Jerome Phillips Uhl

The family's residence in Paris was next to the home of Auguste Rodin, and at the age of four Jerome Phillips Uhl was a model for one of his sculptures of Joan of Arc.

[2] One of his earliest works as an illustrator was as an artist for the 1901 children's Dear Days: A Story of Washington School Life which was published by Henry T. Coates & Co. in Philadelphia.

[2] Others he painted included the actor David Warfield, humorist Irvin S. Cobb, opera singer Lawrence Tibbett, and president Franklin D.

[15] In 1912 and 1913 he portrayed General Villefranche in the Alfred G. Robyn and Henry Blossom musical All for the Ladies on tour and on Broadway at the Lyric Theatre; a work starring the comedian Sam Bernard.

[19] The following January 1914 he was seen at that theatre as Benvolio in Charles Gounod's Roméo et Juliette with Orville Harrold and Béatrice La Palme in the title parts.

[20] Later that year he joined the Aborn English Opera Company with whom he toured the United States as Sparafucile in Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto,[21] and Peter the broom maker in Engelbert Humperdinck's Hansel and Gretel.

[14] After this he was a contracted singer with the Chicago Grand Opera Company with whom he portrayed the role of the Herald in the world premiere of Sergei Prokofiev's The Love for Three Oranges on December 30, 1921.