A History of Australia: 'The old dead and the young tree green', 1916-1935Melbourne University Press, 1963 - Australia |
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Page 153
... played cricket as he played life , with a straight bat . Nettie , in spare moments between her home duties , was giv- ing comfort to writers and artists embattled by the seemingly all - powerful British philistinism in Australia . Louis ...
... played cricket as he played life , with a straight bat . Nettie , in spare moments between her home duties , was giv- ing comfort to writers and artists embattled by the seemingly all - powerful British philistinism in Australia . Louis ...
Page 214
... Players opened a short season of five one - act plays on 16 August - Mates , by Frank Brown , The Great Man by Katharine Prichard , The Black Horse by Vance Palmer , The Trap by Stewart Macky and The Bishop and the Buns by Ernest O ...
... Players opened a short season of five one - act plays on 16 August - Mates , by Frank Brown , The Great Man by Katharine Prichard , The Black Horse by Vance Palmer , The Trap by Stewart Macky and The Bishop and the Buns by Ernest O ...
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... Players started in 1922 the atmosphere of Australian life was ' a complete stranger to the Australian stage ' . This led to bizarre situations in the world of the theatre . In any British drawing room comedy played on an Australian ...
... Players started in 1922 the atmosphere of Australian life was ' a complete stranger to the Australian stage ' . This led to bizarre situations in the world of the theatre . In any British drawing room comedy played on an Australian ...
Contents
VICTORY OF THE COMFORTABLE CLASSES | 47 |
A DIVIDED AUSTRALIA | 80 |
John Joseph Ambrose Curtin and Robert Gordon Menzies frontispiece | 116 |
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