 He was in the US again in 1927 and 1930 and again in 1931, when he appeared on stage with Ethel Barrymore.He continued his stage career in Britain, returning late in 1934 to the US, where he appeared with Katharine Cornell in several plays.Rathbone was once arrested in 1926 along with every other member of the cast of "The Captive", a play in which his character's wife left him for another woman.