William Winter, The Wallet of Time, Vol. 2, pp. 252-7 and pp. 328-32. Plays of the Present, by J. B. Clapp and E. V. Edgett, will be found very useful for individual plays. See also, David Belasco, My Life's Story 2v. N. Y., 1915; W. P. Eaton, The American Stage of To-day, pp. 203-14.
The story of Madame Butterfly, printed originally in the Century Magazine in 1897, has also been issued in book form. The play is now published for the first time through the courtesy of Mr. Belasco and Mr. Long from a manuscript prepared especially for this collection. For the information concerning the plays the editor is indebted to Mr. Belasco and to Mr. Thomas A. Curry of the Belasco Theatre.
Note to Revised Edition.
An authoritative life of David Belasco in two volumes was published in 1918 prepared by the late William Winter. Of especial interest is also The Theatre Through the Stage Door, by David Belasco, edited by L. V. Defoe, New York, 1919.
