Robert Speaight

The actor Robert Speaight wrote an obituary of her for the Catholic newspaper The Tablet. Her husband outlived her by ten years.

Another close friend of NRS , J. D. Beresford , a highly-regarded novelist, was also an important friend to Dorothy Richardson , and a mentor and support to Macaulay as well as Royde-Smith, and such...

Marjorie Grant Cook in the Times Literary Supplement welcomed this closely-written story, full of music and concerts but not overwhelmingly technical, with its impression of rich and varied interests, of groups, cities, artists and eccentrics...

Robert Speaight wrote that Royde-Smith's wide erudition made this and her biography of Maurice and Eugénie de Guérinmodels of their kind.

This book, wrote the distinguished actor Robert Speaight , shows a profound understanding of histrionic genius.

This book was controversial. Philip Toynbee called it a rare example of vigorous polemic, witty, hard-hitting and deeply serious.The Times responded with a front-page article (anonymous, as all...

Robert Speaight played the lead role. In November 1935, the play transferred to the public stage (the Mercury Theatre at Notting Hill Gate in London). It was then given at the Old Vic .

AR 's play is set in a wartime or immediately postwar factory. The arrogant and insensitive, output-obsessed Director of the factory (played by Robert Speaight ) summons an artist to give his workers...