(Sir) Anton Dolin (Sydney Francis Patrick Chippendall Healey-Kay, 1904-1983) by Constantine (Constantine Hassalevris, 1913-1982, who also photographed under the moniker Spartan of Hollywood).
Albert Carroll last appeared on Broadway in Billy Rose’s 1944-45 review SEVEN LIVELY ARTS at the Ziegfeld Theatre. This was a prestige program, with music and lyrics by Cole Porter, book by George S. Kaufman and Ben Hecht, and ballet music by Igor Stravinsky.
Dion Titheradge (1889-1934), Laurette Taylor (Loretta Helen Cooney, 1883-1946), and Philip Merivale in THE HARP OF LIFE (1916-17), a play written by Miss Taylor’s husband J. Hartley Manners. Photo by White Studios
Carroll and Merivale appeared in another Henderson production, THE DUKE IN DARKNESS (1944): Carroll played the Count d’Aublaye, Merivale the Duke of Laterraine, and Raymond Burr appeared as Voulain.
Estelle Winwood (Estelle Ruth Goodwin, 1883-1984) in HELEN WITH THE HIGH HAND (1917). Photo by James Abbe (1883-1973)
Carroll played Slender in Estelle Winwood and (her husband) Robert Henderson’s production of THE MERRY WIVES OF WINDSOR, which ran for four performances at the Empire Theatre in April 1938; Winwood appeared as Mistress Margaret Page. (Lex Barker was a member of the Ensemble.)
Eleanor Phelps (1907-2001) and Blaine Cordner (1895-1971) in WE, THE PEOPLE (1933). Photo by Maurice Goldberg (1881-1949)
Like Cagney and Carroll, Blaine Cordner appeared in the 1929 edition of THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES.
James Cagney (1899-1986) in COME FILL THE CUP (1951). Photo by Bert Six (1902-1967)
Cagney and Carroll were members of the 1928 and 1929 GRAND STREET FOLLIES casts.
Grover Burgess (1892-1948) and Jane Kim in the short-lived PEOPLE ON THE HILL (1931). Photo by DeBarron Studio
Burgess and Carroll appeared in THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES of 1926.
Zita Johann (Elizabeth Johann, 1904-1993) and [William] Clark Gable (1901-1960) in MACHINAL (1928). Photo by Vandamm Studio
The first wife of the actor John Houseman, Zita Johann appeared with Albert Carroll in THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES of 1925.
I posted yesterday about Joseph Schildkraut, who played the title role in the Theatre Guild’s production of Henrik Ibsen’s PEER GYNT (1923); Carroll was a dancer as well as Monsieur Ballon, and Helen Westley (Henrietta Remsen Meserole Manney, 1875-1942) was featured as the Troll King’s Daughter. She is shown here in a photograph by Marcia Stein (Marcia Mishkin, 1880?-1927).
Carroll played the part of Jimmy Grupton in MAKERS OF LIGHT (1922). Ian Maclaren was another member of the cast, along with Adrienne Morrison (1883-1940), the wife of Richard Bennett and the mother of Barbara, Constance, and Joan Bennett. This photo, identified as Mrs. Bennett, is by Paul Hansen (1902-2000).
Adrienne Morrison also appeared with Albert Carroll in THE GRAND STREET FOLLIES of 1922 and 1924.
Photo by White Studios
Albert Carroll first appeared on Broadway with the Gertrude Kingston Company in 1916. One of his roles in the repertory program was as Tharrabas in Lord Dunsany’s THE QUEEN’S ENEMIES; George Abbott (1887-1995) appeared as the Twin Duke of Ethiopia.
Irene Lewisohn (1886-1944) and Albert Carroll (1895-1956) in THE ROYAL FANDANGO (1921). Photo by Francis Bruguière (1879-1945)
While not a name to conjure with today, Carroll was an important figure in Manhattan cultural circles a hundred years ago. There is something Zelig-like in the career of this journeyman actor, singer, dancer, diarist, and crossword puzzle author who appeared in the 1931 ZIEGFELD FOLLIES, the last edition produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr.
Ian Maclaren (1875-1952) by White Studios.
A native of Devon, Maclaren made his Broadway début in THE BONNIE BRIER BUSH (1901); a decade later, he supported George Arliss in DISRAELI (1911). (In the aftermath of the TITANIC disaster in April 1912, he organized a benefit performance of HAMLET to mark William Shakespeare’s birthday.) His next Broadway appearance was in THE ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1913.
His later Broadway roles ran the gamut, from a production of Shaw’s ANDROCLES AND THE LION (1915) to THE GREEN RING (1922) and THE LITTLE CLAY CART (1924-25, as Charudatta) with Albert Carroll (“A shampooer who turns monk” in the latter) and Carroll’s frequent co-star Irene Lewisohn. Carroll would appear in the last FOLLIES produced by Florenz Ziegfeld Jr., in 1931.
In films, Maclaren appeared in MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE (1924), a vehicle for Rudolph Valentino; one of his first sound roles was in JOURNEY’S END (1930). By the end of the 1930s, he had slid into uncredited film roles; his last Broadway appearance was in 1941, in Charles Kennedy’s THE SEVENTH TRUMPET.
