- Also a successful songwriter.
- (1904 - 1915) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1904) Stage Play: The Wizard of Oz.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Southerners. Musical comedy. Music by Will Marion Cook. Book by Will Mercer and Richard Grant. Lyrics by Will Mercer and Richard Grant. Musical Director: Antonio DeNovellis. Featuring songs by Egbert Van Alstyne. Featuring songs with lyrics by R.C. MacPherson, Harry Williams, Harry B. Smith and Will Marion Cook. Choreographed by Joseph C. Smith. Directed by George W. Lederer. New York Theatre: 23 May 1904- 25 Jun 1904 (36 performances). Cast: Florence Arkell (as "Lily"), Wilmer Bentley (as "Colonel Maximilian Easy"), William Wallace Black (as "Colonel Maximilian Easy"), Hattie Burdell (as "Louisiana"), Irene Cameron (as "Pansy"), Vinie Daly (as "Parthenia"), Ethel Davies (as "Florida"), Reine Davies (as "Japonica Preston"), Mildred De Vere (as "Violet"), Paul Decker, Walter Dixon, Belva Don Kersley, Wheeler Earl (as "Sam Blossom"), Elfie Fay, Edith Girvin, William Gould, Albert Hart, Louise Lathrop, Eddie Leonard, Sallie Loomis (as "Virginia"), Junie McCree (as "Brannigan Bey"), Abbie Mitchell (as "Mandy Lou"), Charles Moore (as "Uncle Mose"), Bertyne Mortimer (as "Magnolia Preston"), Bessie Moulton (as "Georgia"), Lorraine Osborne (as "Marguerite"), Violet Pearle (as "Atlanta"), Theodore S. Peters (as "Lewis Middleton"), Ella Ray (as "Carolina"), Lillian Rice (as "Orleans"), Averta Sanchez, Cecil Somers, Joseph W. Standish, Mabel Verne, Charles Wentz. Produced by George W. Lederer.
- (1904) Stage Play: Paris By Night.
- (1904) Stage Play: Down the Pike. Musical.
- (1905) Stage Play: A Yankee Circus on Mars/The Raiders.
- (1905) Stage Play: Tom, Dick and Harry. Musical comedy. Book by Aaron Hoffman and Harry Williams. Lyrics by Aaron Hoffman and Harry Williams. Music by Egbert Van Alstyne. Musical Director: Melville W. Brown[only Broadway credit]. Featuring songs by Max S. Witte. Featuring songs with lyrics by George Broadhurst. Musical numbers staged by Gertrude Hoffman. Directed by A.H. Woods and Will N. Drew. American Theatre (moved to Haverly's 14th Street Theatre from 20 Nov 1905- 25 Nov 1905, then moved to The West End Theatre from 27 Nov 1905- 2 Dec 1905, then moved to The American Theatre from 15 Jan 1906- close): 25 Sep 1905- 20Jan 1906 (33 performances). Cast: George L. Bickel (as "Tom, Late Flipper Brothers Circus"), Harry Bond (as "Colonel Bluff, commander U.S.A."), Jeannette LaBeau (as "Senorito Richarado, Spanish Spy"), Dorothy LaMar (as "Mrs. Ella Noyes, a widow"), Frank Thorndyke (as "Lieutenant Manley, second in command, U.S.A."), Harry Watson Jr. (as "Dick, Late Flipper Brothers Circus"), Ed Lee Wrothe (as "Harry, Late Flipper Brothers Circus"), Marion Armstrong (as "Showgirl"), Robert Athon (as "Don Garcia, President of the Port O'Domingo"), Miss Baldwin (as "Yearling"), Frank Bernard (as "The Great Mogul/Cadet and Turk"), George Blair (as "Cadet and Turk"), Miss. Brown (as "Yearling"), Mary Clayton (as "Showgirl"), Bessie Clifford (as "Lillian Bluff, Colonel's daughter"), Miss Dawn (as "Yearling"), Grace Falk (as "Yearling"), Miss Fitzgerald (as "Yearling"), Miss Frank (as "Yearling"), Mr. Grasser (as "Cadet and Turk"), B. Hawkins (as "Yearling"), Kitty Hawkins (as "Yearling"), V. Hawkins (as "Yearling"), Miss Hay (as "Showgirl"), John Henry (as "Malto, Spanish Spy disguised as musician"), Ida Hoppe (as "Showgirl"), Edna Hunter (as "Showgirl"), Miss Leigh (as "Yearling"), Miss Leroy (as "Showgirl"), James Lichter (as "Carson, a waiter/Cadet and Turk"), Regina McAvoy (as "Yearling"), Mr. McCarty (as "Cadet and Turk"), Frank McCue (as "I'm a Trailer"), Janet Melville (as "Yearling"), Tom O'Brien (as "Gallic, Spanish Spy disguised as musician"), M. Price (as "Cadet and Turk"), Clay Price (as "Reverse, Spanish Spy disguised as musician"), Charles Purdy (as "Cadet and Turk"), Miss Ranney (as "Yearling"), B. Raymond (as "Yearling"), Julia Raymond (as "Yearling"), Edna Richardson (as "Showgirl"), Miss Spaeth (as "Yearling"), Bebe Stanley (as "Showgirl"), Frank Stapleton (as "Congo, the President's servant"), Mr. Young (as "Cadet and Turk"). Produced by A.H. Woods.
- (1907) Stage Play: Not Yet, But Soon. Musical comedy.
- (1907) Stage Play: The Dairymaids. Musical farce. Music by Paul Rubens and Frank Tours. Lyrics by Arthur Wimperis. Book by Alexander M. Thompson and Robert Courtneidge. Featuring songs by Jerome Kern. Featuring songs with lyrics by M.E. Rourke. Featuring "It's Naughty to Be Kissed" by William T. Francis and J.B. Loughrey. Music and lyrics for "Quarrel Duet" with J.J. Montague. Featuring "Down the Strand" by E.G. McLellan and Bernard Rolt. Featuring "Barcelona" by Eustace Baynes, James W. Tate and Vernon Roy. Featuring "Oh, Mr. Brown" by Harry von Tilzer and Andrew B. Sterling. Featuring "Dat Friend of Mine" by Egbert Van Alstyne and Harry Williams. Featuring "In the Twi-Twi-Twilight" by Herman E. Darewski Jr. and Charles Wilmot. Musical Director: William T. Francis. Dances arranged by Adolph Neuberger. Directed by A.E. Dodson. Criterion Theatre: 26 Aug 1907- 16 Nov 1907 (86 performances). Cast: George Gregory, Donald Hall, Thelma Raye, Julia Sanderson, Huntley Wright, Bessie De Voie, Edna Dodsworth, Emily Francis, May Gerson, Dorothy Gibson, Enid Gibson, Flossie Hope, Lanford Kirby, John Laughlin, Lillian LeRoy, Maude LeRoy, Rose Leslie, Grace Lindsay, Hatty Lorraine, Minna Martrit, Beatrice McKay, Isabelle Meyers, Hazel Neason, Eugene O'Rourke, Ruby Ray, Frieda Weigold, Florence Wilson, Wilma Wood, May Yerby. Produced by Charles Frohman. Trivia: Sheet music for this show appears on the wall of the writer's office of 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
- (1907) Stage Play: The Hoyden. Musical comedy. Music by Paul Rubens, John L. Golden and Robert Hood Bowers. Lyrics by Paul Rubens, John L. Golden and Robert Hood Bowers. Book by Cosmo Hamilton. Based on "La Soeur" by Tristan Bernard. Musical Director: Robert Hood Bowers. Featuring songs with lyrics by Raymond Peck. Featuring "A Solitary Finish" by Egbert Van Alstyne and Harry Williams. Lyrics for "That's Why I Never Married" with Joseph Cawthorn. Featuring "On the Piazza" by George Spink. Featuring "My Father's Wooden Leg" by Harry Dillon and Joseph Cawthorn. Featuring "Put Me Amongst the Girls" by Dan Lipton and George Arthurs. Directed by Ben Teal. Knickerbocker Theatre (moved to Wallack's Theatre from 2 Dec 1907- 14 Dec 1907, then moved to The Grand Opera House from 27 Jan 1908- close): 19 Oct 1907- 1 Feb 1908 (66 performances). Cast: Nellie Beaumont (as "Ritz Santacierci"), Annie Esmond (as "Miss Herminia Smith"), Elsie Janis (as "Joan Talbot, known as "The Hoyden"/Herself"), Armand Kalisz (as "Dr. Julian Gousse"), Robert Lett (as "Major Algernon Fitzhugh Finch, Retired"), Arthur Stanford (as "Harry Talbot, of London"), Jane Archer (as "Ensemble"), L. Beck (as "Ensemble"), Ellen Beckwith (as "Ensemble"), Leila Benton (as "Beatriz, a guest of the hotel"), E.W. Bosher (as "Ensemble"), J. Brady (as "Ensemble"), S.M. Burbank (as "Ensemble"), Joseph Cawthorn (as "Baron Hugo Weybach"), May Chapin (as "Ensemble"), J.M. Colosanti (as "Ensemble"), Mabel Ballin (as "Gaston"), Isabel D'Armond (as "Henriette, Joan's maid"), Harry Depp (as "Danton"), Libbian Diamond (as "Ensemble"), Della Dolvan (as "Ensemble"), May Emory (as "Elise, a guest of the hotel"), F.R. Fenn (as "Ensemble"), L. Harkins (as "Ensemble"), Bena Hoffman (as "Ensemble"), Kathryn Hutchinson (as "Lucy Talbot"), Daisy Johnstone (as "Ensemble"), La Noveta (as "M'lle La Clairette"), Edith Livingstone (as "Ensemble"), Florence Major (as "Ensemble"), Lillian McMillan (as "Ensemble"), Evelyn Mitchell (as "Nanine, a guest of the hotel"), Bertha Morrell (as "Ensemble"), Mae Murray (as "Ensemble"), Marjorie Norton (as "Bebe, a guest of the hotel/Ensemble"), Eleanor Pendleton (as "Thais Coutier, Rita's friend"), Nita Pierson (as "Nanette, a guest of the hotel"), Clara Pitt (as "Fleurette, guest of the hotel"), Samuel Reed (as "Thomas Talbot. of New York"), J. Robb (as "Ensemble"), Ella Rock (as "Maud de Maulan, Rita's friend"), Jane Rogers (as "Violette, a guest of the hotel"), J. Rose (as "Ensemble"), Elsie Steele (as "Chris Angier, Rita's friend"), W. Toland (as "Ensemble"), Lottie Vernon (as "Marianne, guest of the hotel"), Pauline Walden (as "Ensemble"), Lionel Walsh (as "Hon. Bertie Cecil Grahame, a friend of Harry"), Larry Ward (as "Theobold, a chauffeur"), Robert Ward (as "Louis, a chauffeur"), Dorothy Webb (as "Ensemble"), Lura Wentworth (as "Ensemble"), Minnie Whitmore (as "Ensemble"), W.C. Wood (as "Ensemble"). Produced by Charles B. Dillingham. Produced in association with Charles Frohman.
- (1908) Stage Play: Nearly a Hero. Musical/farce. Book by Harry B. Smith. Lyrics by Edward B. Claypoole and Will Heelan. Music by Seymour Furth. Orchestra under the direction of Oscar Radin. Featuring "I Don't Want to Marry You" and "My Sahara Girl" by Edward B. Claypoole. Lyrics for "My Sahara Girl" by Harry B. Smith. Featuring "I'm So Particular" by Matt Woodward and Louis A. Hirsch. Featuring "I Was a Hero (Too)" by Egbert Van Alstyne and Harry Williams. Featuring "Mary! My Heather Belle" by John B. Lowitz. Featuring songs by Herman Avery Wade. Scenic Design by Arthur Voegtlin and Edward G. Unitt. Costume Design by Castel-Bert and Miss Finch. Men's costumes by Ritchie Harnden and Charles Swarns. Dances arranged by William Rock. Directed by George F. Marion and James C. Huffman. Casino Theatre: 24 Feb 1908- 6 Jun 1908 (116 performances). Cast: Neva Aymar, Burrell Barbaretto, Sam Bernard, Elizabeth Brice, Sam Edwards, Ethel Levey, Edgar Norton (as "Harold Percy Montague"), Zelda Sears (as "Mrs. Doolittle"), Marian Alexander, Louis Austin, Jane Brown, Doris Cameron, Miss Carr, Cyril Chadwick (as "Singer/dancer"), William Davis, Alice Eis, W.F. Fair, R. Franklyn, Edith Gervan, Robert Paton Gibbs, Fred Gray, Daisy Greene, Lillian Harris, Louis Helie, W.A. Hungerford, Josephine Kernell, Richard J. Kirkwood, Alice Knowlton, Dorothy Lancaster, Rita Lancaster, Ethel Lawrence, Victor Le Roy (as "Singer/dancer"), Adelaide Lehr, Adah Baker Lewis (as "Gwendolyn Doolittle, a matinée girl of romantic dispositions"), Samuel Lindsay, Virginia Marshall, Violet Moore, Susan Pitt, Nancy Poole, Maxine Revillion, Franklyn Roberts, Katherine Robertson, Albertine Sargent, Vaughn Sargent, W. Slick, Edith Warner, Dorothy Watson, Ethel Wheeler. Produced by Sam S. and Lee Shubert Inc.
- (1908) Stage Play: The Big Stick.
- (1908) Stage Play: Miss Innocence. Musical extravaganza. Music by Ludwig Englander. Based on material by Harry B. Smith. Lyrics by Harry B. Smith. Featuring songs by Egbert Van Alstyne. Featuring songs with lyrics by Harry Williams. Featuring "My Post Card Girl" by Louis A. Hirsch and Addison Burkhard. Featuring "I'm Learning Something Every Day" by Nora Bayes and Jack Norworth. Featuring "I Have Lost My Little Brown Bear" by J. Rosamond Johnson and Bob Cole. Featuring "I'm Crazy When the Band Begins to Play" by Jean Schwartz and William Jerome. Featuring "What Kind of a Wife to Choose" by Gus Edwards. Musical Director: Frank Darling. Produced under the direction of Julian Mitchell. Note: Production revived at The New York Theatre: 30 Nov 1908- 1 May 1909 (176 performances). Cast: Charles A. Bigelow, Edith Decker, Lawrence D'Orsay (as "Captain, The Hon. Roland Fitzmaurice Montjoy of the First Life Guards"), Eva Francis, Anna Held (as "Anna/Miss Innocence"), Emma Janvier, Shirley Kellogg, Lillian Lorraine, Edith St. Clair, Florence Walton, Gladys Zell, Charles Barry, James Barry, Edna Birch, Bertha Blake, Martha Bright, John S. Brush, Miss Burns, Daisy Carson, Edna Chase, Daisy Clark, James Clyde, Miss Davies, Edna Dodsworth, Ethel Donaldson, Faico, Alfred Fairbrother, Miss Fennell, Dorothy Follies, William Gammage, Robert Paton Gibbs (as "The Duke of Pomerania"), Mayble Gilmore, Elise Hamilton, Josephine Harriman, F. Stanton Heck, Maurice Hegeman, May Hopkins, Vonnie Hoyt, Violet Jewell, La Flamencia, Beatrice Learwood, Ruby Lewis, Lionel Lozier, Miss MacDonald, Selma Mantell, Leo Mars, Virginia Marshall, Dudley Oatman, Mae Paul, Grace Rankin, Alfred Rinehart, Pierre Roudil, Daisy Rudd, Mabel Snyder, Madlyn Summers, Peter Swift, Reina Swift, Lottie Vernon, Grace Washburn, John Wentzel, Blanche West, Vida Whitmore, Marion Whitney, Lillian Wiggins, May Willard, Anna C. Wilson, Ernest Wood, John A. Young. Replacement actors during run: Millie Baker (as "Ella Lee"), Lillian Devere (as "Carita"), Beatrice Gladstone (as "Zolo"), Camille Langhorne (as "Zarza"), Eunice Mackey (as "Marie"), Myrtle Marsh (as "Gabrielle"), Marie Merwin (as "Eugenie"), Max Scheck (as "An American"). Produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr..
- (1909) Stage Play: A Broken Idol. Musical/farce.
- (1910) Stage Play: The Young Turk.
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