 Prominent among his musical comedy roles were Papillon in "The Duchess of Dantzic" (1903), which he created in both London (1903) and New York (1905); Hugh Meredith in "The Belle of Mayfair" (1906), with his sister Louie in the cast; the lead in Leo Fall's "The Merry Farmer" ("Der fidele Bauer"; 1907) and Jasomir in Fall's "Princess Caprice" (1912).He appeared in "The Laughing Husband", the English version of the operetta "Der lachende Ehemann" by Edmund Eysler, in both London (1913) and New York (1914).He was Ali Baba in the long-running "Chu Chin Chow" (beginning in 1916, he starred in the role for over 2,000 performances); a similar role in "Cairo" (1921) and Franz Schubert in "Lilac Time" (1922–1924).