Career

He also appeared in classic films like, and Around the World in Eighty Days (1956), but the focus of his career was the legitimate stage on both sides of the Atlantic. The couple married in 1918, and when Keane revived Romance in New York in 1921, Sydney made his Broadway debut in the parts. He stayed in New York for over a decade playing classical roles like Mercutio in Romeo and Juliet (1922), Richard Dudgeon in The Devil"s Disciple (1923), the title role in Hamlet (1923), Prince Hal in Henry IV, Participant I (1926), and Petruchio in Taming of the Shrew (1927).