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Don's Party (278 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Don's Party is a 1971 play by David Williamson set during the 1969 Australian federal election. The play opened on 11 August 1971 at The Pram Factory theatre

Officer 666 (1916 film) (633 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

before Niblo returned to America in June 1915. It was mostly shot at J. C. Williamson's film studio in Melbourne with some location work. Although completed

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford (1916 film) (910 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Get-Rich-Quick Wallingford is a 1916 Australian silent comedy film directed by Fred Niblo. The film was the first made by the film unit of theatrical firm

The Multi-Coloured Umbrella (710 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Multi-Coloured Umbrella is a 1957 Australian stage play written by Barbara Vernon. It was produced professionally, was adapted for television and radio

Within the Law (1916 film) (915 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Within the Law is a 1916 Australian silent film based a play of the same name by Bayard Veiller. The leading role was played by American stage star Muriel

Within Our Gates (1915 film) (953 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Within Our Gates, also known as Deeds that Won Gallipoli, is a 1915 Australian silent film about Australia's fight with the German Empire and the Ottoman

The Time Is Not Yet Ripe (219 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

The Time Is Not Yet Ripe is a 1912 Australian play by Louis Esson. It is a political comedy and is Esson's best known work. It was first produced by the

Blue Mountain Melody (258 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Blue Mountain Melody (also seen as The Blue Mountains Melody) is a 1934 Australian musical comedy. The musical is set in and around Sydney, Australia;

Doug Elliot (politician) (242 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

thirteen, after which he attended night school while working. He joined J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and then from 1934 became a radio and television

Pommy (play) (343 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

Pommy is a play written by W. P. Lipscomb and John Watson in the late 1940s. An Englishman arrives in Australia and works on a station. The story was originally

Gaston Mervale (309 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

on stage in the UK he came to Australia in late 1897 to work for J.C. Williamson's. After returning to England he then appeared on stage for several

The Girl in the Taxi (1,024 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

farces" The piece toured internationally, including a production by J. C. Williamson's opera company in Australasia in 1915, starring Workman. Film versions

Struck Oil (942 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

theatre-goers, was popular with the Australian public and the basis of J. C. Williamson's success as a theatre entrepreneur. A film based on the play and directed

The Cingalee (2,154 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

33 performances. A production in Sydney, Australia, in May 1905 by J C Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company, opened on 6 May, starring Margaret Thomas

Lloyd Lamble (1,445 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

started in 1934 when he was chosen for the lead juvenile role in J.C. Williamson’s production of Fresh Fields. Two years later he played the role of

Bettina Welch (811 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

In Sydney she won a competition that led to her being trained by J. C. Williamson's theatre company, and she also began acting on Australian radio. Her

Edouard Borovansky (1,911 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the public would pay to see". However, as his company was funded by J. C. Williamson's, they dictated what the company could do. Borovansky's company had

Sidney Bracey (879 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

University. He began his stage career in Australia in the 1890s, with J. C. Williamson's comic opera companies. On Broadway, in 1900, he appeared as the tenor

William Cade (366 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

and married that year. For the next 16 years he was associated with J. C. Williamson's company, while also conducting cinema orchestras and the Theatre Royal

Thelma Scott (1,100 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Constant Nymph. Based on this, she was offered a six-year contract with J. C. Williamson's theatre company, with the intention of grooming her for musical comedy

Clara T. Bracy (756 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

The Lady of the Locket at the Criterion Theatre. They then joined J. C. Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company, performing in Gilbert and Sullivan and

Garrick Theatre (Sydney) (740 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Following Rickards death the Tivoli Theatre continued to operate until J. C. Williamson's closed it down in 1929. New Tivoli Theatre, Sydney Tivoli circuit

Mona Barrie (968 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

production of The Merry Widow. For the next 10 years, she performed for J.C. Williamson's, mostly in musical comedies and earning a popular reputation, appearing

Dorothy Cumming (826 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

appearing on stage from 1907. In 1911 she appeared with Enid Bennett in J. C. Williamson's production Everywoman. In 1915 she appeared in the 6 reel J.C. Williamson

Ned Kelly (musical) (1,274 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

English and Jeannie Lewis, produced by Packer in partnership with J.C. Williamson's. "We're dealing with something that will be as big as Hair," said

John Alden (theatre) (434 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

1943 he directed Shakespeare productions at the Theatre Royal for J. C. Williamson's Austral-American Productions. He then took a group to Japan to entertain

Vlasta Novotna (515 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Advertisement, Auckland Star (October 10, 1913): 12. via PapersPast "J. C. Williamson's New Comic Opera Company" The Daily News (March 13, 1914): 7. via Trove

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years later at Her Majesty's Theatre, Melbourne. He remained with J. C. Williamson's (as general manager from 1913) until 1916, when he joined his brothers

Sydney Deane (904 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Deane moved to Melbourne after accepting an offer to appear with J.C. Williamson's theatrical troupe. Deane "possessed a magnificent tenor voice" and

Phyllis Danaher (420 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

during its 1929 Australian Tour and in the 1930s, she performed in J. C. Williamson's musicals. In 193, she became a co-owner of Hollinshed's school, where

Enid Bennett (1,464 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Australian Imperial Force. In the early part of 1915, theatre agents J. C. Williamson's decided to make short films of some of their popular plays, to forestall

Zora Cross (1,165 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with Cherry Abraham's Comedy Costume Company in Queensland and with J. C. Williamson's theatre company. On 11 March 1911, she married fellow actor Stuart

John Amadio (928 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Bowl. Amadio's first professional job as principal flute was with J. C. Williamson's Italian Opera Company. There, in 1902 he accompanied the French-American

Allan Davis (director) (788 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

theaters from 1954 on but returned to Australia in the 1960s to tour for J.C. Williamson's. He directed No sex please, we're British for 16 years, from 1971

Those Who Love (1926 film) (876 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article

whose daughter Elaine had a part in the film. Dr McDonagh had been J. C. Williamson's surgeon and the film was distributed commercially by J. C. Williamson

Primrose (musical) (1,371 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Theatre in April 1925, before touring nationally. It was produced by J. C. Williamson's company. The show was not produced on Broadway, where it would have

Googie Withers (2,439 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

established by Isla Baring OAM, the daughter of Sir Frank Tait of J. C. Williamson's to support young Australian performing artists in the UK. She was

Albert Arlen (1,079 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

was so popular that extra seating in the aisles had to be arranged. J. C. Williamson's directors Sir Frank Tait and John McCallum attended the final performance

Lyndel Rowe (498 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

the Toreadors, Arms and the Man, Ghost Train; toured Australia with J.C. Williamson's Goodnight Mrs. Puffin (by Arthur Lovegrove), with Irene Handl. Travelling

Gladys Moncrieff (1,639 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mother. In Sydney she auditioned for Hugh J. Ward for a position in J. C. Williamson's theatre. She was successful, and with a starting salary of £3 per

John Lanigan (tenor) (696 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

amateur tenor and his mother was a professional singer, a member of J. C. Williamson's Gilbert and Sullivan company under the name Lucy Colahan. Lanigan

Adeline Genée (1,406 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Sydney. In 1916, she went on a sixteen-week tour of Australia with J. C. Williamson's company. The Australian navy wildly cheered her dancing a hornpipe

James Allison (theatre) (1,018 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

were operating the Queen's Theatre, Sydney, and managed Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Williamson's first Sydney appearance. When Lazar took the Williamsons to Melbourne

Frank Thring (2,009 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Melbourne Grammar School. His father was the head of the theatrical firm J. C. Williamson's in the 1920s, and subsequently founded the theatre film production

Her Majesty's Theatre, Brisbane (1,195 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

produced plays at the theatre. The theatre was the largest in Brisbane. J.C. Williamson's company held the lease on the theatre for over 80 years. Films were

Filmzauber (1,417 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

that theatre, and the production was considered a modest success. J. C. Williamson's opera company toured The Girl on the Film in Australasia in 1915.

Louis Nowra (2,060 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

through his uncle Bob Herbert (or Bob Herbert-Hay), a stage manager for J. C. Williamson's productions. In the early 1970s he walked out of his Australian literature

Wendy Stapleton (1,793 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At nine years old, Stapleton appeared in J. C. Williamson’s 1963 production of Noël Coward's Sail Away at Her Majesty's Theatre

Apollo Granforte (1,117 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Nellie Melba. During Granforte's subsequent tour of Australia in J. C. Williamson's 1932 Grand Opera season, Frank Thring Sr.'s Melbourne-based Efftee

Anne Charleston (1,611 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

Mother Dear, Blithe Spirit and Children's Day. She also appeared in J C Williamson's Woman in a Dressing Gown starring Googie Withers, Juggler's Three for

Henry Bracy (1,801 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Student, and The Lady of the Locket at the Criterion Theatre. For J. C. Williamson's Royal Comic Opera Company, he had performed in Iolanthe in 1888, and

Edward Howell (actor) (896 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

brought to Australia with his brother, Lewis, and father to appear in J. C. Williamson's stage production of The Blue Bird by Belgian playwright Maurice Maeterlinck

Huntley Wright (1,791 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

depicting Bertie Wright singing "I'm waiting here for Minnie" in J. C. Williamson's production of Our Miss Gibbs, 1910 The Times, obituary, 14 July 1941

Beryl Bryant (1,579 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Church of England Girls Grammar School in Melbourne. Bryant joined J. C. Williamson's Criterion Company in 1917, playing in The Outcast, produced by Hugh

Charles H. Workman (1,978 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

D'Oyly Carte singer, playing in Gilbert and Sullivan, again with J. C. Williamson's company. Adams died suddenly of heart failure on that tour in Calcutta

Courtice Pounds (2,955 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

travelled to Australia, appearing in the first half of 1896 with J. C. Williamson's opera company in Yeomen, The Gondoliers, Miss Decima, The Vicar of

Alice Barnett (1,888 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Queen, Lady Blanche in Princess Ida and Katisha in The Mikado) with J. C. Williamson's opera company. London's The Era noted, "Reports received lately from

Phil K. Walsh (1,645 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Gentleman Bushranger. In 1922 he was in Wagga, as road manager for J. C. Williamson's White-headed Boys touring company. In 1923 he returned to Australia

Joan Sutherland (6,560 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

established by Isla Baring OAM, the daughter of Sir Frank Tait of J. C. Williamson's to support young Australian performing artists in the UK. Sir Frank

Frederick Federici (2,234 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

with his wife and children, then travelled to Australia to join J. C. Williamson's company with which, in July 1887, he played Florian at the Princess

Academy of Music, Adelaide (2,062 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

mounted the play in Queensland, New South Wales, and Victoria, but J. C. Williamson's threatened Bayless with legal action if they played it in Adelaide

Leonora Braham (2,572 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Princess Ida, H.M.S. Pinafore, The Mikado, Patience, and Iolanthe with J. C. Williamson's opera company (along with other ex-D'Oyly Carte players such as Alice

Gustave Slapoffski (1,689 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Royal Academy of Music in London. Slapoffski was musical director of J. C. Williamson's seasons of grand opera from 1919 to 1922 and for Williamson's successful

May Hollinworth (6,379 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

audience, critics and theatre staff. In 1944, "[at] a luncheon, given by J. C. Williamson's stage manager .. for May Hollinsworth [sic], ... a rare tribute was

Will Quintrell (701 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

(1930s–1940s) During the 1930s, Quintrell left the Tivoli and joined J.C. Williamson's company. He worked for the Regent Theatre in his final years, and

The Sorcerer (8,332 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

the present. See, e.g., this photo of Viola Wilson Tait as Aline in J. C. Williamson's 1941 production, accessed 16 August 2010 "The Sorcerer" 1915 revival

John Pinder (comedy producer) (2,635 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

Repertory Society. They had a workshop and free access to much of J. C. Williamson's work. At university, Pinder got "roped in" to designing sets, and

Fernande Glyn (1,576 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

Australia and in mid-1959 both were appearing in Melbourne as part of J. C. Williamson's Shakespeare Company in a production of The Merchant of Venice. Glyn

Corrick Family Entertainers (2,345 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

church organs. Amy was a well-regarded flautist, and was retained by J. C. Williamson's for tours of Western Australia for some years. Gertie and Amy died

Annunciata Garrotto (2,355 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

they went on tour throughout Australia as principal singers with J. C. Williamson's opera company for the 1940-1941 season. By May 1941 Garrotto was back

George Kunkel (actor, born 1866) (3,014 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article

he was engaged at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide as Doc Smikfins in J. C. Williamson's musical A Runaway Girl. In 1903 he became the stage manager as well

Beatrice Irwin (21,667 words) [view diff] exact match in snippet view article find links to article

book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link) "The Drama; Mr. J. C. Williamson's Plans". The Daily Telegraph. Sydney, Australia. 20 Jul 1907. p. 9

Kitty Bluett (4,145 words) [view diff] no match in snippet view article find links to article

George Gee 1936: The Jesters with her father, Fred Bluett 1937: J. C. Williamson’s corps de ballet - she became a soloist in 1938 1938: No, No Nanette