His most famous musical composition is the song "After The Ball",
written in 1892. The song was a flop at first, but became a huge hit
when it was interpolated into the 1891 play, "A Trip To Chinatown",
which was still running at the time. It has remained popular to this
day as an example of the kind of popular music played in the 1890s. It
was interpolated by Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II into their
classic 1927 musical, "Show Boat", to be sung at a climactic, poignant
part in the story, and is always used in stage productions of the show.
It was also used in the 1936 and 1951 film versions, but not in the
1929 part-talkie version.