Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 298, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1911 — Child of Genius. [ARTICLE]

Child of Genius.

An actor was talking at the Players’ Club in New York about David Belasco’s akill as a Stage manager. "Belasco," said the actor, "has a*i superhuman sense of the harmonies, the fitnesses of things. This enables him to carry out a stage scene to such small details as no man ever dreamed of before. “Belasco, even hi his childhood, possessed this unique sense of harmony. An Uncle once gave him a couple of dmcolate cigars, then mid to the little boy: ’“What are you going to do with them, David?’ “ ‘lll go and eat them in the smoking room,” was the prompt reply.* >;