sentences:  He played Spalding in the London production for a week, to give the regular performer, W. S. Penley, a brief holiday during its long West End run, and then sailed for Sydney, having secured the Australasian production rights to "The Private Secretary".His tour of over 16,000 miles through Australia and New Zealand with the play "proved the greatest success ever scored in the Antipodes".During his first visit to Australia, he also appeared as the Lord Chancellor in "Iolanthe" and as John Wellington Wells in the first Australian production of "The Sorcerer" in 1886 and as the Learned Judge in "Trial".