Bert Lee(1880-1946)

Stage: Co-wrote lyrics (earliest Broaway credit) for "The Girl from Utah", produced on Broadway. Musical comedy. Book by James T. Tanner. Music by Paul Rubens and Sidney Jones. Lyrics by Percy Greenbank and Adrian Ross. Additional numbers by Jerome Kern. Featuring songs with lyrics by Harry B. Smith, Arthur Wimperis, Herbert Reynolds. Featuring songs by Herman Finck, Harry Castling, C.W. Murphy, Worton David and Chris Smith. Musical Director: Gustave Salzer and Theodore Stearns. Costume Design by Schneider-Anderson Company. Directed by J.A.E. Malone. Knickerbocker Theatre: 9 Aug 1915-28 Aug 1915 (24 performances). Cast: Edith Allen (as "Chorus"), Veronique Banner (as "Mrs. Ponsonby"), Edith Barr (as "Chorus"), George Bishop (as "Lord Amersham"), Donald Brian (as "Sandy Blair, leading man at the Gaiety Theatre"), Frances Burress (as "Chorus"), Joseph Cawthorn (as "Trimpel, of Brixton Rest"), Jessie Crane (as "A Flapper"), Edgar Dickson (as "Policeman PR 38"), Louise Donovan (as "Miss Rosie Jocelyn, Actress at the Gaiety Theatre"), Radford D'Orsay (as "Chorus"), Clara Eckstrom (as "Lady Muriel Chepstone"), Dickson Elliott (as "Bobbie Longshot"), Irene Enright (as "Chorus"), Dorothy Erhard (as "Chorus"), Kathleen Erroll (as "Chorus"), Willie Fink (as "Chorus"), Venita Fitzhugh (as "Dora Manners, leading lady of the Gaiety Theatre"), F.S. Foley (as "Chorus"), Marie Francis (as "Chorus"), William Francis Jr. (as "Comissionaire"), Mabel Gibson (as "Miss Lydia Saville, Actress at the Gaiety Theatre"), Walter Gilbert (as "Chorus"), Russell Griswold (as "Douglas Noel"), George Grundy (as "Col. Oldham-Pryce"), Edith Hardlow (as "Chorus"), Alma Harrison (as "Miss Violet Vesey, Actress at the Gaiety Theatre"), Fannie Hasbroek (as "Chorus"), Jacque Hastings (as "Chorus"), Kathleen Hitchens (as "Chorus"), William L. Hobart (as "Chorus"), Catherine Hurst (as "Chorus"), Margaret Langdon (as "Chorus"), Harry Law (as "Lord Orpington"), Eunice MacKay (as "A Waitress" / "Chorus"), Olga Markusson (as "Chorus"), Violet Marsden (as "Chorus"), Michael Mathews (as "Page "), Marie McCullough (as "Chorus"), Caroline Oden (as "Chorus"), James O'Neill (as "Chorus"), Diane Oste (as "Miss Mona West, Actress at the Gaiety Theatre"), Lester Ostrander (as "Chorus"), Alice Palmer (as "Honorable Miss St. Auburn"), Irene Palmer (as "Lady Mary Nowell/Chorus"), Zamora Pierce (as "Chorus"), Jack Potter (as "Chorus"), Renee Reel (as "Clancy"), Miss Manners' maid"), Julia Sanderson (as "Una Trance, The Girl from Utah"), Gladys Siddons (as "Chorus"), Frank Snyder (as "Chorus"), Charles Vandivere (as "Chorus"), Queenie Vassar (as "Lady Amersham, Lord Amersham's mother"), A. von Bereghy (as "Chorus"), Lorraine Waters (as "Chorus"), George Wharton (as "Archie Tooth"), Dorothy Wilcock (as "Miss Sylvia Paget, Actress at the Gaiety Theatre"), Walter S. Wills (as "Detective Shooter, of Scotland Yard"), Louise Worthington (as "Chorus"), Edward C. Yeager (as "Chorus"). Produced by Charles Frohman. NOTE: Mr. Frohman had died in the sinking of the Lusitania on 7 May 1915 and this production was one of two that were ultimately produced in the U.S. as planned before the creation of Charles Frohman Inc. which remained active until 1930 (the firm would remain nominally in the theatre business through 1937).