A reviewer wrote: "Rouble, the generous, wrong-headed millionaire, always fighting for his mistress, and always offending her, was admirably dressed and played by Mr Walter Lacy, who is a new addition to the company.

His ludicrous distress, tempered in the oddest manner by a sort of cold nonchalance, made up one of those characteristic inconsistencies which stand out in the memory from the level of ordinary stage routine.... His performance of Chateau Renaud in The Corsican Brothers... was a great instance of his care and judgment in a part quite out of his usual line, and in which he had all the disadvantage of appearing after an excellent predecessor.

"[4][2] Other parts played at this theatre included John of Gaunt in Richard II, Edmund in King Lear, and Lord Trinket in The Jealous Wife.

In June 1860 he was, at the Lyceum Theatre, the Marquis of Saint Evremont in a dramatization of A Tale of Two Cities, and at Drury Lane in October 1864 was Cloten to Helena Faucit's Imogen in Cymbeline.

A reviewer wrote: "Colonel Damas exhibited a nature gentler and more subdued than that with which most actors have been wont to invest that worthy soldier; yet there were still distinctly to be traced those enduring remains of a skilled and careful training which neither time nor long disuse are ever able wholly to efface.