He acted in Oscar Wilde's play, "A Woman of No Importance," at the Savoy Theatre and Streatham Hill Theatre in London, England with Isobel Jeans, Jean Cadell, Athene Seyler, Peter Barkworth, Nora Swinburne, and Paul Anstee in the cast. Michael Benthall was director.
He and his wife moved back to England permanently in 1936, partly due to threats to kidnap their children. At this time the entire movie colony in Hollywood was alarmed at kidnapping threats, and attempts increased. For a while he slept with a revolver under his pillow, and both his children were taken to school each day by a private guard their family shared with Ann Harding.
