He was joined in management of the company by C. B. Westmacott, then in 1895 by William Anderson at the Alexandra Theatre, Melbourne, employing scenery by John Hennings.
They played Landeck's My Jack and A King of Crime, Maskery and Callender's True as Steel, Holcroft'sThe Broad Arrow, Harvey's The World Against Her, Wilton Jones' A Yorkshire Lass, Reynolds' The Shamrock and the Rose,[a] Charles Darrell's When London Sleeps (later a movie).
Actors they engaged included Maggie Moore, Frank Crossley, Ethel Buckley, Eugenie Duggan, Edwin Campbell, and of course took many starring parts themselves.
He died of double pneumonia at Dr O'Hara's private hospital in Melbourne, having travelled to that city to see his daughter Beatrice Denver Holloway play the lead in D'Ennery and Cormon's The Two Orphans.
Alice was a daughter of John Hayward Deorwyn (c. 1823 – 6 August 1888), actor and founding member of Melbourne's original Garrick Club.