and Jeptha Grimwade in 200 performances of William Pettit’s A Woman’s Revenge (1 July 1893 – 3 March 1894). In between engagements at the Adelphi, he broke away from playing villains to portray more sympathetic characters. He became involved in producing and directing plays, looking for new works, particularly literary adaptations. In 1894, he directed The Two Orphans (12 May – 18 June 1894) at the Adelphi, with himself in the lead role and with Marion Terry playing one of the sisters. He was also in contact with authors and playwrights, among them Thomas Hardy, with whom he worked in Liverpool, and Oscar Wilde, who asked Cartwright to stage The Duchess of Padua. In 1895, he went into business with the theatre manager Henry Dana, taking out a 21-year lease on the Trafalgar Theatre. His first move was to change the name of the theatre to the Duke of York's, after gaining the approval of the future King George V. Opening with a successful run of Walter Frith’s Her Advocate, he eventually sub-let the theatre to the team behind The Gay Parissienne, which ran for 369 performances. In early 1899, Cartwright sailed to Australia for a second tour at the invitation of Harry Rickards, with a repertory of seven plays for which he had secured the Australian rights. Cartwright had assembled a company from London, this time with Beatrice Lamb as his leading lady. At a farewell dinner before his departure, Charles Wyndham and Max Beerbohm Tree delivered speeches rebuffing Clement Scott’s incendiary views on acting which he had published in January 1898 as 'Does the theatre make for good?' News of the farewell party and its speeches was extensively covered in the media of the day. The tour took in Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney and Perth, before sailing back to England in October 1898. 1900s Cartwright began to concentrate once again on producing and directing plays. Setting up the London Matinee Syndicate Ltd., he solicited investment in theatrical productions with the promise of 10% returns. Investors in this scheme would have seen dividends from Cartwright's staging of English Nell at the Prince of Wales, with Marie Tempest in the title role. It ran for 176 performances, one of which was captured as an early film. Buoyed by these successes, Cartwright travelled to America for the 1904-5 season, having assembled a group of actors including his brother-in-law Edmund Lyons for a