The Life of David Belasco; Vol. 2

part is a Jewish auctioneer, named _Simon Levi_, resident in Baxter

Street, New York, and conducting an auction-room in the Five Points region. _Levi_, having inherited a modest but competent fortune, purchases a residence in a fashionable part of the city and invests the balance of his money in a Trust Company. Then, at a festival in celebration of the betrothal of his adopted daug...