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The Explorers (play)
''The Explorers'' is a 1952 Australian radio play about the Burke and Wills expedition by John Sandford. It was Sandford's first play. The 1952 radio production starred Allan Trevor and Lloyd Berrell. It was one of a series of longer plays broadcast on ABC that ran at 90 minutes (the others were productions of British plays such as ''The Importance of Being Earnest'' and ''Hamlet''). The play was repeated in December 1952 (in a shortened version) and produced again with a new cast in 1957. It came out the same year as another play about Burke and Wills, ''I Tell My Story''. Reception The ''Daily Telegraph'' called it "very ordinary... If the main purpose of this play was to lead up .to the tragic end of the two explorers, then they cettainly took an unconscionable time a-dying." The ''Adelaide Mail'' said "it seemed to me to be more of a documentary than a straight drama... the play was padded out too much with extraneous incidents which could have been conveyed in a sentence ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Harvey (Australian Screenwriter)
Frank Harvey (22 December 1885 – 10 October 1965) was a British-born actor, producer and writer best known for his work in Australia. Biography Frank Harvey was born Harvey Ainsworth Hilton, in 1883 in Earls Court, London, son of John Ainsworth Hilton and Elizabeth Hilton. His occupation in the British 1911 Census was "actor" and was married with Grace Hilton, . He had 3 sisters, named Maria, Cora and Caroline according to the British 1891 Census. Caroline Gladys Hilton was married to Hanns Wyldeck and from that union was born in 1914 Harvey Martin Wyldeck, also an actor, who died in England in 1989. He was the cousin to Frank Harvey, Harvey Ainsworth Hilton's son from Grace Hilton. Martin Wyldeck's son Christopher Wyldeck also moved to Australia in the 1970s and became a TV director. Harvey's father was also a writer, under the pen name Frank Harvey . Early career Harvey studied acting under Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree and played Shakespearean parts in the Lyceum Theatr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |