... full-time actor, playing in most theatre* in England. During the time he wrote more than 21 plays, including If the Dead Could Speak, which was not presented until 1958 when, after an absence of more than 20 years from the stage, he played a part in it. On ...

... acrtcsses to be engaged for repertory drama by Radio Eirann. She spent her childhood in Western Ireland where she learnt to speak Gaelic. She thus became hi-lingual. acting and singing in Irish as well as in English. She served a long apprenticeship in ...

... dramatist thai he will be remem bered. His play, The Rotters, written in 1916, has been per formed throughout the English- speaking world. Apart from many other pLtyv he wrote dialogue and scenarios for scores of films. He was last seen on the London stage ...

... Wiih Charles Laughton, he shaied the distinction of being a foreign actor who appeared on the stage of the Comedie Francaise, speak ing impeccable French. s ...

... national magazine. He was editor for about forty years, during which times the publication became the recognised organ of English-speak ing dancers throughout the world. He was actively associated with a number of movements which helped to raise various kinds ...

... appeared on stage with her son, Elliot Williams. Her last stage ap pearance was 30 years ago. HERMAN TEIRLINCK, doyen of Flemish-speaking theatre in Belgium, died on February 6 at Beersel. near Brussels, aged 87. ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... 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 ...

... numbc of varied accents, and couli switch from irish to Welsh. York shire to Scots, with the greate. o ease. He could also speak fftcci different S:n;tish dialects He at pea red in the BBC series Th Flying Doctor, and was a mcmit of the BBC Repertory ...