Horace Mills
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Horace Mills (1 September 1864 – 14 August 1941) was a British singer, actor and dramatist who specialised in playing pantomime dames in the early 20th-century.[1]
Born in Portsea in Portsmouth in 1864,[2] he was the oldest of six children born to Elizabeth Ann née Jolly and Herbert James Mills, a Colonel in the Ordnance Supply Board.[3]
He co-wrote the book for the musical play Miss Esmeralda (1887) to music by Meyer Lutz and first performed at the Gaiety Theatre in London.[4]
His stage appearances include Bertie Fitz Bunnyon in As Large as Life (1890) at Terry's Theatre,[5] Remendado in Carmen up to Data (1890) at the Gaiety Theatre[6] Tom Edge in Zephyr (1891) at the Avenue Theatre,[7] touring in The Circus Girl (1897),[8] Widow Twankey in Aladdin at the Prince’s Theatre in Manchester (1900) with Ada Reeve and G. P. Huntley,[9] in the Comedy Oddity ‘Mashing the Misses’ (1904) at the Argyle Music Hall in Birkenhead,[10] Adolphus Dudd in The Girl Behind the Counter (1906),[11] Valet in The Hon'ble Phil with Denise Orme and G. P. Huntley at the Hicks Theatre (1908),[12] and Swaak in A Persian Princess (1909).
