Mace Greenleaf
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Mace Greenleaf was an American stage and silent film actor.
with James K. Hackett
and Bertha Galland
staged at the Criterion Theatre in 1900. Later that year he played Myrtle May’s lover in a road production of The Parish Priest with Daniel Sully
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Mace Greenleaf over the first decade of the new century played leading roles in stock companies on both coasts and Middle America. He returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the Prince of Wales
in the romantic musical, Edmond Burke. In 1911 he joined the fledgling motion picture industry where he would appear in at least eighteen films over the last year or so of his life.
, and was remembered at the time for an affair she had while married to her first husband that ended with the suicide of her lover. Lucy Banning was known as something of a free spirit and often scandalized “polite society” with the number of men in her life. She left Greenleaf in 1910 for the son of a prominent judge.
Early Life
Mace Greenleaf was born at Dixfield, Maine the only child of Charles Ward and Mary (née Eustis) Greenleaf. Charles Greenleaf was a native of Massachusetts and supported his family employed as a surveyor.Career
Greenleaf’s first important role came in the late 1890s playing Herbert, the King’s Forrester in stock productions of The Prisoner of Zenda and its companion piece, Rupert of Hentzau In 1898 he played Mr. Hunston in Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s play Trelawny of the "Wells" that opened at the Lyceum Theatre in New York on November 22, 1898. His next Broadway performance was in The Pride of JennicoThe Pride of Jennico
The Pride of Jennico is a four-act play based on the book by the same name from Agnes and Egerton Castle published in 1897 by the Macmillan Company....
with James K. Hackett
James Keteltas Hackett
James Keteltas Hackett was an American actor and manager.-Life:He was the son of James Henry Hackett, a comedian and celebrated Falstaff. His elderly father died age 71 when Hackett was just two years old thus never living to see Hackett grow to an adult...
and Bertha Galland
Bertha Galland
Bertha Galland was an American dramatic stage actress remembered for her romantic roles.-Early life:She was the daughter of Berthold Galland and the former Anna Miller Hawley...
staged at the Criterion Theatre in 1900. Later that year he played Myrtle May’s lover in a road production of The Parish Priest with Daniel Sully
Daniel Sully
Daniel Sully , born Daniel Sullivan, was an American circus performer, stage actor and playwright, who gained popularity during the latter years of the nineteenth century.-Life and career:...
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Mace Greenleaf over the first decade of the new century played leading roles in stock companies on both coasts and Middle America. He returned to Broadway in 1905 to play the Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales
Prince of Wales is a title traditionally granted to the heir apparent to the reigning monarch of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and the 15 other independent Commonwealth realms...
in the romantic musical, Edmond Burke. In 1911 he joined the fledgling motion picture industry where he would appear in at least eighteen films over the last year or so of his life.
Marriage
In September, 1906 Greenleaf married Lucy (aka Lucie) Banning in Santa Anna, California. Banning came from a very wealthy family, they owned Catalina IslandSanta Catalina Island, California
Santa Catalina Island, often called Catalina Island, or just Catalina, is a rocky island off the coast of the U.S. state of California. The island is long and across at its greatest width. The island is located about south-southwest of Los Angeles, California. The highest point on the island is...
, and was remembered at the time for an affair she had while married to her first husband that ended with the suicide of her lover. Lucy Banning was known as something of a free spirit and often scandalized “polite society” with the number of men in her life. She left Greenleaf in 1910 for the son of a prominent judge.