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Best Australian One-Act Plays
''Best Australian One-Act Plays'' is a 1937 collection of Australian one-act plays. It was published at a time when Australian playwriting was relatively rare. Twenty one plays were selected out of 200 by William Moore and T. Inglis Moore. The ''Sydney Morning Herald'' called it an "important volume" and the plays "natural, sincere, and dramatically effective. They make pleasant reading, and should pave the way to an annual collection.' Selected plays *''Ancestors'' by Vance Palmer *''Andeganora'' by Louis Esson *''Anzac reunion'' by Edgar Holt *''At dusk'' by Millicent Armstrong *''Dampier's Ghost'' by Henrietta Drake-Brockman *''Easter'' by Dulcie Deamer *''The fourposter'' by Dora Wilcox *''Garden Fantasia'' by John Wheeler *''Gib It 'Tshillin by Montague Grover *'' Hester Siding'' by Alexander Turner *''Morning'' by Betty Roland *'' Murder in the Silo'' by Edmund Barclay *''No Family'' by Miles Franklin *''Pioneers'' by Katherine Susannah Prichard *''The Rustling of Voices'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sun (Sydney)
''The Sun'' was an Australian afternoon tabloid newspaper, first published under that name in 1910. History ''The Sunday Sun'' was first published on 5 April 1903. In 1910 Hugh Denison founded Sun Newspaper Ltd and took over publication of the old and ailing and ''Australian Star'' and its sister ''Sunday Sun'', appointing Monty Grover as editor-in-chief. The ''Star'' became ''The Sun'', and the ''Sunday Sun'' became ''The Sun: Sunday edition'' on 11 December 1910. According to its claim, below the masthead of that issue, it had a "circulation larger than that of any other Sunday paper in Australia". Denison sold the business in 1925. In 1953, The Sun was acquired from Associated Newspapers by Fairfax Holdings in Sydney, Australia, as the afternoon companion to ''The Sydney Morning Herald''. At the same time, the former Sunday edition, the ''Sunday Sun'', was discontinued and merged with the ''Sunday Herald'' into the tabloid '' Sun-Herald''. Publication of ''The Sun'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Montague Grover
Montague Macgregor Grover (31 May 1870 – 7 March 1943), commonly referred to as "Monty Grover", was an Australian journalist, editor of the Sydney ''Sun''. History Grover was born in Melbourne, son of Harry (c. 1830–1918) and Jessie Grover (died 1906) of St Kilda, Victoria, and was educated at Queen's College, St Kilda and Melbourne Church of England Grammar School. In 1888 he was articled to a Melbourne firm of architects but when he emerged four years later the country was in a severe recession, with little chance of employment, so turned to journalism. In 1894 he worked for the short-lived unionist newspaper The Boomerang; later that year he joined the literary staff of Melbourne's ''The Age''. He transferred to the "Argus" in 1896. In 1902 he visited London as secretary to J. C. Williamson. Sydney He was sub-editor of the ''Sydney Morning Herald'' 1907 to 1910, and while on that newspaper was responsible for Australia's first bold headlines. In 1910 Hugh Denison pu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sub-Editor's Room
''The Sub-Editor's Room'' is a 1956 Australian television play. It was produced and written by Leslie Rees. It was the first Australian-written television drama to air on Australian television. The word "slut" was spoken in dialogue several times. No copy of the production exists but a copy of the script survives at the National Archives of Australia. Original play It was based on a one act play Rees wrote in 1937. Cast * Edward Howell See also *List of live television plays broadcast on Australian Broadcasting Corporation (1950s) References External links''The Sub-editor's Room''at AustLitCopy of set designat ABC Gore Hill Tribute SiteAustralian Theatre performance of ''Sub-Editor's Room''at Ausstage AusStage: The Australian Live Performance Database is an online database which records information about live performances in Australia, providing records of productions from the first recorded performance in Australia (1789, by convicts) up unt ... Australian televis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bernard Cronin
Bernard Cronin (18 March 1884 – 9 June 1968) was an Australian author and journalist. With Gertrude Hart, he founded the Old Derelicts' Club in 1920 which later became the Society of Australian Authors. Life Cronin was born in Ealing, Middlesex, England, second son of Charles Frederick Cronin (1859–1887), an auctioneer, and Laura ''née'' Marshall (1850–1934). His father was advised to go to Australia for the sake of his health. Charles and his wife set off in 1886, leaving Bernard and his brother in England in the care of their grandmother and aunts. In Mitcham, South Australia, Bernard's father succumbed to his illness and died. Laura returned to London and in 1889 married Frederick Cecil Browne, who had taken her under his wing during her husband's illness and accompanied her back to England, and the two of them returned to Australia in the same year, accompanied by Bernard's brother Laurence Kimberley. Bernard himself followed them to Australia at the age of six in 1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Katherine Susannah Prichard
Katharine Susannah Prichard (4 December 18832 October 1969) was an Australian author and co-founding member of the Communist Party of Australia. Early life Prichard was born in Levuka, Fiji in 1883 to Australian parents. She spent her childhood in Launceston, Tasmania, then moved to Melbourne, where she won a scholarship to South Melbourne College. Her father, Tom Prichard, was editor of the Melbourne ''Sun'' newspaper. She worked as a governess and journalist in Victoria, then travelled to England in 1908. Her first novel, ''The Pioneers'' (1915), won the Hodder & Stoughton All Empire Literature Prize.Throssel, Ric "Katharine Susannah Prichard 1883–1969", The Katharine Susannah Prichard Writers Centre (website) After her return to Australia, the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miles Franklin
Stella Maria Sarah Miles Franklin (14 October 187919 September 1954), known as Miles Franklin, was an Australian writer and feminist who is best known for her novel ''My Brilliant Career'', published by Blackwoods of Edinburgh in 1901. While she wrote throughout her life, her other major literary success, ''All That Swagger'', was not published until 1936. She was committed to the development of a uniquely Australian form of literature, and she actively pursued this goal by supporting writers, literary journals, and writers' organisations. She has had a long-lasting impact on Australian literary life through her endowment of a major annual prize for literature about "Australian Life in any of its phases", the Miles Franklin Award. Her impact was further recognised in 2013 with the creation of the Stella Prize, awarded annually for the best work of literature by an Australian woman. Life and career Franklin was born at Talbingo, New South Wales, and grew up in the Brindabella ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Edmund Barclay
Edmund Piers Barclay (2 May 1898 – 26 August 1961) was an English-Australian writer known for his work in radio drama. Radio historian Richard Lane called him "Australian radio's first great writer and, many would say, Australian radio's greatest playwright ever."Richard Lane, ''The Golden Age of Australian Radio Drama 1923-1960'', Melbourne University Press, 1994, p. 27 Biography Barclay claimed to have been born on 2 May 1898 at Dinapore, India, the son of Major Edmund Compston-Buckleigh, from Middlesex, England. He also maintained that he was educated at Stonyhurst College, joined the Middlesex Regiment on 11 August 1914, and won the Military Cross and Croix de Guerre while serving with the Royal Flying Corps. However, there is no record of anyone with the surname Barclay or Compston-Buckleigh having attended Stonyhurst or served with the Royal Flying Corps. He claimed that after WWI he worked as a journalist in Fleet Street, London, until sacked for costing his employ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Murder In The Silo
''Murder in the Silo'' is a 1937 radio drama by Edmund Barclay. It was described as a psychological melodrama and was very popular at a time when Australian set radio dramas were relatively rare. Leslie Rees called it "one of the most effective of our shorter radio plays." Barclay's script was published in a collection of one-act plays in 1937, ''Best Australian One-Act Plays''. The play was produced by BBC radio in 1938. The play was produced again in Australia in 1939, 1941, 1942, 1945 and 1953. (It was usually presented on a double bill with another short play.) Reception ''The Bulletin'' called it "more than ordinarily good. It is a mystery-thriller, making the usual bald bid for the listener’s curiosity and subsequent undisguised attack on his feelings, but it also gives what appears to be an authentic glimpse of certain Australian types and an aspect of Australian rural life hitherto unportrayed." ''Wireless Weekly'' called it "a well-constructed melodrama with an unusu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Betty Roland
Betty Roland (22 July 1903 – 12 February 1996) was an Australian writer of plays, screenplays, novels, children's books and comics. Early years Betty Roland was born Mary Isobel Maclean at Kaniva, Victoria, the daughter of Roland and Matilda Maclean.Steve HollandBetty Roland Bear Alley, 8 September 2006 She left school at sixteen to work as a journalist for ''Table Talk'' and the ''Sun News-Pictorial'', and married Ellis Harvey Davies in 1923. Drama and theatre work Roland wrote plays from the mid-1920s. Her best known play, '' The Touch of Silk'', was first performed in 1928 by the Melbourne Repertory Theatre company, and hailed as "The first Australian play written by a real dramatist".Penelope Hanley, ''Creative lives: personal papers of Australian writers and artists'', National Library of Australia, 2009, pp. 8–87 A moving study of the alienation felt by a young French woman who marries an Australian soldier who she meets during World War One and moves with him to a nar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alexander Turner (writer)
Alexander Turner (1907–1993) was an Australian poet, playwright, and theatre and radio producer. He was one of the leading Western Australian writers of the twentieth century. Turner was born in London and moved to Western Australia in 1925. He became one of the leading writers in Western Australia, working mostly in radio. Turner became a producer in 1946. A book of his works was published in 1937. Select works *''Golden Journey'' (1937) *'' Hester Siding'' (1937) *''Coat of Arms'' *'' Buccaneer Bay'' *'' I'm a Dutchman'' *'' Australian Stages'' *''Royal Mail'' *''The Neighbours ''The Neighbours'' is a sculpture by Siegfried Charoux. It was commissioned in 1957 using funds set aside by London County Council for public art in its housing projects and unveiled in 1959 at the Quadrant Estate in Islington, N5, London ...'' *'' Wheat Boat'' References {{DEFAULTSORT:Turner, Alexander 1907 births 1993 deaths Australian writers Australian radio writers ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hester Siding
''Hester Siding'' is a 1937 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most acclaimed works. The play was published in a collection of Turner's works in 1937, the first collection of plays published by a Western Australian author. The play aired on the ABC as part of Australian drama week. There were new productions of it in 1941. Leslie Rees called it "in its own slight and delicate was a masterpiece of emotional understatement". The play sold to New Zealand. Premise A couple move to Western Australia. The wife dies while on holiday. References {{reflist 1937 Australian radio dramas 1941 Australian radio dramas Australian radio dramas set in Western Australia 1937 radio dramas Radio plays by Alexander Turner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dora Wilcox
Dora Wilcox (born Mary Theodora Wilcox, 24 November 1873 – 14 December 1953), was a New Zealand and Australian poet and playwright. Biography Wilcox was born in Christchurch, New Zealand to William Henry Wilcox and his wife Mary Elizabeth, née Washbourne. She was educated privately and at Canterbury College, before spending three years teaching in Armidale, New South Wales. She had been publishing work in periodicals, including the Sydney ''Bulletin'', since the age of twelve, and made the move to Australia according to an "old friend" and obituary writer "to seek her literary fortune". She spent the next two decades in Europe, initially touring with her mother. While overseas she published two books of verse with George Allen (all the while publishing many poems and articles in the periodical press) and married Professor Paul Hamelius of the University of Liège. After Professor Hamelius's death in 1922 she returned to Australia. She had by that time met and married the Melb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
