 '); in 1889 he took the lead in the sequel, "Doris", and later that year he starred as Ralph Rodney in "The Red Hussar".He was chosen by Sir Arthur Sullivan to create the title role in the opera "Ivanhoe" in January 1891, at the opening of the Royal English Opera House (Palace Theatre) – Shaw called him 'a robust and eupeptic Ivanhoe', who 'gets beaten because he is obviously some three stone over his proper fighting weight'