 He played Tony Perelli in Edgar Wallace's "On the Spot" and William Marble in "Payment Deferred".He took the last role across the Atlantic and made his United States debut on 24 September 1931, at the Lyceum Theatre.He returned to London for the 1933–34 Old Vic season and was engaged in four Shakespeare roles (as Macbeth, Henry VIII, Angelo in "Measure for Measure" and Prospero in "The Tempest") and also as Lopakhin in "The Cherry Orchard", Canon Chasuble in "The Importance of Being Earnest", and Tattle in "Love for Love".