The New York performance was scenically inadequate, but the integrity of the record demands that the cast be given here: Samson, Signor Tamagno; Dalila, Mme.

Mantelli; High Priest, Signor Campanari; Abimelech and An Old Hebrew, M.Plancon; First Philistine, Signor Rinaldini; Second Philistme, Signor de Vachetti; conductor, Signor Mancinelli.

The Metropolitan management did not venture upon a repetition until the opening night of the season 1915-1916, when its success was such that it became an active factor in the repertory of the establishment; but by that time it had been made fairly familiar to the New York public by performances at the Manhattan Opera House under the management of Mr.Oscar Hammerstein, the first of which took place on November 13, 1908.

Signor Campanini conducted and the cast embraced Mme.

Gerville-Reache as Dalila, Charles Dalmores as Samson, and M.Dufranne as High Priest.