 After appearing in productions of "The Three Musketeers", "Secret Service" and "The Christian", he left Australia in 1906 for England and was engaged firstly in a production at Margate on the Kent coast, before appearing on the London stage at the Criterion Theatre in a one-acter.He came to the notice of Miss Ellen Terry with his Pippy in the "Lemonade Boy" (October 1906).She hired him in January 1907 for her tour of America with "Nance Oldfield" (as Alexander Oldworthy) and "Captain Brassbound's Conversion" (Osman).