE
OF
DAVID BELASCO
BY
WILLIAM WINTER
(1836-1917)
“He, being dead, yet speaketh.”
VOLUME ONE
New York
MOFFAT, YARD AND COMPANY
1918
Copyright, 1918, by
JEFFERSON WINTER
All Rights Reserved
TO
THE MEMORY OF
REINA MARTIN BELASCO
This Memoir of Her Son
DAVID BELASCO
Actor, Dramatist, and Manager,
Whom She Dearly Loved
And by Whom She Was Idolized,
Is Reverently Dedicated
By the Stranger Who Has Written It,
Hoping Thereby to Honor and Commemorate
Genius, Courage, Industry, Enterprise, and Energy,
Exemplified in a Useful and Beneficent Life,
In the Service of
The Theatre
The fate of those they love and leave behind,
She, in that Heaven, may be glad to know
Her son was honored with his human kind.
Can steer a ship becalm’d, but he that will
Govern and carry her to her ends must know
His tides, his currents, how to shift his sails,
What she will bear in foul, what in fair, weathers,
What her springs are, her leaks and how to stop ’em,
What strands, what shelves, what rocks, do threaten her,
The forces and the nature of all winds,
Gusts, storms, and tempests, when her keel ploughs hell
And deck knocks heaven, THEN to manage her
Becomes the name and office of a Pilot!”
—BEN JONSON, IN “CATILINE.”