... and a fellow. It was her outstanding training of specialist voice teach ers which won her acclaim throughout the English-speaking world. In 1975 the college became part of Middlesex Polytechnic, now University. Throughout her long career Greta was associated ...

... casts, and presented these attractions in England, Australia and New Zealand. His international business covered most English-speaking countries, with many shows tour ing Canada and virtually every known venue (and some that Mark invented!) in the Antipodes ...

... included Arsenic and Old Lace, Pygmalion, The Importance of Being Earnest, Witness for the Prosecution and My Fair Lady. Speaking from his home in San Clemente, California, the for mer executive producer at Theatre Memphis. Sherwood Lobrey, said: Jean ...

... in 1924 in Sabbcthai Zvi with Maurice Schwartz and his Yiddish Art Theatre. He made his first appearance in an English-speaking part in We Americans in New York in 1926. His outstanding stage success was as George Simon in Counsellor-at-law in New ...

... outstanding, and at the age of 88 was the subject of a BBC-tv This is Your Life programme. Handsome, virile, with a resonant speaking voice and an air of old- world charm, he was the grand old man of character acting and one of the few able to sustain one-man ...

... Obituary KATE EMIL-BEHNKE l Kate Emil-Behnke, well known as a teacher of singing and speaking, f has died at her home at Lane End, Bucks, aged 86. The daughter of Emil Bchnke, author of the stan- dard work, Voice, Song and Speech, she embodied his research ...

... 1920s, at the Old Pavilion Theatre, Whitechapel, and at the Grand Palais, Commercial Road. He made his debut on the English speaking stage in 1953 on Broadway in The Fifth Season. He became well-known in America largely by his success in his own television ...

... was appointed MBE for his services to entertainment in 1993. He emphasised that he had no power over the birds he seemed to speak to. They sing because they think a rival is on their territory, he said. Edwards is survived by his wife Cicely and their ...

... in 1934 and had a hit recording with Little Man You've Had a Busy Day, on which his wife, Anne, and small son Norman had speaking parts. Around 1937 Les formed a vocal trio for his act called the Canadian Bachelors and they toured extensively, broadcast ...

... the Playhouse. He once remarked that the family Shakespeare should be as normal as the family Bible. On another occa sion, speaking about Shakespearean productions in modern dress, he commented: Acting can bridge the gap between the centuries far better ...

... was a great ambassador for her country. It is safe to say that whenever the countless English players who knew and loved her speak of the French Theatre, Gachet will be in all their minds. CHARLIE NEEDLE CHARLIE NFbDLE. stage- manager a ...

... she came to England in 1894, appearing as Eva Tudor in The Shop Girl at the Gaiety. In this play she had only one line to speak, shrewdly written for her by George Edwardes Watch for my wink. The audience indeed watched, and from that moment her remarkable ...