Harry Semels(1887-1946)

Stage: Appeared (as "Ensemble"; Broadway debut) in "The Prima Donna" on Broadway. Musical comedy/opera. Music by Victor Herbert. Libretto by Henry Martyn Blossom. Orchestra under the direction of John Lund. Dresses by Mlle. Elsie de Wolfe. Directed by Fred G. Latham. Knickerbocker Theatre: 30 Nov 1908-30 Jan 1909 (72 performances). Cast: St. Clair Bayfield (as "Col. Dutois"), W.J. Ferguson (as "Monsieur Beaurivage, Athenee's father"), Donald Hall (as "Lt. Fernand Drouillard"), William Harcourt (as "Capt. Bordenave"), Martin Haydon (as "Lt. Gaston de Randal"), Ruth Holt Boucicault (as "The Duchess of Montrose"), Blanche Morrison (as "Countess Helene"), William Raymond (as "Lt. Armand, Count de Fontenne"; Broadway debut), Fritzi Scheff (as "Mlle. Athenee, prima donna of the Opera Comique, Paris"), James E. Sullivan (as "Herr Max Gundelfinger, known as "Pop"), Herbert Ayling (as "Baron de Pompal"), Marie Barry (as "Ensemble"), Josephine Bartlett (as "Mother Justine, proprietress of the cafe"), Phil Branson (as "Signor Giuseppe Ciucicini"), Peter Canova (as "Second waiter"), Robert E. Clark (as "Lieutenant Eugene de Beaumont"), Ada Cooke (as "Ensemble"), Armand Cortes (as "First waiter"), Ailsa Craig (as "Ensemble"), Grace Crowley (as "Ensemble"), Beatrice Cummings (as "Ensemble"), Grace Delmar (as "Mlle. Mathilde, cafe chanteuse"), Albert A. Dennay (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), Gertrude Doremus (as "Mignon, Cafe-concert girl"), Gertrude Douglas (as "Ensemble"), J.S. Duffus (as "Ensemble"), Renee Dyris (as "Mlle. Desiree, Cafe Chanteuse"), Clara Faye (as "Ensemble"), Florence Fisk (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), Luivine Frankel (as "Ensemble"), Marie Franklin (as "Ensemble"), Josephine Gibbons (as "Ensemble"), Sidney Glass (as "Ensemble"), I. Goldman (as "Ensemble"), P. Hahn (as "Ensemble"), Evelyn Hall (as "Ensemble"), Muriel Harmon (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Harrison (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), Leonard Hartley (as "Ensemble"), Genevieve Hawes (as "Ensemble"), Virgil Holmes (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), Evelyn Jackson (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), Fred Killeen (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), La Noveta (as "The Dancer"), Katherine Leslie (as "Ensemble"), Margaret MacKenzie (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"), George W. MacNamara (as "Lt. Prosper Rousseau"), Eleanor Mansfield (as "Ensemble"), Marguerite May (as "Bebe" / Cafe-concert girl"), Evelyn Mitchell (as "Ensemble"), Dottie Moyer (as "Ensemble"), Irene Moyer (as "Ensemble"), W.H. Mytinger (as "Ensemble"), Anna Pelham (as "Ensemble"), Alma Picard (as "Ensemble"), Lillian Randolph (as "Ensemble"), Virginia Reed (as "Clairette, Cafe-concert girl"), Vivian Rose (as "Ensemble"), Margaret Ross (as "Celeste, Cafe-concert girl"), H. Russell (as "Ensemble"), Vina Snyder (as "Ensemble"), Olive Stanley (as "Ensemble"), Katherine Stewart (as "Marquise du Perrifonds"), Emma Tritcheler (as "Ensemble"), Gwendolyn Valentine (as "Margot"), F. Von Gottfried (as "Ensemble"), Herman Walters (as "Ensemble"), Walter White (as "Metropolitan Octette" / "Ensemble"). Produced by Charles B. Dillingham.