 They performed at both Ogden's Orpheum Theatre and at various other locations spread from Salt Lake City to Seattle.After having worked on Broadway, he made his film debut in a 1935 adaptation of "The Three Musketeers".He later played a different role in a 1939 comedy version of the story, starring Don Ameche as D'Artagnan and the Ritz Brothers as three dimwitted lackeys who are forced to substitute for the musketeers, who have drunk themselves into a stupor.