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Jeff Underhill
Jeffrey Winton Underhill (1927–10 May 1978) was an Australian writer and journalist. He worked in advertising before turning to writing. Career He was a regular writer on the Friday night edition of ''In Melbourne Tonight'' hosted by Noel Ferrier, who wrote in his memoirs that Underhill "possessed one of the most original talents for script writing I have ever encountered and I was extraordinarily luck to have him on the team. He wrote the entire show - no small effort on a weekly basis." Select credits *'' The Bunyip and the Satellite'' (1957) - stage musical - lyrics *'' The Ballad of Angel's Alley'' (1958) – stage musical, first performed at the New Theatre, Melbourne in December 1958 *'' Night of the Ding-Dong'' (1961) - writer *'' Alice in Wonderland'' (1962 film) - writer *''In Melbourne Tonight'' (1962) – writer *'' The Noel Ferrier Show'' (1964) – TV writer *''A Small Wonder'' (1966) – TV play *''A Time for Love'' - "Noises in Another Room" (1972) - TV play Ref ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Canberra Times
''The Canberra Times'' is a daily newspaper in Canberra, Australia, which is published by Australian Community Media. It was founded in 1926, and has changed ownership and format several times. History ''The Canberra Times'' was launched in 1926 by Thomas Shakespeare along with his oldest son Arthur Shakespeare and two younger sons Christopher and James. The newspaper's headquarters were originally located in the Civic retail precinct, in Cooyong Street and Mort Street, in blocks bought by Thomas Shakespeare in the first sale of Canberra leases in 1924. The newspaper's first issue was published on 3 September 1926. It was the second paper to be printed in the city, the first being ''The Federal Capital Pioneer''. Between September 1926 and February 1928, the newspaper was a weekly issue. The first daily issue was 28 February 1928. In June 1956, ''The Canberra Times'' converted from broadsheet to tabloid format. Arthur Shakespeare sold the paper to John Fairfax Lt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
In Melbourne Tonight
''In Melbourne Tonight'', also known as ''IMT'', was a highly popular nightly Logie award-winning Australian variety television show produced at GTV-9 Melbourne from 6 May 1957 to 1970. Overview Graham Kennedy was the show's main host and star attraction, but other presenters were often called on to present the show on certain nights. ''In Melbourne Tonight'' had as many as 50 different presenters over its 13 years on air. The format of the show was inspired by the American ''Tonight Show'' on NBC, but Kennedy's exuberant charisma was the key to the success of ''IMT''. The show originally had its own self-titled theme song, written by ''IMT'' first band leader, Lee Gallagher, but for most of its run, it adopted the tune of '' Gee, But You're Swell'', written by Abel Baer and Charles Tobias in 1936. Geoff Corke was Kennedy's offsider until 1959, when Bert Newton joined GTV-9 from HSV-7 to become Kennedy's straight man. This began a professional partnership that continued for ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noel Ferrier
Noel Ferrier AM (20 December 193016 October 1997) was an Australian television personality, comedian, stage and film actor, raconteur and theatrical producer. He was a regular panelist in Graham Kennedy's popular game show '' Blankety Blanks (Australian game show), Blankety Blanks''. His movie credits include ''Alvin Purple'', ''Alvin Purple Rides Again'', ''Eliza Fraser'', ''Turkey Shoot'' and '' The Year of Living Dangerously''. He received and AFI nomination for Best Actor for his role in ''Eliza Fraser''. His final movie role was in '' Paradise Road'' (1997). Death Noel Ferrier died in October 1997 in Sydney, aged 66, from undisclosed causes. Honours In 1989 he was appointed a Member of the Order of Australia.Australian Government ''It's an honour: Australia Celebrating Australians'/ref> Personal life In 1960 he married Susanne de Berenger, a noted artist and multiple Archibald Prize finalist, a decision he frequently claimed "proved to be... a lifesaver". Their son Ti ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Bunyip And The Satellite
''The Bunyip and the Satellite'' is a 1957 Australian stage musical written by Barry Humphries and Peter O'Shaughnessy Peter O'Shaughnessy OAM (5 October 1923 – 17 July 2013) was an Australian actor, theatre director, producer and writer who presented the work of playwrights ranging from Shakespeare, Shaw, Ibsen, Strindberg, Chekhov to modern dramatists, suc .... It was based on Frank Dalby Davison's children's novel ''Children of the Dark People''. The ''Bulletin'' called it "well formed, well and sometimes wittily written." There was a sequel ''Mumba Jumba and the Bunyip''. References {{reflist External linksThe Bunyip and the Satelliteat AustlitProgram at Ausstage < ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Ballad Of Angel's Alley
''The Ballad of Angel's Alley: A Pocket Opera'' is an Australian musical set in Melbourne's " push" wars of the 1890s, with book and lyrics by Jeff Underhill and music by Bruce George. Production history 1958 production It was first seen at Melbourne's New Theatre in 1958, because no commercial management would take it on. “Most managements in this country can’t even read a score”, said Underhill at the time. “They have to go to New York or London to find a musical that they can put on here.” 1962 Union Theatre production ''The Ballad of Angel's Alley'' received a professional premiere in July 1962 at the Russell St Theatre in Melbourne presented by the Union Theatre Repertory Company, featuring Kevin Colson, Mary Hardy, Reg Livermore, Marion Edward and Bob Hornery. It was part of a season of Australian works at the Union Theatre, the others being revivals of ''The Shifting Heart'', ''The One Day of the Year'' and ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. Reviewing ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tribune (Australian Newspaper)
''Tribune'' was the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Australia. It was published by the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Australia from 1939 to 1991. Initially it was subtitled as ''Tribune: The People's Paper''. It was also published as the ''Qld Guardian'', ''Guardian'' (Melbourne), ''Forward'' (Sydney). It had previously been published as '' The Australian Communist'', (1920-1921) '' The Communist'', (1921-1923) and the ''Workers' Weekly'' (1923-1939). The ''Tribune'' for the years 1939–1976 has been digitised, as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program of the National Library of Australia. Publication history The ''Tribune'' was the flagship of Australia's left wing newspapers. ''Two competing papers'' Two newspapers claiming to represent the Communist Party of Australia were published 1920–1921: :''The Australian Communist'' was a weekly newspaper published from Sydney, Australia between 24 December 1920 and 29 April 1921. In to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
New Theatre, Melbourne
The New Theatre in Melbourne, formerly Melbourne Workers' Theatre Group, was one of a number of branches of Australia's New Theatre movement established in the 1930s. This was a radical left theatrical movement which staged performances with a political message. The theatre group existed from 1936 until 2000. Background New Theatre in Australia was inspired by similar movements abroad: the Workers Theatre Movement in the 1920s in the UK, and the New Theatre League in the United States. They were all affiliated with the Communist Party, and the plays were in the agitprop style of theatre favoured by the Soviet Union. Themes usually related to the class struggle. Referred to as workers' theatre in the early days, groups formed in other cities around Australia: the Workers Art Club in Sydney in 1932 (later New Theatre), Workers' Theatre Groups in Melbourne and Perth; similar groups in Brisbane, Newcastle, and Adelaide. Some disbanded and then got re-established, but only the S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AustLit
AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature), usually referred to simply as AustLit, is an internet-based, non-profit collaboration between researchers and librarians from Australian universities, led by the University of Queensland (UQ), designed to comprehensively record the history of Australian literary and story-making cultures. AustLit is an encyclopaedia of Australian writers and writing. BlackWords is a landmark research project by and within AustLit that details the lives and work of Indigenous Australian authors, which includes Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander writers and storytellers. History AustLit was founded in 2000, when several independent databases on a variety of themes related to literary studies was created from work done by research groups at eight universities. The first dataset comprised about 300,000 fairly simple biographical and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Night Of The Ding-Dong
''Night of the Ding-Dong'' is a 1954 stage play by Ralph Peterson. It was this second play, following ''The Square Ring''. It is a comedy set in Adelaide just after the Crimean War about the locals fearing a Russian invasion. It is based on a real incident. Plot In 19th century Adelaide, after the Crimean War, Colonial Administrator Colonel Beauchamp trains a volunteer defence corps at the weekends, and worries about a Russian invasion. Idealistic schoolteacher Higsen, who is in love with Beauchamp's daughter, is more concerned with free education. Higsen asks Beauchamp to marry the latter's daughter but is turned down because education must give way to defence. When a Russian gunboat is rumoured to be near Adelaide, Beauchamp sets about whipping up the public into a frenzy in order to fund a standing army. Background Peterson said he was told the story about a rumoured Russian invasion by his grandmother when he was a child. He came across the story years later when researching ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alice In Wonderland (1962 Film)
''Alice in Wonderland'' is a 1962 Australian television film based on Lewis Carroll's 1865 novel ''Alice's Adventures in Wonderland''. It was a pantomime and aired as part of the ''BP Super Show''. It aired 15 December 1962 and ran for one hour. It was one of a number of original Australian musicals on TV at the time. Cast *Patricia Moore as Alice * Kevin Colson as Knave of Hearts *Noel Ferrier as Humpty Dumpty *Bill Hodge as Duchess *Chips Rafferty as White Knight *Johnny Ladd as Queen of Hearts * Brian Crossley as White Rabbit * Bob Hornery as the Mad Hatter *Ron Shand as the King of Hearts and the Walrus *Roger McDougall as Cheshire Cat *Fred Parslow as Mock Turtle and the Caterpillar *Robina Beard as Dormouse *Kevin Reagan *Jim Gerald as Cook *John Bailey as Tweedledee *Ray Trickett as Tweedledum *Ernie Bourne as the March Hare The March Hare (called Haigha in ''Through the Looking-Glass'') is a character most famous for appearing in the tea party scene in Lewis Ca ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Noel Ferrier Show
''The'' () is a grammatical article in English, denoting persons or things already mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the most frequently used word in the English language; studies and analyses of texts have found it to account for seven percent of all printed English-language words. It is derived from gendered articles in Old English which combined in Middle English and now has a single form used with pronouns of any gender. The word can be used with both singular and plural nouns, and with a noun that starts with any letter. This is different from many other languages, which have different forms of the definite article for different genders or numbers. Pronunciation In most dialects, "the" is pronounced as (with the voiced dental fricative followed by a schwa) when followed by a consonant sound, and as (homophone of pronoun ''thee'') when followed by a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
A Small Wonder
"A Small Wonder" is the 29th television play episode of the first season of the Australian anthology television series ''Australian Playhouse''. "A Small Wonder" was written by Jeff Underhill and directed by James Davern and originally aired on ABC on 31 October 1966 in Sydney and Melbourne. and 7 November 1966 in Brisbane. Plot George is spending his wedding night with Evelyn. Marriage has come late in life to him, and not under the happiest circumstances, as the woman is pregnant. He has gone to a great deal of trouble to create the right atmosphere, but his bride remains silent. He talks for over 20 minutes. Evelyn says she loves him. Cast * Noel Ferrier as George Fisher * Fay Kelton as Evelyn Fisher * Joe James Production The production marked Noel Ferrier's return to television after an absence, and was his first performance for ABC-TV. It was shot in Melbourne. Reception ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' said "the script was only a placegetter, but" Noel Ferrier's performance ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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