Word: speaight
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Moreover, Catholic University has been producing plays for less than eight years. Yet in that time it has attracted most of Broadway's and Hollywood's bigwigs to its productions. It has tempted such performers as Sara Allgood, Dorothy McGuire, Florence Reed, Robert Speaight to act in them. It has had offers to broadcast over every big network and is now getting offers to televise. It has tried out shows for Gilbert Miller and declined to try them out for Arthur Hopkins. It has seen its homemade "musical biography" of George M. Cohan lead to a smash movie...
Head & Shoulders. Heading C.U.'s drama department is zestful, 39-year-old Father Gilbert Vincent Hartke, who shouldered the experiment nine years ago. He started off trying to raise $100,000 for productions, wound up with $200. There were some close shaves. Once Robert Speaight guest-acted for four performances in T. S. Eliot's Murder in the Cathedral. Then C.U. staged a fifth performance-to raise enough money...