[1][2] In 1936, Watts succeeded Percy Hammond as drama critic for the New York Herald Tribune.
In 1941, he was a war correspondent for four months in China, Burma, the Netherlands, East Indies and Malaya.
[1] In 1942, Watts was appointed chief of the United States Office of War Information in Dublin, Ireland.
He is also credited for lending his name and voice to a Fatima Cigarette commercial for the radio show "Dragnet".
He died of cardiac arrest on January 2, 1981, at Mount Sinai Hospital in Manhattan.