 He also performed in vaudeville as one half of a double act with Bert Sherry, and toured the US and England.In 1929 he worked in another double act, Scotch and Bourbon, and in 1931 (as Mr. Rae Bourbon) modeled women's dresses in a department store in Bakersfield, California.After receiving a large inheritance, he then wrote a novel, "Hookers", published under the pseudonym of Richard F. Mann.