Kinsey Peile

[5] He joined the company of the actor-manager George Alexander, first on tour and then at its London base, the St James's Theatre, appearing in Liberty Hall and other productions, including the premiere of The Importance of Being Earnest, in which he created the role of Lane.[6] Peile's post-war roles included Otho in the Čapeks' The Insect Play in 1923, alongside the young John Gielgud, Pauncefort Quentin in Noël Coward's The Vortex (1924),[n 3] and Richard Twining in Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence (1925).His works written for the West End included Solomon's Twins, 1897; An Interrupted Honeymoon, 1899; Lyre and Lancet, 1902; The Man Who Was, 1903; Money and the Girl, 1910; Bill, Twelve o'clock, and The Shooting Star, all 1912; The Pink Nightgown, 1913; and Who Laughs Last, 1919.[9] In the view of The Era, Peile was best known for his adaptation of Rudyard Kipling's story "The Man Who Was", which Herbert Beerbohm Tree mounted with considerable success at His Majesty's in 1903 and revived frequently.[11] Peile appeared in films, including The Face at the Window (1920), Three Live Ghosts (1922), The Presumption of Stanley Hay, MP (1925), Settled Out of Court (1926), The Vortex (1928), The Burgomaster of Stilemonde (1929) and High Society (1932).

young white men, clean shaven, one in 1890s morning dress and the other in butler's outfit — Peile, right, as Lane with Allan Aynesworth as Algernon in the premiere of *The Importance of Being Earnest* , 1895

cover of a vocal score with painting of a young woman in Egyptian costume — *The Belle of Cairo* (1896): music and lyrics by Peile

black and white drawing of a man in evening dress with a bust of the author Rudyard Kipling — Caricature by Max Beerbohm of Peile as adapter of Rudyard Kipling (1903) ^{[

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