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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] |
The Mirror (Western Australia)
''The Mirror'' was a weekly broadsheet newspaper published from 1921 until 1956. It was the " scandal sheet" of its day, dealing with divorce cases and scandals. History In 1918, Victor Desmond Courtney in partnership with John Joseph Simons, became managing editor of a weekly sporting newspaper, ''The Sportsman'', which covered racing, trotting, minor sports and theatricals. They expanded the scope of ''The Sportsman'', to cover general local news and renamed it ''The Call''. The paper gained publicity from a libel suit brought by the Lord Mayor of Perth, Sir William Lathlain. They then bought a struggling Saturday-evening paper, ''The Sunday Mirror'', for £100 from Bryan's Print,Historical Encyclopedia of Western Australia, Jenny Gregory & Jan Gothard, eds, pp593 renaming it ''The Mirror'', and building its circulation during the 1920s to over 10,000, largely through racy reporting of scandals and divorces. "It was not a good paper" Courtney later admitted, "but it was a p ... [...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] |
The West Australian
''The West Australian'' is the only locally edited daily newspaper published in Perth, Western Australia. It is owned by Seven West Media (SWM), as is the state's other major newspaper, ''The Sunday Times (Western Australia), The Sunday Times''. It is the second-oldest continuously produced newspaper in Australia, having been published since 1833. It tends to have conservative leanings, and has mostly supported the Coalition (Australia), Liberal–National Party Coalition. It has Australia's largest share of market penetration (84% of WA) of any newspaper in the country. Content ''The West Australian'' publishes international, national and local news. , newsgathering was integrated with the TV news and current-affairs operations of ''Seven News'', Perth, which moved its news staff to the paper's Osborne Park, Western Australia, Osborne Park premises. SWM also publish two websites from Osborne Park including thewest.com.au and PerthNow. The daily newspaper includes lift-outs in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Coat Of Arms (radio Play)
''Coat of Arms'' is a 1937 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was a comedy for two actors. The play was one of Turner's best known. The 1940 production starred Peter Finch and Muriel Steinbeck (the latter replacing Neva Carr Glynn). Reviewing this ''Wireless Weekly'' said "The quiet treatment.. amounted almost to tonelessness in some moments. To a rapt listener, however, such a lack of boisterousness indicates no lack of feeling." The 1947 production starred Muriel Steinbeck and Leonard Thiele Leonard George Thiele Officer of the Order of Australia, AO (26 September 192214 May 1994), professionally Leonard Teale, was a well-known Australian actor of radio, television and film and radio announcer, presenter and narrator known for his ... and was directed by Frank Harvey. Turner sold it to the South African Broadcasting Company. It was published in a collection of Turner's plays. References {{reflist External linksCoat of Armsat Ausstage 1937 Australian rad ... [...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 Fairfa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buccaneer Bay (radio Play)
''Buccaneer Bay'' is a 1944 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's best known plays. The play was performed again later in 1944 and then in 1959. According to ''ABC Weekly'' it told the "story of the sinister happenings off the Australian coast in 1942, during the height of the Japanese threat to this country. Spies. Fascist agents, amateur detectives, smoke signals and bathing parties all have a part in the story." References {{reflist 1959 Australian radio dramas 1944 Australian radio dramas Australian radio dramas about World War Two Radio plays by Alexander Turner ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I'm A Dutchman
'' I'm a Dutchman'' is a 1951 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner about a Dutch artist in Australia. It won third prize in the ABC's radio play competition for the Commonwealth Jubilee. (First prize went to '' The Edge of Ice'' by Colin Thiele, second prize to '' Seven Section'' by Shaun Benson). Turner got the idea from encountering a Dutch migrant in Australia in the 1940s. ''The Age'' said the play "revealed a nice turn for dialogue and some evidence of a feeling for dramatic art. The Dutch man (Robert Cubbage) earned my gratitude by suggesting a foreign accent only and making the part commendably intelligible." The play was produced again in 1952, 1954, 1956 and 1959. Reviewing the 1954 production, the ''Daily Telegraph'' said Turner should be "commended" for the second half of the play a he "explored with considerable sensitivity the problem of an artist who is accustomed to the lambent half-lights' of Holland, being suddenly blinded by the dazzling outlines of sun bu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Australian Stages
''Australian Stages'' is a 1945 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was a verse drama. The play was published in 1945. According to Leslie Rees in the original production "with its integration of simultaneous male voices on different levels, this radio play reached the heights. But of course the strength was only partly in the method, and the way Turner could make local names ring and glow; the rest flowed, once again, from the nostalgia and heart-sadness of the man’s reflections, given in monologue." The ''Brisbane Telegraph'' said "The play's language is always expressive and often' beautiful, but it is not entirely in verse, as is claimed." According to ''ABC Weekly'' the play was a prime example of the confusion existing in many minds as to the meaning of the words “art” and “artiness,” The tricks and. artifices employed were not even effective in their phoniness. The verses were undeniably put together in tradesmanlike style, and there were many really ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Royal Mail (play)
, logo = Royal Mail.svg , logo_size = 250px , former_name = , type = Public limited company , traded_as = , foundation = (Master of Posts) (public service) (Post Office Act 1660) , founder = Henry VIII , location = London, England , key_people = , area_served = United Kingdom , industry = , products = , services = , parent = International Distributions Services , divisions = , subsid = , homepage = , dissolved = , footnotes = Royal Mail Group Limited, trading as Royal Mail, is a British postal service and courier company. It is owned by International Distributions Services. It operates the brands Royal Mail (letters and parcels) and Parcelforce Worldwide (parcels). The company used the name Consignia for a brief period in the early 2000s. The company provides mail collection and delivery services throughout the UK. Letters and parcels are deposited in post or parcel boxes, or are collected in bulk from businesses and transported to Royal Mail sort ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Neighbours (radio Play)
''The Neighbours'' is a 1945 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was one of Turner's most highly regarded plays. He based it on the town of Geraldton, where Turner had lived. The play came equal first in a 1944 ABC playwriting competition (along with ''Safe Horizon'' by Jon Cleary), out of 234 entries. Reviewing the play, Leslie Rees wrote "no writer has so specifically and sharply caught the peculiar glint of Westralian light as Turner." A copy of the play is at the Fryer Library at the University of Queensland. at Fryer Library Premise The breaking up of a family during the evacuation fromGeraldton
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Wheat Boat
''Wheat Boat'' is a 1942 Australian radio play by Alexander Turner. It was bought for the ABC. According to Leslie Rees, "the play tells parallel tales 2,000 years apart, of innocent Greek vessels pathetically meeting an armed enemy at sea. History repeats itself, but Mr. Turner asks is it not possible for some to learn of the ancestral past other than by book-learning?" The play was highly acclaimed. Leslie Rees called it "outstanding". ''Wheat Boat'' was produced again in 1943 and 1944. The play was published in a collection of Turner's plays in 1946. References {{reflist 1942 Australian radio dramas 1943 Australian radio dramas 1944 Australian radio dramas Radio plays by Alexander Turner Australian verse dramas Australian radio dramas about World War Two Australian radio dramas that have been published Australian radio dramas set in Western Australia ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1907 Births
Nineteen or 19 may refer to: * 19 (number), the natural number following 18 and preceding 20 * one of the years 19 BC, AD 19, 1919, 2019 Films * ''19'' (film), a 2001 Japanese film * ''Nineteen'' (film), a 1987 science fiction film Music * 19 (band), a Japanese pop music duo Albums * ''19'' (Adele album), 2008 * ''19'', a 2003 album by Alsou * ''19'', a 2006 album by Evan Yo * ''19'', a 2018 album by MHD * ''19'', one half of the double album '' 63/19'' by Kool A.D. * '' Number Nineteen'', a 1971 album by American jazz pianist Mal Waldron * ''XIX'' (EP), a 2019 EP by 1the9 Songs * "19" (song), a 1985 song by British musician Paul Hardcastle. * "Nineteen", a song by Bad4Good from the 1992 album ''Refugee'' * "Nineteen", a song by Karma to Burn from the 2001 album ''Almost Heathen''. * "Nineteen" (song), a 2007 song by American singer Billy Ray Cyrus. * "Nineteen", a song by Tegan and Sara from the 2007 album '' The Con''. * "XIX" (song), a 2014 song by S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
