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Nell Sterling
Helen Dorothy "Nell" Stirling (nee Mamgron, 22 August 1909 – 10 November 1951) was an Australian radio actor, singer, dancer and radio producer best known for her association with George Edwards in the Sydney radio industry. Biography Stirling was born in Summer Hill, New South Wales to New Zealand-born father Henry James Mamgron, a sharebroker's clerk who was of Danish-German descent and Mary Rose Lawrie. She studied classical dance before joining the Tivoli circuit at the age of sixteen, where she then performed as a soubrette and tap dancer, before joining the Fullers Theatre in the chorus line. In 1932 she started working in radio for George Edwards as his assistant, in his production "The Ghost Train" and eventually became his business and romantic partner. The duo began working on radio at 2UE and were very successful, forming their own company, "The George Edwards Players". This became one of the largest producers of radio shows in Australia, many of which starred St ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
George Edwards (actor)
George Edwards (born Harold Parks, 11 March 1886 in Kent Town, South Australia; died 28 August 1953) was an Australian actor, comedian, vaudevillian and producer, known as The Man of a Thousand Voices. Biography Edwards was a pioneer of the radio serial in Australia. Prior to that he was a comedian, vaudeville artist, acrobatic dancer and stage performer. It is claimed that he changed his name from Harold Parks to George Edwards at the behest of Edward Branscombe, who was putting together an up-market act and did not want anyone associated with low-brow music hall, and that he took the name from English theatrical impresario George Edwards.Australian Old Time Radio entry He performed in a radio drama adaption of Robert Louis Stevenson's '' |
Summer Hill, New South Wales
Summer Hill is a suburb of Sydney, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. Summer Hill is located 7 kilometres west of the Sydney central business district, in the Local government in Australia, local government area of the Inner West Council. Summer Hill is a primarily residential List of Sydney suburbs, suburb of Sydney's Inner West, adjoining two of Sydney's major arterial roads, Parramatta Road and Hume Highway, Liverpool Road. The first land grant was made in 1794 to former convict and Prison officer, jailor Henry Kable, and the suburb began growing following the opening of the railway station on the Main Suburban railway line, in 1879. By the 1920s, the suburb had become relatively upper class, with large estates and mansions built throughout the suburb. Some of these still exist today. Following a transition to a working class, working-class suburb in the mid-20th century, when many of the large estates were demolished or subdivided, the suburb today has a "village ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tivoli Circuit
The Tivoli Circuit was a successful and popular Australian vaudeville entertainment circuit featuring revue, opera, ballet, dance, singing, musical comedy, old time black and white minstrel and even Shakespeare which flourished from 1893 to the 1950s, and featured local and international performers from the United States and the United Kingdom. The circuit suffered a catastrophic decline in popularity after the introduction of television in Australia in 1956, although embracing the new medium and feature live half hour broadcasts from Sydney. The last Tivoli show was staged in 1966 and the company briefly went into film exhibition in Melbourne. The Sydney building was leased out to various establishments until the building was demolished in 1969. The only original Tivoli theatre still standing is Her Majesty's Theatre, Adelaide. History The circuit was established by English music hall baritone and comedian Harry Rickards in 1893, following the success of his "New Tivoli Min ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Fuller (producer)
Sir Benjamin John Fuller (20 March 1875 – 10 March 1952) was an English-born Australian theatrical entrepreneur, best known for establishing the theatre company that bears his name. Biography Benjamin John Fuller was born on 20 March 1875 in Shoreditch, London to compositor John Fuller (senior) and Harriett, ''née'' Jones. From December 1884 to February 1885 young Ben appeared in a juvenile production of ''The Pirates of Penzance'' at the Savoy Theatre; two years later he was a member of Montague Robey's Midget Minstrels and later joined Warwick Gray's Juvenile Opera Company. Ben's father, John Fuller Snr., a tenor, gave up his day job as a compositor when he was invited to join the songwriter Harry Hunter's Mohawk Minstrels in October 1881. In 1889, John Fuller Snr. accepted an invitation to tour Australia with the London Pavilion Company and arrived in Melbourne aboard the ''Cuzco'' on 3 August 1889. After the company disbanded in January 1890, John Fuller Snr. decided t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lynne Foster
Lynn Foster (1914-1985), was a playwright, radio producer and writer, a script editor and television writer. She was the first woman in Australia both to direct and write a major national radio show, this being the serial " Big Sister". In 1945, she wrote a play called "Lost Generations", to aid in the sale of war bonds, and was given a letter of thanks from Prime Minister Ben Chifley. Biography Foster was born in Sydney, Australia in 1914. She wanted to become a playwright. When she was nineteen Foster won second prize in a competition which led to a job offer with the radio station 2UE in Sydney. Slowly she began to develop through short pieces for their channel until 1936 when she was writing scripts for the Broadcasting Service Association with a team that became known as the Macquarie Players in 1938. Foster preferred to work for herself and wrote for many different patrons. Her career progressed through adapting radio scripts from America until 1942 when she became ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lorna Bingham
Lorna Bingham (1912 – 10 July 1970) was an Australian actress writer best known for her work on radio and her children's books. She was a leading writer for George Edwards for a number of years, writing and producing many episodes of serial ''Dad and Dave from Snake Gully'' over a 9-year period, a series in which she also features as an actress. Born to actress Loris Bingham, both her parents worked in the theatre for J.C. Williamson and Lorna began her career as an actress. She began writing for radio. References External linksLorna Binghamat AustLit AustLit: The Australian Literature Resource (also known as AustLit: Australian Literature Gateway; and AustLit: The Resource for Australian Literature) is a national bio-bibliographical database of Australian literature. It is an internet-based, ... {{DEFAULTSORT:Bingham, Lorna 1912 births 1970 deaths Australian radio actresses Australian radio writers Women radio writers 20th-century Australian actresses 20th-cen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sumner Locke Elliott
Sumner Locke Elliott (17 October 191724 June 1991) was an Australian (later American) novelist and playwright. Biography Elliott was born in Sydney to the writer Sumner Locke and the journalist Henry Logan Elliott. His mother died of eclampsia one day after his birth. Elliott was raised by his aunts, who had a fierce custody battle over him, fictionalised in Elliott's autobiographical novel, '' Careful, He Might Hear You''. Elliott was educated at Cranbrook School in Bellevue Hill, Sydney. World War II Elliott became an actor and writer with the Doris Fitton's The Independent Theatre Ltd. He was drafted into the Australian Army in 1942 but was not posted overseas, working as a clerk in Australia. He used those experiences as the inspiration for his controversial play, '' Rusty Bugles''. In October 1948, it achieved the notoriety of being closed down for obscenity by the New South Wales Chief Secretary's Office. However, the place of ''Rusty Bugles'' in the history of Austr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Maurice Francis
Maurice Francis (4 July 1907 – 1 December 1962) was an Australian radio writer. He was one of the most prolific writers of radio dramas in the 1930s until the 1950s and was noted for his association with George Edwards. Francis was born in Durban, South Africa on 4 July 1907. He started work as a journalist. He broke into radio through offering a play to George Edwards. According to Sumner Locke Elliott who worked with Francis the author: Was capable of turning out hundreds of situations a week, often 20 15-minute scripts a day. This was facilitated by the fact that he dictated at rapid speed and as one steno finished she raced the script to the typewriter while the next episode was being dictated to another steno who then rushed it to the typewriter while a third began. Mr Francis was also capable of keeping as many as seven or eight long running stories in his head without ever getting the characters or events mixed up. A 1936 article called him "The man who supplies the ammuni ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anthony Scott Veitch
Anthony Scott Veitch (6 January 1914 – 23 February 1983) was an Australian writer of radio, films, novels and TV. He worked for a number of years in British film and TV. His feature credits include '' The Kangaroo Kid'' (1950) and ''Coast of Skeletons'' (1964). He wrote more than 100 novels, including westerns and historical fiction. Biography Veitch was born in Scotland. He moved to Australia when he was fourteen. He did a variety of jobs, then joined the church and studied for two years before deciding to leave. Veitch worked in publicity and broke into radio writing the radio adaptation of the film ''Rhodes of Africa'' in 1936 then he joined to company of James Raglan. While writing he was advertising manager for 2KO, Newcastle, and servied in the army in intelligence. After the war he focused on writing. Select credits *''Rhodes of Africa'' (1936) - radio play *''The Queen's Necklace'' (1938) - radio *historical pageant on Methodism (1945) *''Mutiny on the Bounty'' (19 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dad And Dave From Snake Gully
''Dad and Dave from Snake Gully'' was an Australian radio drama series based on the On Our Selection stories of Steele Rudd. The series is more often referred to simply as ''Dad and Dave''. The theme tune was " The Road to Gundagai". The standard accent used by actors and announcers in Australian broadcasting at the time was typically " Southern English", an upper class British version that emulated the BBC. The actual Australian accent was however acceptable only in low comedy productions as in this series "Dad and Dave from Snake Gully."John Rickard, ''Australia: A Cultural History'' (1988) p. 141 This famous Australian radio drama series can still be heard on Melbourne's Golden Days Radio 95.7FM (GDR95.7fm) every Saturday morning at 8.30am. The program is streamed around the world on www.goldendaysradio.com at that time. Dad and Dave is also heard on Vintage FM (87.6 Hawkesbury, 87.8 Penrith and 88.7 Camden) weekdays at 4am, 10:30am and 9pm & in Newcastle Newy 87.8 FM dail ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Inverell Times
The ''Inverell Times'' was an English language newspaper published in Inverell, New South Wales, Australia. It absorbed the '' Inverell Argus'' in 1925. It was owned by Australian Community Media. It ceased publication in 2024, although its website remains online as a ghost masthead. History The ''Inverell Times'' was established on 12 June 1875 by Thomas Harland, a former school teacher, and Colin Ross. Kate Bond was proprietor of the paper for eight years after the death of her husband, William Henry Bond, in 1895. In September 2024, Australian Community Media announced it will shutter the paper. 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 links * {{Off ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Sydney Morning Herald
''The Sydney Morning Herald'' (''SMH'') is a daily Tabloid (newspaper format), tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine Entertainment. Founded in 1831 as the ''Sydney Herald'', the ''Herald'' is the oldest continuously published newspaper in Australia and claims to be the most widely read masthead in the country. It is considered a newspaper of record for Australia. The newspaper is published in Compact (newspaper), compact print form from Monday to Saturday as ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' and on Sunday as its sister newspaper, ''The Sun-Herald'' and digitally as an Website, online site and Mobile app, app, seven days a week. The print edition of ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' is available for purchase from many retail outlets throughout the Sydney metropolitan area, most parts of regional New South Wales, the Australian Capital Territory and South East Queensland. Overview ''The Sydney Morning Herald'' publishes a variety of supplements, including ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
