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...matters involving courage, honesty and humor, the late Hilaire Belloc was the best judge of British character that France ever produced. But in most other aspects of life, he was one of the worst. In this authorized biography, Author-Actor Robert Speaight. an Anglo-Catholic, presents Belloc in all the fullness of flesh and mind...
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...
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