Young's previous wife had been the songwriter/lyricist Rida Johnson Young.
Clara Kimball Young as Fat Pearl (edited from Wages of Sin) (archive footage) (uncredited)
Powers spent many years as a Broadway star in musical comedies and dramas, and had previously appeared in over 70 silent films from 1911 to 1917 opposite such actors as Florence Turner, Harry T. Morey, Clara Kimball Young, Alma Taylor and John Bunny.
He created the role of Svengali in the play Trilby in 1895 which he played on screen in 1915 opposite Clara Kimball Young.
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In 1912, he appeared in the film Henry VIII as Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, alongside co-stars being Clara Kimball Young, Julia Swayne Gordon and Hal Reid.
She chose to film another adaptation of Max Marcin and Charles Guernon's play as it had been filmed once before in 1919 starring Clara Kimball Young and was a resounding success on Broadway.