Royal Academy of Dramatic Art

Her father, who wanted her to act, chose her as one of the students at the Academy (later Royal Academy) of Dramatic Art , which he founded in 1904—the same year in which she began...

In 1911 Bernard Shaw , who was an opera critic as well as a playwright, and a Tree family friend (his donations were crucial to the success of Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ), wrote...

After a spell earning her own living, NS enrolled at the LondonAcademy of Dramatic Art (later RADA).

GBS started school at seven. During her first term she fell into disgrace for running up a large bill for pencils, erasers, etc., from a stationers' shop where her parents had an account: she had...

DS studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art (later RADA) in London.

Ella Williams (later JR ) entered Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree 's School (later renamed the Academy of Dramatic Art ) in London to study acting.

There followed brief attendance at a part-time painting course in her late teens (the result of a romantic passion for an art student), being struck dumb at an audition for RADA (the Royal Academy of...

HB 's ambition to go on the stage caused her to write for advice to Ellen Terry , and then appeal for help to the admiring Sir Thomas Lipton , who offered to pay her...

HP decided on an acting career, and studied at the RADA (which he hated) and the Central School of Speech and Drama (which he enjoyed).

She went on immediately from Bristol to begin studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art , where, between 1959 and 1961, she played the leading roles in many student productions.

At Surbiton she disliked the educational regime of the headmistress, Miss Proctor, more than any she had known. She could bear the English literature, foreign languages, and religious instruction (which, as before, she converted into...

HM then briefly attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art ; however, she soon abandoned her theatrical aspirations for the study of classics.

Soon after AW arrived in London, she won a scholarship to the recently founded Tree Academy of Acting or Academy of Dramatic Art (later RADA). She was placed in an advanced acting class, but...

Cicily Fairfield (later RW ) studied acting at the Academy of Dramatic Art in London.

When acting appeared to be going nowhere, Marguerite Jervis wrote an article entitled A Day at the Academy of Dramatic Art, which she submitted in person (wearing a white muslin frock with blue sash...