Complex sentence: He studied cello and piano as a child but these eventually gave way to his love of acting and, in 1929, he joined Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City.
Split into simpler sentences: He studied cello and piano as a child but these eventually gave way to his love of acting. In 1929, he joined Eva Le Gallienne's Civic Repertory Theatre in New York City.