Henry Miller, Actor, Manager

MILLER, Henry Actor, was born in London, England, in 1859, but was reared and educated in Toronto, Canada, where, when he was a youth, he first was led to take up a stage career by reading an article on the early struggles of Henry Irving. At the age of fifteen he began to study elocution, and for the next four years he devoted himself to acquiring all the stage training he could get. He made his first stage appearance just before he was nineteen in a stock company performance of "Macbeth" at a Toronto theatre. Before the end of the season he was playing the leading juvenile roles in classic drama with this company. In 1878, he joined Modjeska's company, playing, as did Robert Mantell at that time in the same company, general utility roles. His next engagement was with Adelaide Neilson, and in two seasons with her company he played, among other roles, those of Peter in "Measure for Measure," Paris in "Romeo and Juliet," Arviragus in " Cymbeline, " and Oliver in "As You Like It." After a brief engagement with Ada Cavendish he was engaged by Augustin Daly and made his first appearance with that manager in "Odette" when that play was first produced at Daly's Theatre on February 6, 1882. Ada Rehan, James Lewis and John Drew were in the same cast. He left Mr. Daly to join A. M. Palmer's forces at the Madison Square Theatre, where he appeared as Herbert in " Young Mrs. Winthrop." After being leading man for Minnie Maddern for a time and playing Eric Thorndike with Agnes Booth Schoeffel in a special production of Arthur W. Pinero's " The Squire, " Mr. Miller was engaged by Daniel Frohman as leading juvenile of the original Lyceurn Theatre Company. There he appeared as Robert Gray in " The Wife," Clement Hale in "Sweet Lavender," and Randolph in "The Marquise." His appearance as Kerchival West in Bronson Howard's " Shenandoah " was followed by his engagement by Charles Frohman as leading man of the Empire Theatre Stock Company, and there he made his mark as Mr. Brabazon in " Sowing the Wind, " Mr. Owen in " Liberty Hall, " J. Folliet Treherne in "Gudgeons," Rudolph in "Bohemia," and David Remon in " The Masqueraders." He first appeared as a star in 1896 in the original production of "Heartsease," by Charles Klein and J. I. C. Clarke. In 1898 he again starred in "The Master", be Stuart Ogilvie. In the fall of 1899 he created the leading role in "The Only Way, " a dramatization of Charles Dickens's " Tale of Two Cities, " by Freeman Wills, which was produced for the first time at the Herald Square Theatre, New York, on September 16. Mr. Miller has recently become a manager, and has been associated as joint star with Margaret Anglin. The season of 1905-6 he appeared in "Grierson's Way, " " Zira, " and "Young Fernald."

The fall season of 1906 he produced "The Great Divide, " a drama by Williarn Vaughn Moody, which opened the Princess Theatre, New York, on October 3. He continued to act this play the seasons of 1906-7-8. In 1909, he starred in Moody's The Faith Healer. He opposed the unionization of actors and the formation of the Actors' Equity Association.