(April 9 to 16, 1945) He acted in Lillian Hellmans' play, "The Searching Wind," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with Cornelia Otis Skinner, Dennis King, Dudley Digges, Barbara O'Neil, Henry Barnard, Walter Kohler, Mercedes Gilbert, Sylvestre Lamont, Aldo Aldi, Anthony Carlo, Walter Palm, Donald Foster, and William F. Schoeller in the cast. Howard was set designer. Aline Bernstein was costume designer. Herman Shumlin was producer and director.