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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] |
The Herald (Melbourne)
''The Herald'' was a morning and, later, evening broadsheet newspaper published in Melbourne, Australia, from 3 January 1840 to 5 October 1990, which is when it merged with its sister morning newspaper ''The Sun News-Pictorial'' to form the ''Herald-Sun''. Founding The ''Port Phillip Herald'' was first published as a semi-weekly newspaper on 3 January 1840 from a weatherboard shack in Collins Street. It was the fourth newspaper to start in Melbourne. The paper took its name from the region it served. Until its establishment as a separate colony in 1851, the area now known as Victoria was a part of New South Wales and it was generally referred to as the Port Phillip district. Preceding it was the short-lived ''Melbourne Advertiser'' which John Pascoe Fawkner first produced on 1 January 1838 as hand-written editions for 10 weeks and then printed for a further 17 weekly issues, the ''Port Phillip Gazette'' and ''The Port Phillip Patriot and Melbourne Advertiser''. But within ei ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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] |
Australian Radio Writers
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Australian Writers
Australian(s) may refer to: Australia * Australia, a country * Australians, citizens of the Commonwealth of Australia ** European Australians ** Anglo-Celtic Australians, Australians descended principally from British colonists ** Aboriginal Australians, indigenous peoples of Australia as identified and defined within Australian law * Australia (continent) ** Indigenous Australians * Australian English, the dialect of the English language spoken in Australia * Australian Aboriginal languages * ''The Australian'', a newspaper * Australiana, things of Australian origins Other uses * Australian (horse), a racehorse * Australian, British Columbia, an unincorporated community in Canada See also * The Australian (other) * Australia (other) Australia is a country in the Southern Hemisphere. Australia may also refer to: Places * Name of Australia relates the history of the term, as applied to various places. Oceania *Australia (continent), or Sahul, the landmasses ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1993 Deaths
File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peacefully dissolved into the Czech Republic and Slovakia; In the United States, the ATF besieges a compound belonging to David Koresh and the Branch Davidians in a search for illegal weapons, which ends in the building being set alight and killing most inside; Eritrea gains independence; A major snow storm passes over the United States and Canada, leading to over 300 fatalities; Drug lord and narcoterrorist Pablo Escobar is killed by Colombian special forces; Ramzi Yousef and other Islamic terrorists detonate a truck bomb in the subterranean garage of the North Tower of the World Trade Center in the United States., 300x300px, thumb rect 0 0 200 200 Oslo I Accord rect 200 0 400 200 1993 Russian constitutional crisis rect 400 0 600 200 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1916 Births
Events Below, the events of the First World War have the "WWI" prefix. January * January 1 – The British Empire, British Royal Army Medical Corps carries out the first successful blood transfusion, using blood that had been stored and cooled. * January 9 – WWI: Gallipoli Campaign: The last British troops are evacuated from Gallipoli, as the Ottoman Empire prevails over a joint British and French operation to capture Constantinople. * January 10 – WWI: Erzurum Offensive: Russia defeats the Ottoman Empire. * January 12 – The Gilbert and Ellice Islands Colony, part of the British Empire, is established in present-day Tuvalu and Kiribati. * January 13 – WWI: Battle of Wadi (1916), Battle of Wadi: Ottoman Empire forces defeat the British, during the Mesopotamian campaign in modern-day Iraq. * January 29 – WWI: Paris is bombed by German Empire, German zeppelins. * January 31 – WWI: An attack is planned on Verdun, France. February * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
IMDB
IMDb (an abbreviation of Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews. IMDb began as a fan-operated movie database on the Usenet group "rec.arts.movies" in 1990, and moved to the Web in 1993. It is now owned and operated by IMDb.com, Inc., a subsidiary of Amazon. the database contained some million titles (including television episodes) and million person records. Additionally, the site had 83 million registered users. The site's message boards were disabled in February 2017. Features The title and talent ''pages'' of IMDb are accessible to all users, but only registered and logged-in users can submit new material and suggest edits to existing entries. Most of the site's data has been provided by these volunteers. Registered users with a prov ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Shadow On The Wall (Wednesday Theatre)
"Shadow on the Wall" is the 15th television play episode of the second season of the Australian anthology television series '' Wednesday Theatre''. It was recorded in 1967 as part of '' Australian Playhouse'' but was not aired until 10 April 1968 in Melbourne and Sydney as part of ''Wednesday Theatre''. It was a rare contemporary Australian TV drama to address the Vietnam War. It ran for 30 minutes. Premise In a North Vietnamese village, there is conflict between a local priest and the local political commissar. Cast * Allan Tobin as Captain Yun * Keith Lee as the bishop * Mark Albiston as Comissar Kin * Lyndel Rowe as Lin Tan * Farida Jauhari * Richard Lee * Suzette Jauhari Production It was filmed at ABC's studios in Ripponlea Ripponlea is an inner suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 7 km south-east of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Port Phillip local government area. Ripponlea recorded a population of 1,532 at the 202 . ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Curly On The Rack
''Curly on the Rack'' is a 1958 Australian play by Ru Pullan set in Rabaul after World War II. Pullan was an experienced radio writer. The play came about from a discussion Pullan had with a friend about treasure left behind in the war. It was presented by the Elizabethan Theatre Trust at a time when production of Australian plays was rare. It was considered a disappointment after their successful productions of ''The Shifting Heart'' and ''Summer of the Seventeenth Doll''. Plot After World War Two, two brothers, the tough Max and the gentler Harry, live in Rabaul with their sister Pet, salvaging war time equipment. Their truck driver, Curly, waits for his opportunity to recover £10,000 he planted on a nearby island during the Japanese invasion along with a fellow soldier called Scobie. Scobie arrives, having lost both his legs during the war, demanding his half of the money. Smith, a philosophical drunk, comments on the action. Cast of original production *Stewart Ginn as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Australian Women's Weekly
''The Australian Women's Weekly'', sometimes known as simply ''The Weekly'', is an Australian monthly women's magazine published by Mercury Capital in Sydney. For many years it was the number one magazine in Australia before being outsold by the Australian edition of '' Better Homes and Gardens'' in 2014. , ''The Weekly'' has overtaken '' Better Homes and Gardens'' again, coming out on top as Australia's most read magazine. The magazine invested in the 2020 film '' I Am Woman'' about Helen Reddy, singer, feminist icon and activist. Editor-in-chief Nicole Byers told Film Ink "Helen’s story of adversity and triumph is nothing short of inspirational. ''The Weekly'' has been telling stories of iconic Australian women for more than 80 years and we're delighted to be supporting the film production". History and profile The magazine was started in 1933 by Frank Packer and Ted Theodore as a weekly publication. The first editor was George Warnecke and the initial dummy was laid out b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Hunted One
''The Hunted One'' is a 1954 Australian radio serial by Ru Pullan. It was based on the Petrov Affair. The Melbourne ''Herald'' said it was "worth hearing". Premise "A topical adventure drama of a woman’s efforts to get from a police-controlled country to a free State." Cast *Margaret Christensen as Nina Sabin *Guy Doleman Guy Doleman (22 November 1923 – 30 January 1996) was a New Zealand born actor, active in Australia, Britain and the United States. Early life Doleman was born in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand, later moving to Australia. Career During the 1 ... as a British Secret Service Agent * Bruce Stewart *Richard Ashley *Alan Herbert *Barrie Cookson References {{reflist 1954 Australian radio dramas 1950s Australian radio serials ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Observer (Henty, NSW)
The ''Eastern Riverina Chronicle'', previously published as ''The Observer'', ''The Henty Observer and Culcairn Shire Register and Shire's Observer,'' the ''Eastern Riverina Observer'' and the ''Holbrook, Billabong & Upper Murray Chronicle'', is a newspaper published in Henty, New South Wales, Australia. History ''The Observer'' was first published in 1906 using equipment bought from '' The Border Post, and Wodonga Advertiser'', an Albury newspaper which had ceased operation in 1902. It was also titled T''he Henty observer and Culcairn Shire register and Shire's observer''. The press moved a number of times in Henty until, after a fire destroyed its premises in 1933, a new building was constructed. The paper continued to be based from this building until 2008, when it was converted to a museum. In 1981 it changed name to the ''Eastern Riverina Observer'' and remained in publication under this title until 2003. In 2003, the ''Observer'' merged with the ''Holbrook, Billabong ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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