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Morris Unicomb
John Robert Unicomb (4 July 1928 – 13 August 2012) was an Australian actor and stage manager who had early successes in radio and was later influential in the history of theatre in Tasmania. His brother Morris Unicomb was also a successful actor. The surname has often been mis-spelled "Unicombe". Career Unicomb was the eldest son of Morris Britain Unicomb (born 14 July 1900) and Beatrice Mary Unicomb, née Warburton, (died 11 August 1990) of Dulwich Hill, New South Wales, who encouraged the development their sons' vocal talents. He had successes in elocution and recitation competitions in the eisteddfods which in the first half of the 20th-century were a vital aspect of Australian performing arts. He embarked on an Arts course at Sydney University but abandoned studies for a career in radio drama, at that time a flourishing field in both ABC and commercial networks. He played Terry O'Riordan in Chauvel's film ''Sons of Matthew'', becoming great friends with John Ewart, whom h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dulwich Hill
Dulwich Hill is a suburb in the Inner West of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is 7.5 kilometres south-west of the Sydney central business district, in the local government area of Inner West Council. Dulwich Hill stretches south to the shore of the Cooks River. History The suburb takes its name from the area of Dulwich in London. The name Dulwich Hill appears in Sands Directory of 1892. It had been known by several different names prior to this. Following European settlement, it was called ''Petersham Hill''. It later took the name ''Wardell's Bush'', a reference to Dr Robert Wardell, one of the area's early landowners. Other names the area was given were ''South Petersham'' and ''Fern Hill''. The area became part of Sydney's expanding tram network in 1889 and, like many suburbs in the Inner West, experienced rapid growth in the early twentieth century. As a consequence, the suburb has a large number of examples of Australian Federation architecture. It a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ralph Peterson (writer)
Ralph Wilton Peterson (21 February 1921 – 2 November 1996) was an Australian writer (dramatist and playwright), actor and producer of film, theatre, radio and TV. He went to London and achieved fame with the success of his play '' The Square Ring'', which was turned into a film of the same name in 1953. He married the Australian actress Betty Lucas in 1946; their son, Joel Patterson (1957–2017), became a cinematographer. Biography Peterson was born in Adelaide, the only son of Ralph A. and Daphne (née Coulter) Peterson, and became involved in theatre and journalism in his teens. He got work on radio playing one of the students on the show '' Yes, What?'' (1937–41) which became very popular. Peterson started writing episodes. When the show ended Peterson moved to Sydney and worked as an announcer on 2UE before joining the army. He served as an artillery officer and in the First Australian Broadcasting Control Unit. He appeared in plays at the Metropolitan Theatre an ... [...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 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Blue Hills (radio Serial)
''Blue Hills'' was an Australian radio serial that was broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) for 27 years, from 28 February 1949 to 30 September 1976. It ran for a total of 5,795 episodes, and was at one time the world's longest-running radio serials. Each episode lasted 15 minutes. Created and written by Gwen Meredith, the series focuses on families who reside in a typical Australian country town, called "Tanimbla". The series title itself related to the residence of Dr. Gordon, the local G.P. Blue Hills succeeded another Gwen Meredith serial '' The Lawsons'', with many of the same themes and characters, and which ran for 1,299 episodes. History: background Blue Hills followed an earlier similar style series written by Gwen Meredith called '' The Lawsons'', which was the brainchild of play editor Leslie Rees and Frank Clewlow of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (then Commission), which had been approached by Government in 1943 to public ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The North Western Courier
''The Courier'' is a tabloid newspaper published in Narrabri, New South Wales, Australia, since 1873. ''The Courier'' has also been published as ''The North Western Courier'', ''The Narrabri Herald and Northern Districts' Advertiser'' and ''The Narrabri Age and Namoi District Newspaper''. History ''The Narrabri Herald and Northern Districts' Advertiser'' was first published in 1873 and ''The Narrabri Age and Namoi District Newspaper'' was first published in 1894. Both of these newspapers ceased publication on 23 December 1912 and were incorporated into ''The North Western Courier'' which was first published on 7 January 1913. In its first issue ''The North Western Courier'' claimed it would support liberal politics. ''The North Western Courier'' shortened its name to ''The Courier'' in 1967 but changed the name back to ''The North Western Courier'' in 1976. The name was shortened again to ''The Courier'' in 1982 and it is still published under that name. Digitisation The paper ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Burrowa News
The ''Burrowa News and Marengo, Binalong, Murrumburrah and Cootamundra Reporter'' (also published as the ''Burrowa News'') was a weekly English language newspaper published in Boorowa, New South Wales, Australia. History First published 1873 by George Eason, the ''Burrowa News and Marengo, Binalong, Murrumburrah and Cootamundra Reporter'' was published until 26 January 1951. The paper was continued by the ''Boorowa News''. Digitisation The paper has been digitised as part of the Australian Newspapers Digitisation Program project of the National Library of Australia in cooperation with the State Library of New South Wales. See also * List of newspapers in Australia * List of newspapers in New South Wales This is a list of newspapers in New South Wales in Australia. List of newspapers in New South Wales (A) List of newspapers in New South Wales (B) List of newspapers in New South Wales (C) List of newspapers in New South Wales (D) Li ... References External l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Pioneer (Yorketown)
''The'' is a grammatical Article (grammar), article in English language, English, denoting nouns that are already or about to be mentioned, under discussion, implied or otherwise presumed familiar to listeners, readers, or speakers. It is the definite article in English. ''The'' is the Most common words in English, 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 nouns 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 con ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Blue Bird (play)
''The Blue Bird'' () is a 1908 play by Belgian playwright and poet Maurice Maeterlinck. It premiered on 30 September 1908 at Konstantin Stanislavski's Moscow Art Theatre, and was presented on Broadway in 1910. It was translated into English by Alexander Teixeira de Mattos. In 1919 Maeterlinck was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. The French composer Albert Wolff wrote an opera (first performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera in 1919) based on Maeterlinck's original play, and Maeterlinck's inamorata Georgette Leblanc produced a novelization. The story is about a girl called ''Mytyl'' and her brother ''Tyltyl'' seeking happiness, represented by ''The Blue Bird of Happiness'', aided by the good fairy ''Bérylune''. Maeterlinck also wrote a relatively little known sequel to ''The Blue Bird'' titled ''The Betrothal; or, The Blue Bird Chooses''. The play has been adapted for several films and a TV series. Story In the opening scene, the two children gleefully describe t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
National Library Of Australia
The National Library of Australia (NLA), formerly the Commonwealth National Library and Commonwealth Parliament Library, is the largest reference library in Australia, responsible under the terms of the ''National Library Act 1960'' for "maintaining and developing a national collection of library material, including a comprehensive collection of library material relating to Australia and the Australians, Australian people", thus functioning as a national library. It is located in Parkes, Australian Capital Territory, Parkes, Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, ACT. Created in 1960 by the ''National Library Act'', by the end of June 2019 its collection contained 7,717,579 items, with its manuscript material occupying of shelf space. The NLA also hosts and manages the Trove cultural heritage discovery service, which includes access to the Australian Web Archive and National edeposit (NED), a large collection of digitisation, digitised newspapers, official documents, manuscrip ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hobart
Hobart ( ) is the capital and most populous city of the island state of Tasmania, Australia. Located in Tasmania's south-east on the estuary of the River Derwent, it is the southernmost capital city in Australia. Despite containing nearly half of Tasmania's population, Hobart is the least-populated Australian state capital city, and second-smallest by population and area after Darwin if territories are taken into account. Material was copied from this source, which is available under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License Its skyline is dominated by the kunanyi / Mount Wellington, and its harbour forms the second-deepest natural port in the world, with much of the city's waterfront consisting of reclaimed land. The metropolitan area is often referred to as Greater Hobart, to differentiate it from the City of Hobart, one of the seven local government areas that cover the city. It has a mild maritime climate. The city lies on country which was known by the l ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Tribune (Sydney)
''The Tribune'' or ''Tribune'' is the name of various newspapers: United States Daily California *''Oakland Tribune'' * ''The Tribune'' (San Luis Obispo) * ''The San Diego Union-Tribune'' *''San Gabriel Valley Tribune'' Indiana *''Kokomo Tribune'' *''News and Tribune'', New Albany, formerly called ''The Tribune'' *'' Peru Tribune'' * ''The Tribune'', Seymour *''South Bend Tribune'' *''Tribune-Star'', Terre Haute, a successor to the ''Terre Haute Tribune'' Iowa *''Ames Tribune'' *''Des Moines Tribune'' Ohio *''Coshocton Tribune'' *''Ironton Tribune'' Pennsylvania *''The Meadville Tribune'' *''Philadelphia Tribune'' Other *''The Albuquerque Tribune'', New Mexico *''Bismarck Tribune'', North Dakota *''Chicago Tribune'', Illinois *''Columbia Daily Tribune'', Missouri, also called the ''Tribune'' *''Grand Haven Tribune'', Michigan *''Great Bend Tribune'', Kansas *''Great Falls Tribune'', Montana *''Greeley Tribune'', Colorado *''Hastings Tribune'', Nebraska *''La Crosse Tribune'', W ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vietnam War
The Vietnam War (1 November 1955 – 30 April 1975) was an armed conflict in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia fought between North Vietnam (Democratic Republic of Vietnam) and South Vietnam (Republic of Vietnam) and their allies. North Vietnam was supported by the Soviet Union and China, while South Vietnam was supported by the United States and other anti-communist nations. The conflict was the second of the Indochina wars and a proxy war of the Cold War between the Soviet Union and US. The Vietnam War was one of the postcolonial wars of national liberation, a theater in the Cold War, and a civil war, with civil warfare a defining feature from the outset. Direct United States in the Vietnam War, US military involvement escalated from 1965 until its withdrawal in 1973. The fighting spilled into the Laotian Civil War, Laotian and Cambodian Civil Wars, which ended with all three countries becoming Communism, communist in 1975. After the defeat of the French Union in the First Indoc ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
