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Bird With A Medal
''Bird with a Medal'' is a 1961 Australian stage play by Ru Pullan Ru Pullan (1916–1993) was an Australian writer of radio, television, novels, short stories and theatre. He was one of the leading radio writers in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. Writing as Luke Hardin, Cass Durand and Lew Rand, he published 50 .... It concerned delinquency among young people. The play was part of the realist drama tradition in Australian theatre at the time. Reception ''Variety'' said Pullan "has not mastered stage technique." The ''Bulletin'' said Pullan "tells us nothing more than we have come to expect from the pen of the typical honest, observant pressman. Like him he never really succeeds in getting behind the headlines, but he has raised a burning social issue from the printed column to the stage." A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library, the University of Queensland. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ru Pullan
Ru Pullan (1916–1993) was an Australian writer of radio, television, novels, short stories and theatre. He was one of the leading radio writers in Australia in the 1940s and 1950s. Writing as Luke Hardin, Cass Durand and Lew Rand, he published 50 novels in the western genre between 1962 and 1970. He also wrote romance novels using the pseudonyms Paul Easton and Wynne Barrie. Select credits *''Matrimonial Experiment'' (1947) – radio play *''Strong is the Seed'' (1949) – film *''Tjuringa'' (1950) *''The Storyteller'' (1951) – collection of stories *''The Strange house of Jeffrey Marlow'' (1951) – radio serial *''The Deceiver'' (1952) – radio serial *''The Renegade'' (1953) – radio serial *''The Imposter'' (1953) – radio serial *'' The Hunted One'' (1954-55) - radio serial *''Curly on the Rack'' (1958) – stage play (and 1960 radio play) *''The Restless Ones'' (1960) – novel *'' Bird with a Medal'' (1961) – stage play [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1961 Plays
Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 (Koivulahti air disaster): Douglas DC-3C OH-LCC of Finnish airline Aero crashes near Kvevlax (Koivulahti), on approach to Vaasa Airport in Finland, killing all 25 on board, due to pilot error: an investigation finds that the captain and first officer were both exhausted for lack of sleep, and had consumed excessive amounts of alcohol at the time of the crash. It remains the deadliest air disaster to occur in the country. * January 5 ** Italian sculptor Alfredo Fioravanti marches into the U.S. Consulate in Rome, and confesses that he was part of the team that forged the Etruscan terracotta warriors in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. ** After the 1960 military coup, General Cemal Gürsel forms the new government of Turkey (25th governm ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
