Walter Huston as "Dodsworth"

April 1934 Lusha Nelson
Walter Huston as "Dodsworth"
April 1934 Lusha Nelson

On leave from the Hollywood which filched him from us some years ago, Walter Huston has returned to Broadway in the title role of Dodsworth, Sidney Howard's adaptation of the Sinclair Lewis book. Born in Toronto, Canada, in 1884, Huston was for twelve years a song-and-dance man in vaudeville. He made his dramatic debut with Lillian Gish in a melodrama entitled In Convict Stripes. Broadway later saw him in Desire Under the Elms, The Barker and other hits, before be went into the movies, where he appeared variously as a newspaper man, Abraham Lincoln, a submarine captain and a prizefighter's manager. Built on a rugged scale—he was once a professional hockey player—Huston is impressively masculine in appearance, and his work is distinguished by a singular honesty