- (1902 - 1907) Active on Broadway in the following productions:
- (1902) Stage Play: The Wild Rose. Musical comedy. Music by Ludwig Englander. Book by Harry B. Smith and George V. Hobart. Lyrics by Harry B. Smith and George V. Hobart. Musical Direction by Frederic Solomon. Featuring songs with lyrics by William H. Penn, Ren Shields [earliest Broadway credit] and Clifton Crawford. Additional lyrics by William Jerome, Junie McCree, Cecil Mack, John Gilroy and Vincent Bryan. Additional music by Harry Linton, Will Marion Cook, Harry von Tilzer, Ben Jerome, Melville Ellis and Jean Schwartz. Scenic Design by D. Frank Dodge. Costume Design by Caroline Seidle. Dances arranged by Adolph Neuberger. Directed by George W. Lederer. Knickerbocker Theatre: 5 May 1902- 30 Aug 1902 (136 performances). Cast: Madge Adae (as "Diane D'Ivry"), Marion Alexander (as "La Boulotte"), George Ali (as "Baby"), Neva Aymer (as "Michelline"), Theresa Barron (as "Lena"), David Bennett (as "Lieutenant Marcel de Talleyrand-Perigord") [Broadway debut], Irene Bentley (as "Rose Romany"), Irene Bishop (as "Fanchonette"), William Wallace Black (as "Count von Lahn/Scipio"), Minna Blackman (as "Lisa"), Madge Brooks (as "La Radieuse"), Marie Cahill (as "Vera von Lahn"), Viola Carlstedt (as "Lieutenant Goetz"), Marguerite Clark (as "Lieutenant Gaston Gardennes"), Ma Belle Davis (as "Cigale"), Louise De Rigney (as "Lieutenant Bourbon"), Belva Don Kersley (as "Germinie"), Teddie DuCoe (as "Gretchen"), Elsie Ferguson (as "Philomele"), Evelyn Florence (as "Vashti"), Mazie Follette (as "Petite Singe"), Edwin Foy (as "Paracelsus Noodles"), Ida Gabrielle (as "Rafael"), Archie Guerin (as "Fritz"), Averell Harris (as "Lieutenant Walther"), Albert Hart (as "Mahomet"), Charles Hooker (as "Lieutenant Pierre de Rastignac"), Helga Howard (as "Beppo"), Ethel Jewett (as "La Joyeuse"), Louis Kelso (as "Lieutenant Henri St. Bris"), Elba Kenny (as "Lieutenant Charlevoix"), Richard Lambert (as "Major Hauptmann"), V.H. Lee (as "Lieutenant Conrad"), David Lythgoe (as "Rudolph von Walden"), Hazel Manchester (as "Barbara"), Madge Marston (as "Eve Bonheur"), Junie McCree (as "Victor Hugo de Brie"), Rube Miller (as "Lieutenant Franz von Richter"), Charles Morton (as "Lieutenant Leopold"), E.H. O'Connor (as "Aristotle"), Carrie E. Perkins (as "Mirabel"), Nina Randall (as "La Rouleuse"), Mollie Sherwood (as "Rosalie"), Maida Van Buren (as "Rigolette"), Mai Walker (as "Lieutenant Drachenfels"). Produced by George W. Lederer.
- (1902) Stage Play: The Defender. Musical. Music by Charles Dennee. Lyrics by Allen Lowe. Based on material by Allen Lowe. Musical Director: George P. Towle. Additional music by Andy Louis and George Evans. Featuring songs with lyrics by Ren Shields. Directed by Frank Smithson. Herald Square Theatre: 3 Jul 1902- 23 Aug 1902 (60 performances). Cast: George Alison, Aimee Ashmore, Florence Averell, Emma Carus, Alexander Clark, Gilbert Clayton, Harry Davenport, Paula Edwardes, Peggy Edwardes, Edith Eldridge, Effie Halsey, Mayme Kelso, Norma Lille, Richie Ling, Sandol Milliken, Harry Murray, Kitty Pope, Blanche Ring [Broadway debut], Grace Spencer, Violet Staley, Eleanore Telford, Gordon Tomkins, Charles Wayne, Joe Worthington. Produced by A.H. Chamberlyn.
- (1904) Stage Play: The Good Old Summertime. Musical/farce. Based on material by Ren Shields. Lyrics by Ren Shields. Music by George Evans. Directed by Frank Smithson. Haverly's 14th Street Theatre: 8 Feb 1904- 20 Feb 1904 (17 performances). Produced by Shea Amusement Company.
- (1906) Stage Play: His Honor the Mayor. Musical comedy. Music by Julian Edwards and Alfred E. Aarons. Additional music by Gus Edwards and Cobb and Shields )Ren Shields). Book by Charles J. Campbell and Ralph M. Skinner. Additional lyrics by Gus Edwards and Cobb and Shields. Lyrics by Charles J. Campbell and Ralph M. Skinner. Directed by J.S. Murray. New York Theatre (moved to The Wallack's Theatre from 30 Jul 1906- close): 28 May 1906- 25 Aug 1906 (104 performances). Cast: Marion Alexander (as "Chorus"), Grace Andrews (as "Chorus"), John Belton (as "Chorus"), Rose Berg (as "Chorus"), Ella Bernard (as "Chorus"), Rose Bird (as "Chorus"), W.W. Black (as "Reddy Samson, a cowboy"), Leon Botsford (as "Chorus/Josef, waiter at LaCarte's Hotel"), Julia Burns (as "Chorus"), Jessie Cameron (as "Chorus"), Jessie Carr (as "Chorus"), Camille Darnton (as "Chorus"), Lilly DeGrasse (as "Chorus"), Nellie DeGrasse (as "Chorus"), Arthur Earnest (as "Jack Thayer, Prebble's chum"), E.R. Edwards (as "Chorus"), Archie Falk (as "Chorus"), Bessie Fennell (as "Chorus"), Clarence Harvey (as "Hon. Teddy Todd, Mayor of Kankakee"), Elizabeth Hawman (as "Chorus"), Louise Hawman (as "Chorus"), Mabel Hollins (as "Daisy, a milliner girl"), Helen Howard (as "Chorus"), Alice Keese (as "Chorus"), Harry Kelly (as "Deacon Flood, May's father"), Beatrice Liddell (as "Chorus"), Lora Lieb (as "Marjorie Vayne, Mrs. Vayne's stepdaughter"), Birdice MacLaughlin (as "Chorus"), Eleanor Mansfield (as "Chorus"), Eva Marlow (as "Chorus"), Dorothy Marlowe (as "Chorus"), Eva Marsh (as "Chorus"), Kitty Marsh (as "Chorus"), Madelyn Marshall (as "May Flood"), Florence May (as "Chorus"), Seppie McNeil (as "Chorus"), Edward Melandy (as "Chorus"), J.S. Murray (as "R. LaCarte, Manager of LaCarte's Hotel"), Anna Nelson (as "Chorus"), Fletcher Norton (as "T. Chesterfield Prebble, an Anglicized native of Kankakee"), Kitty Parks (as "Chorus"), Hal Pearson (as "Chorus/Dauber Brush"), Isobel Plunkett (as "Chorus"), Carrie Poltz (as "Chorus"), John H. Pratt (as "Captain Rudolph Zitzky, of the Royal Hungarian Hussars"), Blanche Ring (as "Katrinka"), Ada Robertson (as "Chorus"), Charles Robinson (as "Chorus"), Lois Tabor (as "Mrs. Vayne, a young widow"), Catherine Tanner (as "Lieutenant Schnipp, of the Royal Hungarian Hussars/Chorus"), Jessie Thompson (as "Chorus"), Ocia Thompson (as "Chorus"), Helen Turner (as "Chorus"), E.E. Van Rensselaer (as "Solomon Syphonstein, a Parisian marriage-broker"), Fred Walton (as "Chorus"), Marion Whitney (as "Chorus"). Produced by Alfred E. Aarons.
- (1906) Stage Play: His Honor the Mayor. Musical comedy (revival). Music by Julian Edwards and Alfred E. Aarons and Cobb and Shields (Ren Shields). Wallack's Theatre: 17 Sep 1906- 29 Sep 1906 (16 performances). Cast: E.R. Edwards, Clarence Harvey, Harry Kelly, Lora Lieb, Claire Maentz, Madelyn Marshall, J.S. Murray, Fletcher Norton. Produced by Alfred E. Aarons.
- (1907) Stage Play: His Honor the Mayor. Musical comedy (revival). Music by Julian Edwards and Alfred E. Aarons and Cobb and Shields (Ren Shields). Lyrics by Charles J. Campbell and R.M. Skinner. Additional lyrics by Gus Edwards and Cobb and Shields. Book by Charles J. Campbell and R.M. Skinner. Musical Director: Daniel Dore. Directed by J.K. Adams. Circle Theatre: 25 Nov 1907- 7 Dec 1907 (17 performances). Produced by Alfred E. Aarons.
- (1916) Stage Play: The Big Show. Musical. Music by Raymond Hubbell. Book by R.H. Burnside. Lyrics by John L. Golden. Musical Director: Raymond Hubbell. Additional music by Frank Leighton, Bert Leighton, Max Darewski and Julius Einodshofer. Additional lyrics by Ren Shields [posthumous credit] and C.H. Bovill. Directed by R.H. Burnside. Hippodrome Theatre: 31 Aug 1916- 5 May 1917 (425 performances). Cast: Charles Ahearn [final Broadway role], Gilbert M. 'Broncho Billy' Anderson [credited as Max Aronson], Mr. Bain, Jack Bart, Enzo Bozano, Paul Briant, Walter Briant, Mlle. Brunova, Mlle. Butzova, Miss Caine, James Carty, Addie Clark, Mlle. Collinet, J.P. Coombs, Marie Corty, Natalie Dagwell, Ellen Dallerup, Emil Davis, George Davis, Johnny Davis, Dippy Diers, Mlle. Doganova, M. Domislavski, Elm City Four, Stanley Ferguson, Hanny Frick, Rosa Gebauer, Miss Georges, Dixie Gerard, James Graham, Mlle. Grassova, Fred Gregory, Mlle. Griffova, Robert Gross, Bobbie Hale, George Hermann, M. Hubart, David Irwin, Miss Johnson, Mat Keefe, George Kerner, Emma Kiyo, Miss. Kollhofer, Peter Ladella, Tony Ladella, W.G. Ladella, Mlle. Leggierova, Bert Leighton, Frank Leighton, Mlle. Lindovskaja, Emanuel List, Mariette Lorette, Adelaide Lorrett, William Lorrimer, James Mack, Blanche Marci, Georges Marck, William Maxwell, Miss Meerest, Miss Melville, Una Merkel [Broadway debut], Albert Metzetti, Charles Metzetti, Leon Metzetti, Otto Metzetti, Sylvester Metzetti, Happy Milke, Beverly Miller, John Miller, Phyllis Miller, Messr. Montes, Miss Moore, Miss Moran, Mlle. Moskvina, Miss Mullar, Mlle. Myersa, Walter Nelson, Howard Nichols, Millard Nichols, Norman Nichols, Miss Norman, Margaret ONeil, B.K. Okita, Mr. Oliveroff, Marion O'Neil, Haru Onuki, Miss Overlack, Mr. Parker, Joseph Parsons, Anna Pavlova, Stefa S. Plaskovietyka, Cathleen Pope, Mr. Poppelow, Frances Pritchard, J.R. Proctor, Gus Proppe, Charles Ravel, Bob Reano, William C. Reid, Robert Rosaire, Dave Rosen, Hilda Ruckerts, Eddie Russell, Frank Scalish, Barbara Schaefer, Katie Schmidt, Mlle. Shelton, Al Silverman, Mlle. Smallers, W.G. Stewart, Mlle. Stuart, Miss Sully, Fred Sweeney, Mlle. Tastova, Henry Taylor, The El Rey Sisters, The Four Singers, The Six Brown Brothers, Toto, John Tweedley, M. Vajinski, Mlle. Verins, Mr. Veseloff, Alexandere Volinine, Austin Walsh, Miss. Walters, Harry Wardell, Martha Weidemann, C. Weikusat, M. Weikusat, Miss. Welden, Gus Wicke, George Wilson, Billy Woolfe, Miss Worm, Miss Wruck, Letty Yorke, Yoshie and Nobu, Messr. Zalewski. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.
- (1917) Stage Play: Miss 1917. Musical revue. Music by Victor Herbert and Jerome Kern. Book by Guy Bolton and P.G. Wodehouse. Musical Direction by Robert Hood Bowers. Additional lyrics by Benny Davis [earliest Broadway credit], Hugh Morton, Ren Shields, Harry B. Smith, Edgar Smith, Otto A. Harbach, James O'Dea, Henry Martyn Blossom, Stanley Murphy, Bob Cole [credited as Robert Cole], J. Rosamond Johnson [credited as J. Rosamond Johnson], Joseph McCarthy, Gus Van, Joe Schenck and C. Francis Reisner. Additional music by Gustav Kerker, Bob Cole, George Evans, John Stromberg, Karl Hoschna, Henry I. Marshall, Harry Tierney, J. Rosamond Johnson, Joseph McCarthy, Gus Van, Joseph Schenck, Edward Hutchinson and Billy Baskette. Choreographed by Adolph Bohm. Directed by Ned Wayburn. Century Theatre: 5 Nov 1917- 5 Jan 1918 (72 performances). Cast: Geraldine Alexander, Diana Allen, Effie Allen, Walter Baker, Emil Barth, Louis Baum, Margie Bell, Mike Bell, Paul M. Bell, Adolph Bohm, May Borden, Polly Bowman, Kitty Boylan, James Bradley, Alma Braham, Rene Braham, Joe Brennan, Paul Briant, William Briant, Elizabeth Brice, Irene Castle, Lawrence Clark, Gladys Coburn, Cecelia Cullen, Arthur Cunningham, Peggy Dana, Marion Davies, Bessie McCoy Davis, Semone D'Herlys, Zitelka Dolores, Frank Duball, Fred DuBall, Arthur Elson, Herbert Fields [Broadway debut], Lew Fields, Pearl Franklin, Lottie Franklyn, Marie Frawley, William Fuller, Elizabeth Gardiner, Dan Gordon, Emeline Gorman, Emmet Grant, Emma Haig, Betty Hale, Marshall Hall, Pauline Hall, Betty Hamilton, Minnie Harrison, Flo Hart, Irene Hayes, Ruth Heil, Hilda Hirsch, Leonard Howard, May Irving, Leavitt James, Agnes Jepson, Amelia Johnson, Charles Jones, Peggy Hopkins Joyce, Nicholas Kane, Harry Kelly, Charles King, Myrtle King, Raymond Klages, Dorothy Klewer, Joe Knoffer, Leonore Kohler, Cecil Lean, Margit Leeraas, Rita Leeraas, Lois Leigh, Frank Leonard, May Leslie, Gladys Loftus, Jack Lynch, Cecile Markle, Albertine Marlowe, James Marr, Evangeline Marshalck, Mauresette, Vera Maxwell, Cleo Mayfield, Addison Mead, Helen Mooney, Margaret Morris, Vivian Morrison, Elizabeth Morton, Rosella Myers, Alla Nova, Stephen O'Rourke, Olive Osborne, John Parks, Ann Pennington [Broadway debut], Kathryn Perry, Tot Qualters, James Quinn, Flora Revalles, Eugene Revere, Charles Root, Dolores Rose, Ethel Rough, Bert Savoy, Joe Schenck, Vivienne Segal, Miss Selskaya, Frank Sharp, William Shelley, Mildred Shelly, Yvonne Shelton, Juana Sheppard, Joseph Sparks, Irene Spencer, Murray Starr, Natasha Stephanova, Miss Sterling, Gus Stevenson, Anna Stone, Ivan Tarasov, Lilyan Tashman, Andrew Tombes, Ira Uhr, Alexander Umanski, Tortola Valencia, Gus Van, Miss Vernon, Winnie Ward, Edith Warren, John Warren, George White, Mark White, Ruby Wilbur, Mack Williams, Martha Wood, Rita Zalmani. Produced by Charles B. Dillingham and Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
- (1930) Stage Play: Kilpatrick's Old-Time Minstrels. Musical/minstrel. Featuring songs by George Evans, James Weldon Johnson [final Broadway credit during lifetime], Banks Winter, Theo A. Metz, R.C. MacPherson, Elmer Bowman and Chris Smith. Featuring songs with lyrics by Bob Cole, Ren Shields, Banks Winter, Theo A. Metz, R.C. MacPherson, Elmer Bowman and Chris Smith. Source Material Edited by Henry Myers. Musical Staging by Donald Heywood. Directed by Jesse A. Shipp. Royale Theatre: 19 Apr 1930- 26 Apr 1930 (9 performances). Cast: George Battles, Tom Bethel, Harrison Blackburn, Thomas H. Brandon, J. Mardo Brown, John W. Cooper, William Cornish, Louis Craddock, Amon Davis, Rudolph Dawson, Billy Demont, Sidney Easten, William Hart, Donald Hayes, Bert Howell, "Jarahal", J. Lewis Johnson, John La Rue, James K. Love, Stanford McKissick, Dan C. Michaels, J. W. Mobley, George Myrick, George W. Nixon, R.C. Raines, Henry Troy. Produced by Thomas Kilpatrick.
- [Posthumous] Tintypes (1980).
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