 On stage he directed productions such as the drama "Reprise" (1935), the comedies "Sun Kissed" (1937) and "The Greatest Show on Earth" (1938), the melodrama "Brown Danube" (1939), and the drama "Land's End" (1946).He was a producer for while at Elitch's Theater, where he met his future wife Helen Bonfils, whom he married in 1936.The couple lived in the Wood-Morris-Bonfils House in Denver.