In 1928 Gielgud made his Broadway debut as the Grand Duke Alexander in Alfred Neumann's "The Patriot". The play was a failure, closing after a week, but Gielgud liked New York and received favourable reviews from critics including Alexander Woollcott and Brooks Atkinson. After returning to London he starred in a succession of short runs, including Ibsen's "Ghosts" with Mrs Patrick Campbell (1928), and Reginald Berkeley's "The Lady with a Lamp" (1929) with Edith Evans and Gwen Ffrangcon-Davies. In 1928 he made his second film, "The Clue of the New Pin". This, billed as "the first British full-length talkie", was an adaptation of an Edgar Wallace mystery story; Gielgud played a young scoundrel who commits two murders and very nearly a third before he himself is killed.