Word: speaight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Playwright Eliot's subject is the slaying of Thomas a Becket, Archbishop of Canterbury, in 1170.* In Anglo-Catholic Eliot's hands, Becket (Robert Speaight) stands forth as a tremendous spiritual figure who, before the play begins, has made his choice between Heaven and Earth...
...Robert Speaight is superb as Becket, because his behaviour and appearance indicate besides the man of God, the onetime parvenu, good liver, and states man. E. Martin Browne in addition to having directed the play, fills with great understanding the roles of the last tempter and the last speakers for the murderers. The nine women who comprise the chorus, the "type of the common man," lend much added power, through their lowly dignity, their hypnotic speeches of vague forboding, and their intuitive understanding of situations that baffle the priests. Poetry and drama are masterfully blended by author and actors
...conference is more or less an outgrowth of a National conference which was held at Detroit last spring. The discussion will center upon the purposes of college education and definite projects which colleges can carry out for the benefit of the community at large, such as unemployment relief. Dr. Speaight of Dartmouth is chairman of the committee in charge of the conference, of which Professor Mather is a member...