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A New Perspective on the Presley Legend
JULY, 1986 Vol 10 No 6 ISSN 0314 - 0598 A publication of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust A New Perspective on the Presley Legend ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT? by Alan Bleasdale Directed by Robin Lefevre Designed by Voytek Lighting designed by John Swaine Musical direction by Frank Esler-Smith Cast: Martin Shaw, David Franklin, Peta Toppano, Marcia Hines, John Derum, Lynda Stoner, Mervyn Drake, Ron Hackett and Jennifer West Her Majesty's Theatre heap of foil-wrapped Cadillac bon A nets (or is it crushed Cadillacs) form a stage upon a stage to set the mood for ARE YOU LONESOME TONIGHT?, Alan Bleasdale's play with songs about the life and death of Elvis Presley. On the lower stage, Gracelands, the garish pink Presley mansion with its outrageous chandeliers, is portrayed. Here, on the last day of his life, is "The King", now ageing, bloated, pill-popping and wear ing a purple jumpsuit and sunglasses. He watches his old movies and fumes because one of his trusted "aides" is ex posing his secrets to a newspaperman. In a series of flashbacks, Elvis relives his earlier experiences, the death of the twin brother whom he believes was his alter ego and stronger half, the death of his mother while he was a GI in Ger many, and the adulation poured on him as the lean, sexy king of rock. HiS manager, Colonel Tom Parker, is por trayed as his manipulator, holding a Presley dummy and gloating over the Martin Shaw as the ageing Presley in ARE profits. LONESOME TONIGHT? and (inset) as himself Author Bleasdale wrote the play to achieve a personal vindication of Presley, London critics were not always kind of $9.00 per ticket). -
The Edinburgh Gazette, February 9, 1926. 201
THE EDINBURGH GAZETTE, FEBRUARY 9, 1926. 201 THE BANKRUPTCY ACT, 1914. Win. George Dear, 20 Maiden Hill, New Maiden,. Surrey, works manager. FROM THE LONDON GAZETTE. Vlarsden Rayner, residing at 40 Devon Road, Bagby Fields, and carrying on business at Back Green- mount Terrace, Lady Pit Lane, Beeston Hill, both RECEIVING OKDERS. in the city of Leeds, motor body and coach builder. Thomas Stephen Bowen, 37 West Kensington Man- Samuel Edge Cluff, residing at 7 Souberie Avenue,. sions, W., London. Letchworth, in the county of Hertford, and carry- F. A. Copland, 26 Victoria Road, Kilburn, London. ing on business at 40 Station Road, Letchworth David Garfield, 143 Wardour Street, London, and aforesaid, hardware merchant. lately carrying on business at Triumph House, 189 William Charles Broomhead, residing at 21 Galbraith Regent Street, London, merchant. Road, Didsbury, in the city of Manchester, and Morris Isaacson, 50 Grand Avenue, Muswell Hill, carrying on business at 1 Norton Street, Ancoa'ts,. Middlesex, leather goods manufacturer, and Victor Manchester aforesaid, metal merchant. Isaacson, of Victoria Mansions, 13 Queens Club Harriett Hands (widow), residing at 9 Cambridge- Gardens, Kensington, London, leather goods manu- Avenue, Whalley Range, Manchester, formerly re- facturer, lately carrying on business in copartner- siding and carrying on business at 64 Preston ship at 1 to 3 Leonard Street, Finsbury, London, Street, Hulme, Manchester aforesaid, fried fish under the style of Isaacson Brothers (a firm). and chip potato dealer. Sidney Jacobs, 39 Cricklewood Broadway, London. Morris Kelly, 12 Jackson's Row, Manchester, radio Edward John Thomas Beales Ollett, engineer, 16 apparatus dealer. Craven Walk, Stamford Hill, N.16, lately residing Catherine M'Mahon (widow), residing at 22 May- at 10 Cadzow Drive, Cambuslang, N.B. -
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University of Warwick institutional repository: http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap A Thesis Submitted for the Degree of PhD at the University of Warwick http://go.warwick.ac.uk/wrap/59427 This thesis is made available online and is protected by original copyright. Please scroll down to view the document itself. Please refer to the repository record for this item for information to help you to cite it. Our policy information is available from the repository home page. THESIS INTRODUCTION The picture of themselves which the Victorians have handed down to us is of a people who valued morality and respectability, and, perhaps, valued the appearance of it as much as the reality. Perhaps the pursuit of the latter furthered the achievement of the former. They also valued the technological achievements and the revolution in mobility that they witnessed and substantially brought about. Not least did they value the imperial power, formal and informal, that they came to wield over vast tracts of the globe. The intention of the following study is to take these three broad themes which, in the national consciousness, are synonymous with the Victorian age, and examine their applicability to the contemporary theatre, its practitioners, and its audiences. Any capacity to undertake such an investigation rests on the reading for a Bachelor’s degree in History at Warwick, obtained when the University was still abuilding, and an innate if undisciplined attachment to things theatrical, fostered by an elder brother and sister. Such an attachment, to those who share it, will require no elaboration. My special interest will lie in observing how a given theme operated at a particular or local level. -
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BFI Press Release: Missing Believed Wiped Bumper Christmas Stocking
For Immediate Release: Tuesday 7 November 2017, London. The BFI’s Missing Believed Wiped returns to BFI Southbank this December to present British television rediscoveries, not seen by audiences for decades, since their original transmission dates. The exciting, bespoke line-up of TV gems feature some of our most-loved television celebrities and iconic characters including Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part: Sex Before Marriage, Cilla Black in her eponymous BBC show featuring Dudley Moore , Jimmy Edwards in Whack-O!, a rare interview with Peter Davison about playing Doctor Who and a significant screen debut from a young Pete Postlethwaite. Lost for 50 years and thought only to survive in part, Till Death Us Do: Sex Before Marriage, originally broadcast on 2 January, 1967 on BBC1, sees Warren Mitchell’s Alf Garnett rail against the permissive society, featuring guest star John Junkin alongside regular cast members Dandy Nichols, Anthony Booth and Una Stubbs. Although the existence of this missing episode from the 2nd series has been known for some years, previous attempts to screen the episode had been refused with the print in the hands of a private collector. Having recently changed hands, MBW is delighted that access has been granted for this special one off screening, for one of 1960s best known and controversial UK television characters. Following last year’s successful screening of a previously lost episode of Jimmy Edwards’s popular 1950s BBC school-themed comedy romp Whack-O!, this year’s MBW programme includes a 1959 episode entitled The Empty Cash Box. Written by Frank Muir and Dennis Norden and starring Jimmy Edwards as the cane-happy headmaster, this episode was originally broadcast on the BBC on 1st December 1959. -
Australian Radio Series
Radio Series Collection Guide1 Australian Radio Series 1930s to 1970s A guide to ScreenSound Australia’s holdings 1 Radio Series Collection Guide2 Copyright 1998 National Film and Sound Archive All rights reserved. No reproduction without permission. First published 1998 ScreenSound Australia McCoy Circuit, Acton ACT 2600 GPO Box 2002, Canberra ACT 2601 Phone (02) 6248 2000 Fax (02) 6248 2165 E-mail: [email protected] World Wide Web: http://www.screensound.gov.au ISSN: Cover design by MA@D Communication 2 Radio Series Collection Guide3 Contents Foreword i Introduction iii How to use this guide iv How to access collection material vi Radio Series listing 1 - Reference sources Index 3 Radio Series Collection Guide4 Foreword By Richard Lane* Radio serials in Australia date back to the 1930s, when Fred and Maggie Everybody, Coronets of England, The March of Time and the inimitable Yes, What? featured on wireless sets across the nation. Many of Australia’s greatest radio serials were produced during the 1940s. Among those listed in this guide are the Sunday night one-hour plays - The Lux Radio Theatre and The Macquarie Radio Theatre (becoming the Caltex Theatre after 1947); the many Jack Davey Shows, and The Bob Dyer Show; the Colgate Palmolive variety extravaganzas, headed by Calling the Stars, The Youth Show and McCackie Mansion, which starred the outrageously funny Mo (Roy Rene). Fine drama programs produced in Sydney in the 1940s included The Library of the Air and Max Afford's serial Hagen's Circus. Among the comedy programs listed from this decade are the George Wallace Shows, and Mrs 'Obbs with its hilariously garbled language. -
Marie Collier: a Life
Marie Collier: a life Kim Kemmis A thesis submitted in fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy Department of History The University of Sydney 2018 Figure 1. Publicity photo: the housewife diva, 3 July 1965 (Alamy) i Abstract The Australian soprano Marie Collier (1927-1971) is generally remembered for two things: for her performance of the title role in Puccini’s Tosca, especially when she replaced the controversial singer Maria Callas at late notice in 1965; and her tragic death in a fall from a window at the age of forty-four. The focus on Tosca, and the mythology that has grown around the manner of her death, have obscured Collier’s considerable achievements. She sang traditional repertoire with great success in the major opera houses of Europe, North and South America and Australia, and became celebrated for her pioneering performances of twentieth-century works now regularly performed alongside the traditional canon. Collier’s experiences reveal much about post-World War II Australian identity and cultural values, about the ways in which the making of opera changed throughout the world in the 1950s and 1960s, and how women negotiated their changing status and prospects through that period. She exercised her profession in an era when the opera industry became globalised, creating and controlling an image of herself as the ‘housewife-diva’, maintaining her identity as an Australian artist on the international scene, and developing a successful career at the highest level of her artform while creating a fulfilling home life. This study considers the circumstances and mythology of Marie Collier’s death, but more importantly shows her as a woman of the mid-twentieth century navigating the professional and personal spheres to achieve her vision of a life that included art, work and family. -
The London Gazette, 10 November, 1936 7237
THE LONDON GAZETTE, 10 NOVEMBER, 1936 7237 Unemployment Assistance Board: Assistance AFTER LIMITED COMPETITION. Glerks, Ralph Cockshoot, Norman Spencer British Museum (Natural History): Assistant Hallifax, Alan Edward Hamilton, Harold Keeper (Second Class), Harold Oldroyd. Phythian, Leslie Piper, George Cyril Powell, Richard Henry Pyecroft, Ronald Septimus WITHOUT COMPETITION. Robertson, Allan Stewart Thomson Russell, Charles Frederick Smith, James Davidson Post Office: Night Telephonist and Call Office Wilson. Attendant, Londonderry, James Campbell. Telephonist, Farnborough, Bromley and UNDEE CLAUSE 10 (B) OF THE GENERAL Beckenham, Winifred Edith Steer. REGULATIONS. Postmen or Porters, London, Henry John Air Ministry: Assistant Mechanical and Aldridge, Spencer Llewellyn Beeching, Electrical Engineer in the Directorate of Thomas James Broom, George Edmund Works and Buildings, Eddie Gordon Taylor. Horrocks, John French Kimberley, Arthur George Lamkin, Allan John Ewart Lowen, Post Office: Skilled workman, Francis George Henry Lynn, Frederick Charles Patrick Wright. Mann, Frederick George Mann, Joe Pettifor, Robert Phillips, Charles Zanger. October 6, 1936. Postman, London, John Thomas Long. AFTEB OPEN COMPETITION. Postmen, Arthur Henry Adams (Birming- ham), Joseph Dominie Barlow (Birmingham), Executive Class, Kenneth Peter Varney. George Henry Fellowes (Birmingham), Clerical Glass, Harold Alfred Alexander, Hilton Donald Hallam (Birmingham), David Allan, Gladys Arlett, Herbert William Anthony Ryan (Birmingham), Frederick Arthur Bateman, -
Iuru!It Nrws Issued by the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to Members of the Trust
iUru!it Nrws Issued by The Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust to Members of the Trust. Winter Edition, 1967 Price 10c. LINE-UP? ERDI'S "Don Carlos" and V Wagner's "Tannhauser" are among the operas being discussed for presentation at the 1968 Ade laide Festival of Arts along with the "Tosca" which, as already announced, will feature two of Europe's supreme dramatic singers, soprano Marie Collier and baritone Tito Gobbi. F "Don Carlos" and 'Tann I hauser" are, in fact, brought into the Elizabethan Trust Opera Com pany's repertoire for the Festival, they will subsequently be toured through other capitals as part of the company's main tour for 1968. The main tour is expected to fol Tita Gobbi Marie Collier as Tosca low on immediately from the Ade as Scarpia laide season. without a peer in his own generation, will ennially timely taunts at officialdom, Finn and final announcement cannot be making his first visit to Australia at "The Inspector-General", and a new play yet be made regarding the company's full Festival time. commissioned from Australian writer operatic bill for 1968, but it is known The electrifying excitement which Patricia Hooker will also feature in the that operas such as Puccini's "Girl of the 1968 Festival's drama activity. Golden West" and Menotti's "The Saint these two singers are able to generate of Bleecker Street" are receiving ardent in an audience at every performance is A LTHOUH a tour of Asia during 1968 advocacy in influential quarters. expected to make their joint appearance will preclude appearances by the The last operatic appearances in Aus in "Tosca" at Adelaide "a milestone in Australian Ballet at Adelaide Festival tralia of Victoria-born Marie Collier, the history of operd in Australia", as time, executives of the Festival are con now acclaimed throughout the world as a the Trust's Executive Director, Stefan tinuing negotiations for the presentation dramatic singer of resource not excelled Haag described it in announcing the of another notable ballet company. -
Work-Study Program Falls to Economic Ax
Celebrating Thursday, our 20th Jan. 30, 1992 Anniversary Vol. 20 No. 19 'Sense of urgency^ Work-study program pushing Lake deal by Stephen Shaw falls to economic ax Humber is stepping up the pace in the Lakeshore campus land-swap negotiations with tfie Provincial government. Most of the major employers of work- The ailing economy may spepd up the deal's progress in by Andrew Fratepietro study students said they have managed to get of creating an economic "spark," but Lakeshore lay-off anyone, but the hopes Once again, the recession has reared its by without having to still need convincing the plan is to their had to ratepayers may ugly head at Humber forcing the college to Athletics Director Doug Fox said he benefit. discontinue its work-study program for the cut back in a few areas. opposition by the area to cut "There has always been some remainder of the school year. "It really hit us hard. We've had to houses on our property the question peo- ratepayers building — According to Judy Humphries, director of back in equipment repair and placement is going to be from the ratepayers. working on is how much flack there Placement and Financial Aid, the sorry state ple, and a lot of students are now But they're going to fight it to the end," said Humber Fox. the 30 peo- of the economy is directly to blame for the a volunteer basis," said Of added he's confident that said President Robert Gordon. Gordon closure of the program. ple employed through the program. -
Diplomatic Despatches from a Son to His Mother
DIPLOMATIC DESPATCHES FROM A SON TO HIS MOTHER John Mason DIPLOMATIC DESPATCHES FROM A SON TO HIS MOTHER John Mason With a foreword by the Rt Hon. Sir Ninian Stephen KG, AK National Library of Australia Canberra 1998 Published by the National Library of Australia Canberra ACT 2600 Australia © John Mason and the National Library of Australia 1998 National Library of Australia Cataloguing-in-Publication entry Mason, John, Sir, 1927- . Diplomatic despatches: from a son to his mother. ISBN 0 642 10797 1. 1. Mason, John, Sir, 1927- —Correspondence. 2. Soldiers—Great Britain— Correspondence. 3. Diplomats—Great Britain—Correspondence. 4. Korean War, 1950-1953—Personal narratives, British. 5. Diplomatic and consular service, British. 6. Diplomatic and consular service, British—Australia. I. National Library of Australia. II. Title. 327.41092 Editor: Julie Stokes Designer: Beverly Swifte Proofreader: Tony Twining Printed by Lamb Printers, Perth FOREWORD Autobiographies all too often conceal the true essence of their authors, instead depicting them as they see themselves or, perhaps worse, as they would wish to be seen. Collected letters are sometimes little better, concealing from the addressee, and consequently from other readers, as much or more than they reveal. John Mason's remarkable work is neither autobiography nor conventional collection of letters. From it there emerges a fascinating portrait of a man's development from 17-year-old soldier at the end of the Second World War to senior diplomat of some 40 years later; insights, too, into many of the events of the troubled second half of this century. The letters collected here are those John Mason wrote regularly, for over 40 years, to his mother and, after her death, to his sister; recounting his remarkable and very varied career over those years. -
Here from There—Travel, Television and Touring Revues: Internationalism As Entertainment in the 1950S and 1960S
64 Jonathan Bollen Flinders University, Australia Here from There—travel, television and touring revues: internationalism as entertainment in the 1950s and 1960s Entertainments depicting national distinctions attracted Australian audiences in the 1950s and 1960s. Touring revues from overseas afforded opportunities to see the nations of the world arrayed on the stage. Each of the major producers of commercial entertainments in Australia imported revues from Europe, Africa, the Americas and East Asia. Like their counterparts in Hong Kong and Singapore, entrepreneurs in Australia harnessed an increasing global flow of performers, at a time when national governments, encouraged by their participation in the United Nations, were adopting cultural policies to foster national distinction and sending troupes of entertainers as cultural ambassadors on international tours. In this article the author explores the significance of internationalist entertainment in mid-20th century Australia, focusing on Oriental Cavalcade, an “East Meets West” revue from 1959 which toured with performers from Australia and Asia. At a time when television viewing was becoming a domestic routine and international aviation was becoming an affordable indulgence, producers of internationalist entertainments offered audiences in the theatre experiences of being away from home that were akin to tourism and travel beyond the domestic scene. Jonathan Bollen is a Senior Lecturer in Drama, Flinders University, Australia Keywords: variety, revue, aviation, tourism, travel, television, internationalism desire to create a national theatre for Australia gathered momentum A in the late-1940s and eventually gained traction.1 Government support for the performing arts was introduced with the establishment of the Australian Elizabethan Theatre Trust in 1954 and the subsequent founding of new national opera, theatre and ballet companies and the National Institute of Dramatic Art, while government investment in venues for the performing arts Popular Entertainment Studies, Vol.