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Matheson Lang (1879-1948) and Hutin Britton in Macbeth, 1911-1912. Lang was a Canadian actor who achieved fame in the UK in the early 20th century. He made his stage debut in 1897 and became known for his Shakespearean roles in such plays as Hamlet, Macbeth, and Romeo and Juliet. He married actress Hutin Britton (1876-1965), and they formed their own company, which toured India, South Africa, and Australia from 1910 to 1913 performing Shakespeare. In 1919, Lang became one of the first major theatre stars to act in a silent film, as Shylock in The Merchant of Venice. He went on to appear in over 30 films and was one of Britain's leading movie stars of the 1920s. From Penrose's Pictorial Annual 1911-1912, The Process Year Book, volume 17, edited by William Gamble and published by AW Penrose (London, 1911-1912).