He directed and produced Major Robert Presnel's play, "Her First Murders," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Zasu Pitts, St. Clair Bayfield, Oliver Thorndike, Joseph Caskey, Richard Taber, Merle Maddern, John Parrish, Ann Mason, Osna Palmer, Tito Vuolo, Frank Milton, George Spaulding, Alfred Webster, and William Challee in the cast. The play is based on a novel by Torry Chanslor. Cleon Throckmorton was set designer. Lange was Miss Pitts' costume designer. Victor Payne Jennings was also producer.
[To his ex-wife Dorothy Libaire, shortly before their divorce:] Show people should never marry. They should just see each other whenever they feel like it.