Hills by Marah Ellis Ryan, supporting Edwin Arden. In the fall of that year, he left Ethel Barrymore and appeared first in The Step-sister by Charles Klein and then was engaged by Harrison Grey Fiske to support his wife, Minnie Maddern, in Ibsens's Rosmersholm. In 1908, he toured the Pacific coast with The Thief by Henri Bernstein, playing the role originally played by Kyrle Bellew. The season of 1908–09, he rejoined Barrymore's company, playing Paradine Fouldes in Lady Frederick by W. Somerset Maugham. He also appeared with the likes of Douglas Fairbanks and William Garwood in 1908. McRae was among the summer stock cast at Elitch Theatre for five seasons—1904, 1905, 1911, 1912, and 1914. In 1911 he had just completed a run with Blanche Bates in Nobody's Widow in New York's Hudson Theater when he returned to Elitch's for another summer. In a review of McRae's performance in that summer's An American Widow, a Rocky Mountain News drama critic wrote: "Mr. McRae is perhaps not at his best this week, except in his love scenes. As a lover he is always convincing." McRae's love for Elitch Gardens, and especially for his friend Mary Elitch Long, was clear when Mary's leading man for the summer of 1914 was unable to appear at the last minute, so she contacted McRae. "I wired Mr. McRae a very urgent plea to come to my rescue. He was a prime favorite in Denver and I knew him to be broadminded enough to waive formalities. I knew he would help me out if it were possible. His answering telegram proved the man. My message was received the day before he expected to sail for a much needed vacation in Europe. I received his answer at once: 'Of course I will come. There is no other spot on earth that would lure me from my vacation in Europe. I consider it a privilege to play at the Gardens because I love the place, and all actors feel as I do.'" After making his reputation acting in various Broadway plays, he moved into film in 1914 starring in about ten films until his retirement in 1922. Personal life McRae married famed illustrator/cartoonist Nell Brinkley and on December 15, 1923 she gave birth to their only child, Bruce Robert McRae III. Brinkley and McRae later divorced and he died at his home on City Island, Bronx, on May