... mand confidence through his burn ing sincerity. Lt.-Col. Norman Graham Thwaites. former honorary secre tary of the English-Speaking Union, who has died al the age of 83. was at one time a member of Sir Frank Benson's company. ...

... television Born in London in 1 900. Truman studied at the Royal College of Music There, Sir Hugh Allen, impressed by his speaking voice, advised him to go on the stage and in 1 923. he appeared in a Shakespeare season at the Kingsway Theatre and later ...

... voyage. She then came home and died as she had lived, with courage, dignity and style, all of which Rusty had in abundance. I speak for many in saluting this fine lady. Playing Liverpool will never be the same again. James Earl Adair Obituaries can also be ...

... the post- London tour of the original My Fair Lady, were intermixed with pre-West End plays. Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking was nursed through its various endings, Jack challenging stage crews to better the last scene-change time. Michael Hordern ...

... performance (I can not recall the play) which was given in Russian to which he had been taken at the age of about 11. He did not speak a word of the language a brave move by his mother perhaps yet he recounted to me a clearly distinct and powerful memory of ...

... University College. Galway, and a Gaelic speaker before she learned English, her first stage appearances were with the Irish speaking An Taibhdherc in Galway, play ing such roles as Lady Macbeth and Saint Joan in her native language. She joined the Abbey ...

... on with the boy and it was only decades later that they made it up. A strange man, recalled Chester. If he wanted to speak to me he would do so through my mother. At 14, the unhappy lad turned to showbusiness and won many amateur talent contests ...

... recalled that one critic had described McCann as the greatest actor in the English speaking world, and added: My only quibble with that is with the words 'English speaking'. Director Joe Dowling, who had been involved in another of McCann's unforgettable ...

... Newcastle for two years, then at Harrogatc with the White Rose Players for a further two years. In London her first small speaking part was in Lady Win- dermere's Fan, at the Haymarket. following an understudy engagement to Dulcie Gray in Dear Ruth. ...

... Bandbox and occasionally he performed with the band leader Henry Hall. In later years he was much in demand as an after dinner speak er. He was a prominent member of the Grand Order of Water Rats and the Vaudeville Golfing Society where he made many friends ...

... Prague, he made his name in Vienna under Ber.thold Viertel before the first world war and with Fritz Kortner became the German-speak- ing theatre's internationally best- known actor. London will remember him as Nathan in Lessing's Nathan the Wise, when the ...

... When the new Churchill opened in 1977, she played in Suddenly at Home with Shirley Ann Field and Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking with Miriam Karlin. She did Banana Ridge starring Robert Morley at the Savoy and Not Now Darling with Terry Scott and June ...