run of Zwangwill’s Leah Kleschna at the Manhattan Theatre. With Minnie Fisk in the lead role and Cartwright playing the manipulative Kleshna, the play was a critical and commercial success, running for 131 performances. Less popular was Cartwright's attempt at writing. The production of The Proud Laird, a play he had co-written with Cosmo Hamilton, closed after being described by The New York Times as "muckle ado aboot naething’. Other successful plays in the tour were Zwangwill's Merely Mary Ann and Nurse Marjorie. He returned to Broadway for the 1906-7 season and in 1910-11 toured California in David Belasco's production of The Lily, taking in the Clunie Theatre in Sacramento and the Mason Theatre in Los Angeles, before arriving back in England towards the end of 1911. Death On 3 April 1912, while performing in Chester Bailey Fernald's play 98.9, Cartwright suffered a stroke which forced him into retirement. He died of acute bronchitis and syncope at his home in Swiss Cottage on 25 May 1915, survived by his wife Eva and their daughter Edith. He is buried at St Mary's Catholic Cemetery, Kensal Green. Portraits on other websites Pencil drawing by Percy Frederick Seaton Spence at the National Portrait Gallery. Photograph in the J. Willis Sayre Collection of Theatrical Photographs held by the University of Washington Libraries. References 1851 births 1915 deaths English male stage actors Stonyhurst College