He retired in 1900 but came out of retirement in 1907 to play Jason successfully in The Bondman, produced by Bland Holt.
Another source of income for McGowan when not boxing was appearing and touring with the Bland Holt Dramatic Company.
Her father was the English-born actor George Sutton Titheradge, and the eleven-year-old Madge had already done stage work with Australia's Brough-Boucicault and Bland Holt companies when the family returned to Britain in 1898.
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