Warner Gault was a theater and film actor during the vaudevillian era. Gault is best known for his roles in the 1912 operatic comedy including: “The Merry Countess”, the 1915 musical comedy “Stop! Look! Listen!”, the 1919 musical revue “The Greenwich Village Follies”, 1920 musical revue “The Broadway Whirl”, and the 1929 film “My Wife”. In this portrait Gault is fully costumed, wearing a dark Spanish cloak, head scarf and dark cordovan hat. Gault faces the camera with a challenging stare, cigarette dangling from his lips and slight perspiration on his skin. Gault is captured from the shoulders up, as he turns his head, and gazes slightly upward. The backdrop is completely black, allowing for Gault’s countenance to become strikingly clear amid the dark atmosphere. The smoke from the cigarette is highly accentuated in this setting.