![]() 1932 also saw his film début, a bit part in Reunion. He sought to offer ' good plays at a price everyone could afford' ( The Times, 21 April 1956), and appeared himself in most productions, but it was not a particularly successful venture. After playing in I Lived With You at the Prince of Wales and reprising at the Duchess an old Birmingham repertory role, Jesse Redvers in The Secret Woman, Newton assumed in 1932 the management of the Grand Theatre in Fulham, which he ran for two years as the Shilling. In May 1931 he made his New York début at the Times Square Theatre when he succeeded Laurence Olivier as Victor Prynne in Coward's Private Lives. In late 1925 he appeared in The Ring o'Bells, but between 19 he toured the provinces, and worked in Canada as a lumberjack and on a cattle ranch.īack in London, Newton played in My Lady's Mill, Her Cardboard Lover, and Byron (1928–9) before appearing, in July 1929, as Hugh Devon in Noël Coward's Bitter Sweet at His Majesty's. ![]() In 1923–4 he toured in Canada, South Africa, Australia, and the West Indies before returning to make his London début at Drury Lane in June 1924 in London Life. His first stage appearance was in a walk-on part in Shakespeare's 1 Henry IV in November 1920 at Birmingham Repertory Theatre, where he worked variously as a scenery painter, stage hand, assistant stage manager, and actor. He was educated at Newbury grammar school and in Switzerland. ![]() ![]() Newton, Robert Guy ( 1905–1956), actor, was born in Shaftesbury, Dorset, on 1 June 1905, the only son among the three surviving children of Algernon Cecil Newton (1880–1968), a landscape painter and Royal Academician, and his first wife, Marjorie Emelia Balfour Rider, a writer. ![]()
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