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The Defeat of the enemy attack upon shipping, 1939-1945 / edited by Eric J. Grove.

1996;  Eric Adam interviewed by Paul Tinslay, 3 Oct. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/1-2)
    
1995;  Keith Alder interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 22 Nov. 1995.  Metallurgist, mining and electronic engineer;  B.Sc., 1942;  M.Sc.in metallurgy, 1944;  University of Melbourne, research on rare metals for radar valves, 1943-1945;  Lecturer in Metallurgy, Newcastle Technical College, NSW,  1946-1948;  Woolwich Arsenal, UK, research on uranium, beryllium and plutonium, 1949-1951;  Senior Lecturer, University of Melbourne, 1952-1953;  research into nuclear metals for Australian Atomic Energy Commission (AAEC) attached to Harwell, UK, 1954-1957;  Head of Metallurgy, AAEC, involved in planning and equipping Lucas Heights, 1955;  Director Research, AAEC, 1962;  Commissioner and General Manager, AAEC, retired 1982;  consultant engineer;  Member, Order of Australia, 1983;  Fellow, Australian Academy of Technical Sciences and Engineering;  Fellow, Institution of Radio and Electronic Engineers. REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/3-5)
    
1997;  Stanley Ambrose interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 11 Aug. 1997. Born in Melbourne in 1926, attended school in Coburg and worked as a public works clerk.  After RAAF service he graduated as a Mechanical Engineer from University of Melbourne where he developed an interest in welding.  Career includes: British Petroleum, designing road and rail tankers and on the conversion of landing craft to serve as an oil lighter;  Royal Australian Navy,  Scientific Officer (welding), working on gas pressure vessels and boilers;  Mechanical Engineer, Standards Association of Australia (Sydney);  Chief and Research Engineer, Australian Welding Research Association;  Chief Inspector, and Assistant Director of Major Hazards, NSW Department of Labour and Industry, 1978-1989;  consultant engineer on Australian and International Pressure Vessel Standards committees.  Awards include: Florence Taylor Award, 1977;  the Standards Award, 1993 (jointly);  Wilfred Chapman Award, 1995;  Order of Australia Medal, 1997.  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/6-8)
    
1997;  John Anderson interviewed by Bob Jackson, 11 June 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/9-10)
    
1995;  Frederick Archer interviewed by Elizabeth Price, 19 Sept. 1995. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/11-12)
    
1997;  John Ashby interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 22 Apr. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/13-14)
    
1997;  Harold Ball interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 23 Jan. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/15-16)
    
1997;  Keith Bashford interviewed by Bob Jackson, 2 May 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/17-18)
    
1996;  Frederick Batten interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 6 Aug. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/19-20)
    
1997;  Thomas Berry interviewed by Frank Heimans, 23 Dec. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/21-23)
    
1996;  John Betty interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 16 Sept. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/24-25)
    
1997;  John Bevege interviewed by Frank Jackson, 14 Feb. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/26)
    
1997;  Aldis Birzulis interviewed by Frank Jackson, 17 Apr. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/27)
    
1997;  Arthur Bishop interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 1 July 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/28-29) (Also at CY MLOH 491/1-2)
    
1997;  Keith Black interviewed by Paul Tinslay, 5 Aug. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/30-31)
    
1996;  Kenneth Bond interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 1 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/32-33)
    
1996;  Francis Brady interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 11 & 18 Oct. 1996. RESTRICTED  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/34-39)
    
1997;  William Casley interviewed by Susan Andersen, 18 July 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/40-42)
    
1998;  Professor Tom Chapman interviewed by Paul Tinslay, 10 Mar. 1998. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/43-44)
    
1997;  Michael Chitty interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 15 Aug. 1997.  Civil engineer, Chartered Professional Engineer and Qualified Auditor, Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia.  Born and educated in the UK.  Worked in UK between 1960 and 1974 before working in New Guinea and then in AUstralia.  Career in Australia includes: Pearson Bridge Pty Ltd, Contracts Manager, Kings Cross road tunnel and Construction Manager, Bondi Junction Plaza access tunnel;  Mott Hay Anderson-John Connell, on Melbourne Underground Rail Loop;  1976 joined John Holland, Chief Estimator on dams and  power stations, Deputy Project Manager, Malabar, North Head and Bondi ocean outfall tunnels, Project Manager, concrete slip form of paving roads, and Construction manager on the paving of the Sydney Opera House Forecourt and  Lower Concourse Reconstruction;  Sinclair Knight, 1991-1994, Hunter Valley Mine  workshop and hardstand, and Dalrymple Bay Coal Terminal expansion at Mackay, QLD;  Sinclair Knight Merz, 1994- , Senior Executive Engineer. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/45-46)
    
1997;  David Coffey interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 18 July 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/47-48)
    
1996;  Peter Coffey interviewed by Frank Jackson, 6 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/49)
    
1997;  Ronald Colby interviewed by Frank Jackson, 9 July 1997. REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/50)
    
1996;  Clem Collis interviewed by Paul Tinslay, 17 Apr. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/51)
    
1996;  Anthony Denham interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 28 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/52-54)
    
1996;  Eric Dicker interviewed by Paul Tinslay, 4 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/55-56)
    
1997;  Peter Docker interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 18 Jan. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/57-59)
    
1996;  Jim Donald interviewed by Jon Breen, 26 May 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/60-61)
    
1997;  J. J. Doran interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 22 Jan. 1997. REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/62-63)
    
1997;  William Downes interviewed by Frank Heimans, 8 Dec. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/64-66)
    
1995;  Douglas Ebeling interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 1 Nov. 1995.  Mechanical, electrical and nuclear engineer.  Educated at University of Melbourne and University of New South Wales.  Career includes: Plant Engineer, ICIANZ Explosives Manufacture, Melbourne, 1952;  Design Engineer, ICI Dyestuffs Division, Nylon Plant Design, 1955;  Design Engineer, UK Atomic Energy Authority, Harwell, DIDO & HIFAR reactors, 1956;  Construction Engineer, 1957, Design Engineer, 1959, Chief of Engineering Research Division, 1987 Chief of Special Projects Division, 1989, Australian Atomic Energy Commission,  Lucas Heights;  Consultant, 1990-;  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia, and Chairman, Nuclear Engineering Panel.  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/67-68)
    
1995;  Emeritus Professor Donald George interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 30 Oct. 1995.  Mechanical, electrical and nuclear engineer. Emeritus Professor University of Sydney.  Career includes: Lecturer, Electrical Engineering, Newcastle Technical College, 1949;  Lecturer, Electrical Engineering, Broken Hill Technical College;  Experimental Officer, UK Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell, 1953-1956;  Senior Research Officer, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, 1956-1960;  Lecturer and Professor, University of Sydney, 1960-1974;  Vice Chancellor & Principal Professor of Engineering, University of Newcastle, 1975-1986;  Chairman, Australian Atomic Energy Commission, 1976-1983;  Deputy Chairman, ANZAAS, 1989-1995;  Fellow, ANZAAS;  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia;  Fellow, IEE;  Fellow, IMech.E. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/69-70)
    
1996;  William Goodman interviewed by Jon Breen, 9 Dec. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/71-73)
    
1996;  Edward Hooper interviewed by Bob Jackson, 2 Aug. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/74-75)
    
1997;  Peter Hughes interviewed by Susan Andersen, 9 & 14 July 1997.  REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/76-80)
    
1997;  Phillip Isaacs interviewed by Susan Andersen, 15 Oct. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/81-83)
    
1995;  Professor Warren Julian interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 21 Nov. 1995. Mechanical, electrical, architectural and lighting engineer.  Career includes:  Trainee Engineer, 1963, Design Engineer, 1969, NSW Public Works Department, Government Architect's Branch;  Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Director of Lighting  Studies, Professor, Department of Architecture and Design Studies, University of Sydney;  Dean of Faculty of Architecture, 1986- , University of Sydney;  President, National Council, Illuminating Engineering Society of Australia and New Zealand.  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/84-85)
    
1981;  Awdry Julius interviewed by John Ludlow, 23 Apr. 1981.  Transcript available. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/86)
    
1997;  Jack Knight interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 18 Apr. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/87-88)
    
1996;  Eve Laron interviewed by Bob Jackson, 24 Oct. 1996.  REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/89)
    
1996;  George Laron interviewed by Bob Jackson, 26 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/90)
    
1996;  Roy Lascelles interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 25 Oct. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/91-94)
    
1996;  Wilfred Leeder interviewed by Bob Jackson, 27 Mar. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/95-96)
    
1981;  Robert Macmillan interviewed by John Ludlow, 30 Apr. 1981. Transcript available. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/97)
    
1998;  Harry Minnett interviewed by Frank Heimans, 27 Jan. 1998.  REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/98-102)
    
1964;  Richard Murphy interviewed by Neville Whiffen, 1964.  Murphy is considered to be the 'Father of Chemical Engineering in Australia'.  An interview with Murphy conducted in 1964 and extracts from a Keynote Address given by Neville Whiffen at the first National Engineering Conference in 1965. The Address is about the 50th anniversary of Chemical Engineering in Australia. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/103-104)
   
1981;  Alexander Nicholson interviewed by John Ludlow, 10 Apr. 1981.  Transcript available. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/105)
    
1997;  Malcolm Nicklin interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 25 Aug. 1997. Civil engineer, born in Sydney, educated at North Sydney Boys High School and the University of Sydney.  Career includes: Junior Engineer, Macdonald Wagner & Priddle, 1952, surveying and laying out bulk sugar terminals in Queensland;  W.S. Atkins & Partners, London, 1957, on secondment, working on nuclear power plants;  Macdonald Wagner & Priddle, 1958-1970, surveyed and laid out Sydney Opera House, surveyed laid out and worked on three radio telescopes, one stellar interferometer, and two optical telescopes. Continued to work on bulk terminals for sugar, wheat, oil and gas in Australia and overseas;  Managing Director of Macdonald Wagner, 1970-1984;  Consultant Engineer, 1986- ;  Director, Snowy Mountains Engineering Corp.;  part time Director, Douglas Partners, Consulting Engineers;  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/106-107)
    
1996;  Peter Oom interviewed by Ian Hooper, 3 & 6 Dec. 1996.  REPRODUCTION RESTRICTED (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/108)
    
1997;  Harry Perlman interviewed by Frank Heimans, 5 Nov. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/109-111)
    
1997;  Professor David Pilgrim interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 20 Jan. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/112-114)
    
1995;  John Rankine interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 23 Nov. 1995.  Civil, structural, traffic and consulting engineer.  Educated University of Sydney, Fullbright Scholar, MIT ME, 1950.  Formed Rankine & Hill, 1958. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/115-117)
    
1996;  James Rooney interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 21 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/118-119)
    
1997;  Frank Roxborough interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 29 July 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/120-122)
    
1997;  Noel Selman interviewed by Bob Jackson, 30 June 1997 & 5 July 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/123-126)
    
1997;  John Sherrard interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 27 Aug. 1997.  Civil engineer.  Educated Sydney Boys High School and University of Sydney.  Career includes: Metropolitan Water Board, survey and concrete control on the construction of Warragamba Dam;  work in UK and Canada;  Macdonald Wagner & Priddle, Structural Engineer, on University of New South Wales Engineering School, QANTAS hangars, Unilever Soap Factory, sugar and wheat bulk terminals, CSR Pineboard Mill, Tumut, Waterloo Housing Commission Tower Blocks;  Julius, Poole  & Gibson, 1974- ;  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/127-128)
    
1996;  Rear Admiral Peter Sinclair interviewed by Michael Clarke, 30 July 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/129-131)
    
1981;  Herbert Smith interviewed by John Ludlow, 30 Apr. 1981.  Transcript available. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/132)
    
1996;  Edward Taylor interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 9 Oct. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/133-134)
    
1998;  Arthur Treble interviewed by Frank Heimans, 14 Jan. 1998. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/135-137)
    
1997;  Sir William Tyree interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 25 Sept. 1997.  Electrical  engineer.  Born in 1921 at Auckland, New Zealand, educated at Auckland Grammar  School and Sydney Technical College, NSW, graduating in 1949.  He founded an electrical business which would become Tyree Industries.  He sits on various Boards, is involved with the A. W. Tyree Foundation, has endowed the  Chair of Electrical Engineering at the University of New South Wales, the  Chair of Ear, Nose and Throat studies at the University of Sydney, and research into fibre optics and medical hearing aids. Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia.  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/138-139)
    
1995;  James Vickery interviewed by Elizabeth Price, 30 OCt. 1995. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/140-141)
    
1996;  John Wallace interviewed by Mary Ann Hamilton, 29 Nov. 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/142-144)
    
1995;  Eric Warrell interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 24 Oct. 1995. Civil engineer, consultant and arbitrator. Educated University of Melbourne. Career includes: Engineer, State Rivers & Water Supply, Victoria, 1947-1951;  Snowy Mountains Authority, 1958-1973, Engineer, Aqueducts Branch, Supervising Engineer, Scientific Services, Chief Engineer, Field Investigations, Associate  Commissioner;  NSW Public Service Board, 1978-1980;  Member, Metropolitan Water Sewerage & Drainage Board, 1981-1983;  President, Australian Executive Service Overseas Programme, 1994;  attached to UNICEF in Rwanda;  Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia, Sydney Division, Chairman, 1982, Vice President, 1981-1983, Hon. Treasurer, 1984-1985.  (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/145-147)
    
1996;  Neville Whiffen, recording of presentation of Medal of Freedom by US Government at the Australian Embassy, Washington in 1996.  See also MLOH 182/45-46 for Neville Whiffen interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 4 Aug. 1993. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/148)
     
1997;  James Wilson interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 9 Apr. 1997. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/149-150)
    
1996;  Emeritus Professor Howard Worner interviewed by Ian Hooper, 23 July 1996. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/151-152)
    
1997;  Ronald Yates interviewed by Richard Raxworthy, 11-15 Aug. 1997.  Aeronautical engineer.  Educated at Marist Brothers Darlinghurst and University of Sydney where he was awarded the degree of Bachelor of Aeronautical Engineering, followed by postgraduate study in aircraft metal fatigue at University of California Los Angeles in 1953.  Career includes: RAAF, Flying Officer, 1943-1946, testing aircraft for the RAAF and for QANTAS;   QANTAS, Operations Manager, 1946, Project Manager, 1957, Manager Technical Services, US, 1959-1963, Director of Engineering Maintenance, 1971. He was appointed Deputy General Manager and Chief Operating Officer, 1976, Deputy Chief Executive, 1982, Chief Executive, 1984, retiring in 1986;  Deputy Chair, Federal Airports Corporation;  Director, Civil Aviation Authority;  Technical Consultant to Qantas;  Vice-President Australasia, Executive Council of the International Federation of Airworthiness;  Hon. Fellow, Institution of Engineers, Australia. (Call No.: CY MLOH 286/153-156)

Author/Artist entries:
Adam, Eric, 1913-
Alder, Keith (Keith F.)
Ambrose, S. A.
Andersen, Susan
Anderson, John Barry, 1935-
Archer, F. E. (Frederick Ernest), 1913-
Ashby, John B., 1935-
Ball, Harold F., 1930-
Bashford, Keith H., 1934-
Batten, Frederick John H., 1908-
Berry, Thomas, 1922-
Betty, John G. (John Galtress), 1922-
Bevege, John R., 1934-
Birzulis, Aldis J., 1934-
Bishop, Arthur Ernest
Black, Keith S., 1912-
Bond, Kenneth Arthur, 1919-
Brady, Francis, 1928-
Breen, Jon
Casley, William Sydney, 1937
Chapman, T. G. (Thomas Grandin) 
Chitty, Michael C., 1938-
Clarke, Michael
Coffey, David Dumas, 1926-
Coffey, Peter Hilary, 1933-
Colby, Ronald Henry John, 1925-
Collis, Clem, 1905-
Denham, Anthony J., 1935-
Dicker, Eric John, 1922-
Docker, Peter B., 1927-
Donald, James, 1911- 
Doran, J. J., 1928- 
Downes, William, 1918-
Ebeling, Douglas R. 
George, Donald William, 1926- 
Goodman, William J. 
Hamilton, Mary Ann
Heimans, Frank
Hooper, Edward John, 1928-
Hooper, Ian
Hughes, Peter Wentworth, 1926- 
Isaacs, Phillip Daryl, 1932- 
Jackson, Bob
Julian, Warren G. 
Julius, Awdry Francis, 1900- 
Knight, Jack Kendall, 1935- 
Laron, Eve, 1931- 
Laron, George G., 1929-
Lascelles, Roy Wilton, 1918- 
Leeder, Wilfred Sydney, 1920-
Ludlow, John
Macmillan, Robert Edward, 1904-
Minnett, Harry Clive, 1917- 
Murphy, Richard K., 1887-
Nicholson, Alexander Scott, 1901- 
Nicklin, Malcolm Sydney, 1930-
Oom, Peter, 1930- 
Perlman, Harry, 1924-
Pilgrim, D. H.
Price, Elizabeth
Rankine, John, 1921-
Raxworthy, Richard
Rooney, James V., 1926-
Roxborough, F. 
Selman, Richard Noel, 1913-
Sherrard, John Max, 1935-
Sinclair, Peter, 1934-
Smith, Herbert R.
Taylor, Edward Richard, 1921-
Tinslay, Paul
Treble, Arthur, 1922-
Tyree, William
Vickery, J. R., (James Richard), 1902-
Wallace, John McDonald, 1926-
Warrell, E. G.
Whiffen, N. A. (Neville Albert), 1912-
Wilson, James Bryan, 1922-
Worner, Howard K. (Howard Knox), 1913-
Yates, Ronald John, 1923-

Institution of Engineers, Australia. Sydney Division - Oral History Collection, being interviews with members, 1995-1998, along with early interviews, 1964, 1981

1. [Vicleffo Scamuzzi, Olga Poletti, Brandisio Vannucci dressed for "La Traviata", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera Co., 1928]
2. [Principals (incl. Rosita Silvestri and Arturo Tamburini) of "Norma" in costume, Fuller-Gonsalez Opera Co., 1928]
3-4. [Fuller-Gonsalez (?) conductor and principals of "Faust"]
5-6. [American women's jazz band "Ingenues" and the "trackless train" to advertise MGM films]
7-8. [Gus Bluett, three men and 11 women on the deck of a ship]
9. [Woman on piano accompanies two men singing (Gus Bluett ?)]
10-13. [Theatrical party in swimwear recorded at a Sydney beach]
14. [American women's jazz band "Ingenues" on stage]
15. [Ingenues at Central Station]
16. [Sam Hood and four other photographers take Madge Elliott, Cyril Ritchard and Aileen Britton on the set of "Shadow play", 4 June 1946]
17. [Adelaide Boys' Band on stage, Sydney]
18. [Gladys Moncrieff with her Pekingese and Pomeranian dogs on her birthday, 13 April 1937]
19. [Farewell to Bobby and Betty at Town Hall (Frank Hatherlie), February 1937]
20-21. Clyde Hood farewelling Mr Ted, Mrs Leone Henkel and their daughter Jewel on their return to America, 1932
22. Dennis Hoey, star of "Uncivilised', photographed with Misses Winifred Lawson and C.Lavaretti of the J.C. Williamson "Princess Ida" company and the python which attacked Mr L. Cracknell at Maroubra [held by Aboriginal man in body paint and grass lap-lap] 
23. Gladys Moncrieff rehearsal at the [Theatre] Royal [in] "A southern maid", February 1937
24-25. [Model, painted gold, in loincloth and drawing a bow, Tivoli Theatre act (Reference: Tivoli / Frank Van Straten. South Melb. : Lothian, 2003), also  known as "Gilded Statue" dancer, State Theatre (see Home & away - 7716)]
26-27. [Group of English men with a bulldog mascot sing to a ukelele, 30 June 1937 (no.27 is F.Davis ?)]
28. [Man in knitted lace dress drag]
29. [Group of jockeys and film actors around George Nathan, a Tattersalls bookie to advertise the film "Odds On" featuring Phyllis Gibbs and Arthur Tauchert, 1928]
30. [Unloading a stage set at night, Capitol Theatre]
31. [Singer Lawrence Tibbett catches a 20lb. bonita or horse mackeral off Sydney Heads]
32. [Mr & Mrs Lawrence Tibbett on the deck of a ship]
33-34. [Lawrence Tibbett signs autiographs and leaves theatre with his wife]
35. [Portrait of Sir Malcolm Sargent]
36-37. [Madge Elliott and Cyril Ritchard in dress rehearsal of "The gay divorcee" at the Theatre Royal, 1932-1936 (?) (no.37 does not look like Ritchard)]
38. Madge Aubrey and Leo Franklin
39. [Arrival of] Lloyd Hughes, 1937 (NCY 37/558)
40-41. [Cecil Mason arrives by ship]
42-44. Victor Jory
45. [Gladys Moncrieff in the Seneschal racing car, owned by Harold S. Darke, Advertising Manager, Holeproof Hosiery, decorated for Poppy Day (Remembrance Day), ca.1930]
46-47. [Argentine and ballroom tango dancers]
48. [Women performers try on expensive shoes]
49-50. [Mo (Roy Rene) and Stiffy on the beach with children and with other comedians]
51. [Max Oldaker in "The gondoliers"]
52-54. [Elizabethan and Royal Navy] scenes at the gala night of "O Kay for sound", J.C. Williamson production
55. [Boys and men in black body paint take liquid from a barrel, Sydney University ?]
56. [Queue outside and inside Nicholson's music shop for Lawrence Tibbett concerts]
57. [Turner Twins, acrobats]
58. [Musical comedy star Dorothy Brunton reads a Sun comic to a young boy, January 1925 (DG ON4/7402)]
59. [Seamstresses sewing for a theatrical production]
60-62. The equivalent of "swing it" in Spanish is seen here in the dance performed by Joan Woodbury;  the scene is from RKO Radio's "There goes my girl" in which Gene Raymond and Ann Sothern are co-starred
63-65. [Peter Dawson performs at the State Theatre (NCY48/62-64)]
66. [Premier and Mrs Stevens arrive at a formal evening function with guard of honour from S.T.D. Schnapper Island]
BALLET
67-71. [Anton Dolin of the Russian ballet conducts a class for local female dancers;  Arnold Haskell and Frances Scully present, centre; probably the Royal Academy of Dance Studio, Sydney, November 1938]
72-80. [Unidentified ballerina in a long tutu]
81-86. [Unidentified ballet performance]
87-88. [Ballerina Anna Pavlova arrives, Central Station (no. 87 is the arrival 16 Apr 1926 with John Tait holding overcoat and Michael Pianowsky above her left shoulder;  in no. 88 Pavlova wears different clothes)]
89-93. [Backstage and in the dressing room with women of the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet, Theatre Royal (no. 90 probably Tatiana Riabouchinska, right)]
94. [Backstage formal dinner for] Russian Ballet, New Year's Eve [incl. Mr Tait, Lelia Roussova and Arnold Haskell]
95. [Ballerina Queenie Royal in a long tutu]
96. [Ballerina Audrae Swayn in a short tutu]
97. [Ballet "Le Beau Danube"]
98. [Threee women in ballet class]
99. [Ballerina in handkerchief hem costume]
100-103. [Dancing Petruchka]
104. [Ballerina adjusts stockings with other ballerinas relected in mirror]
CHORUS GIRLS
105. [Wedding cake tableau]
106-108. [Chorus girls in "Rhonrad" wheels roll across Bondi Beach]
109-111. [Chorus girls in opening night of "Hollywood Hotel" revue, Theatre Royal, 23 September 1938 (includes NCY 41/444, 449, 450)] 
112. [Chorus girls take a break from rehearsal and read the paper while sitting on a heater, J.C. Williamson, 1936 (NCY 59/329)]
113. [Women in evening gowns sing at a concert in a large house]
114. ["Gypsy" chorus girls on the platform of a stage railway carriage]
115. Grace Bros. Ball, 1936;  American set [of chorus girls in satin sailor suits with battleship]
116-121. [Chorus girls pose in costume, no. 119 probably a double act]
122. [Chorus line in swimsuits rehearses on stage]
123-124. [June Roberts, American dancer, poses on the beach while the other members of "The O'Brien Girl" company swim on a picnic organised by Dr Bohrsmann, Reef Beach, Oct 1923 (see Notes field for further information)]
125-127. [Chorus girls at the beach]
128. [Ingenues women's band with parcels and hand luggage, Central Station]
129. [Chorus girls]
130-131. [Chorus girls and commissionaires, New Haymarket Theatre]
132. [Chorus in vamp style dresses with stage curtains and large evening purse backdrop]
133. [Dressed in streetclothes (see also no.48 for same women)]
134. [Chorus line dancing]
135-136. [Chorus girls visit a winery]
137-138. [Chorus girls with male comic, Alfred Frith]
139. [Chorus girls with ship's captain]
140. [Chorus girls in swimsuits]
141. [Women in 18th century dress]
142. [Chorus girls on the roof]
143. [Chorus line doing the can-can], Montague Show, 27 December 1937
144. [Young chorus girls sit on wooden steps]
145. [Grace Bros. girls]
146. [Chorus line of "ballerinas" in frames painted by "artists"]
147-149. [Marcus Showgirls on board ship, July 1937]
150. [Chorus girls rehearse songs around the piano]
151. [Chorus girls dressed as drummers, 1938]
152. [JCW chorus girls wait to go on stage]
153. [Chorus girl demonstrates a step (see no. 144)]
154-156. [Girls in Spanish flamenco dresses, Sydney Showground]
CHILDREN IN BALLET SCHOOLS, EISTEDDFODS, PANTOMIMES, ETC.
157. [Dancers in the Eisteddfod, Railway Institue, December 1937]
158. [Gus Bluett and child performers]
159. [Italian group in fancy or theatrical dress with banner and flag]
160. [Girl in Bacchic costume with banner advertising Hardy's Tintara Wines]
161. [Members of a Maori choir before the concert]
162. [Patriotic concert during World War II]
163-187. [Child performers]
GILBERT & SULLIVAN
188-191. [Ruddigore]
192-196. [The Mikado]
197-203. [The Pirates of Penzance, including Max Oldaker]
204-206. [HMS Pinafore, including Max Oldaker and Cyril Ritchard]
207-208. [Trial by jury]
209-212. [The Yeomen of the Guard]
213-216. [Patience]
PLAYS
217. Leo Franklin and Madge Aubrey in dress rehearsal for "The gay divorcee" (see no.38)]
218-220. [Noel Coward's "Family album", and another play set in the 19th century (Bettina Welch and Madge Elliott in "Family album", nos.218-219)]
221-223. [Rehearsing a murder mystery ca.1940]
224. [Two men in hammocks]
225. [Dining room scene: three suited men and one in cloth cap look at items in a suitcase ?]
226-237. ["Let's face it for Australia" Camp Roosevelt Recreation Center "Big camp show" by 2nd Infantry Regiment;  wartime show featuring Don Nicol and Rex Dawe (among many others) ?]
238. [Miss Peggy Pride]
CONSERVATORIUM
239-266. [Carmen, 1941]
267-276. [Mozart opera ?]
277-288. [Performance in medieval dress]
289-290. [Performance with "Indian" dancers"]
291. [Gypsy (?) dancers]
MISCELLANEOUS
292. [Woman in Ziegfield style costume of ostrich feathers, pearls and satin]
293. [Helen Twelvetrees with her son Jack Woody]
294-295. [Alfred Frith arrives at Central Station]
296. [Group dressed as aviators, Sydney Town Hall]
297. [Man in leather trench coat smoking while leaning against a wall]
298. [Acrobatic act]
299. [Member of the Ingenue Band and the driver of the MGM trackless train]
300-302. [Women violinist, pianist and dancer, Wentworth Hotel]
303-306. [Ingenues Band goes to watch Stanford Baseball Team at the Showground ?]
307. [Ingenues Band at Central Station]
308. [Two men, one with violin case and white tie]
309. [Two cowboys skylark with musical instruments backstage]
310. [Comic couple rehearse]
311-313. [Irene Purcell, star of The Women, and Zane Grey, 1939]
314. [Jim Gerald and woman running in swimsuits]
315-317. [Crowning of beauty queens, one at the Victory Ball September 1941, Wentworth Hotel (?), the other at Sydney Town Hall]
318. [Performers in "wheelbarrow race" pose]
319. [Irene Purcell (?), star of The Women, in the wings in a negligee]
320-321. [Female performers ?]
322. [Woman in turban with diamante Harbour Bridge pin]
323. [Russian ballerina Anna Pavlova, conductor Lucien Wurmser third from right, Michael Pianowsky right, James Stuart MacDonald (the tall man), sculptor Sir Bertram Mackennal and next to him probably his wife Lady Agnes (far left) at the Macquarie Galleries, Bligh Street, Sydney, 19 April 1926, where Mackennal opened, on behalf of Pavlova, an exhibition of water colours by artist Blamire Young]
324. [Performer Violet Carlson nursing a cat]
325. [Nurses and ship's steward have a toast at the bar]
326. [Well-dressed man in suit and hat, Hyde Park]
327-329. [Cocktail party]
330-331. [Theatrical or fancy dress group, Sydney Showground ?]
332. [Caucasians dressed as Maoris, Sydney Town Hall]
333. [Church conference in hall with a gallery]
334. [Group of women (models ?) in evening gowns]
335. [Group dressed as Spanish dancers]
336. [Sydney University float]
337. [Clowns with people wearing large papier-mache carnival figures]
338. [Well-dressed couple]
339. [Audience in evening dress at a private screening in a (Movietone ?) theatrette]
340. [Woman and two men in "Tale of two cities", "Scarlet Pimpernel" or similar]
341. [Man singing from music to string and saxophone combination]
342-343. [Asian people in traditional dress]
344. [Pyramus, Thisbe and "The Wall" in "A midsummer night's dream"]
345-346. [Painting a backdrop and making props]
347. [Party group onstage at a theatre]
348. [Group in theatre foyer]
349. [Group onstage in 18th century style court dress, Tivoli ?]
350. ["Hillbillies", 1938]
351. [Cowboys on stage, orchestra pit with band in party hats and streamers thrown onstage]
352-353. [Performers ? (no.353 see also no.9 same people)]
354-359. [Dressing room and foyer of Theatre Royal with actresses as Africans and actors as Caucasians in pith helmets and tropical clothes, 1920's (one of the "women" is drag)]
360. [Stylish group on the deck of a ship]
361. [Tango and eighteenth century couple at a fancy dress ball, 1920's]
362. [Chorus girls as "pirates", Farmer's Dept. Store]
362a. [Woman in eighteenth century style dress, Century Theatre stairs]
363. ["Anastasia", "Harpo" and "Gandhi" at a fancy dress party in a theatre foyer or large house]
364-365. [Acrobats]
366. [Group singing "Clowns in clover" around a piano in a theatre foyer, 1920's]
367. [Caucasians dressed as Chinese group]
368. [Stylish group]
369. [Group in evening dress having drinks]
370. [Tango or Spanish couple in a marquee, 1920's]
371. [Cowboy]
372. [Ball, 1920's]
373. [Revellers help a bemused man, with bottles in a bag, to get up off the road]
374. [Choir of young men rehearse in Haymarket Theatre circle ?]
375-379. [Women in dressing rooms (no. 377 is Theatre Royal)]
380. [Debutante ball with sedan chair and "ancient Greeks or Romans"]
381. [Couple in a marquee]
382. ["Dream of Persia" at 1920's fancy dress ball, ?]
383. [Musical comedy in modern dress (but note women's short hooped skirts), 1920's]
384. ["Cowboys and Indians" on deck of ship]
385. [Stylish group with two Asian men outside theatre]
386. [Actress or singer in negligee style dress in a theatre]
387. [Pantomime dame and jester on a flagpole flying the Union Jack (Yeomen of the guard ?)]
388. [Fancy dress group including "executioner, centurion, Zorro, W.C. Fields" at Police Barracks, Surry Hills]
389-390. ["Crossing the Line" group in their fancy dress]
391. ["Gaslight" group, including a Sherlock Holmes ?]
392. [Comic act "Mrs Mop & Bucket" (DG ON4/7717)]
393. [Dance couple]
394. [Asian man]
THEATRE BUILDINGS AND AUDIENCES
395-396. [Exterior, Empire Theatre illuminated for the opening of "Sunny", 1927 (no. 395 is DG ON4/7498)]
397. [Viceregal night at "Sunny", Empire Theatre, 1927;  the Stonehavens present ?]
398-398a. [Auditorium of St. James Theatre as a live theatre, (capacity audience and empty)]
399. [Audience and auditorium, theatre with dress circle and gallery held up by columns (not Theatre Royal)]]
400. [French programme for brass band in capacity house, Sydney Town Hall]
401. [Lawrence Tibbett (?) recital with piano accompaniment, Sydney Town Hall]
402. [Exterior, Minerva Theatre, marquee announcing Mollison & Basquette in "Idiot's delight", May 1939 (NCY30/538)]
403. [Mickey Mouse films shown to a capacity house in a town hall]
404. [Capacity house, with William Szarka in the aisle, Drummoyne Kismet]
ALBUMS
405-466. [Marcus Showgirls in Sydney for "Hollywood Hotel", Harry Howard's revue (including an Afro-American dance group), Theatre Royal]
467-482. [The Gondoliers]
483-489. [HMS Pinafore]
490-545. [The Mikado]
490a-510a. [Iolanthe]
546-570. [The Pirates of Penzance]
571-591. [Princess Ida]
592-652. [Trial by jury]

1. Principals, "La Traviata", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera, 1928

2. Principals, "Norma", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera, 1928

3. Principals, "Faust", Fuller-Gonsalez Opera, 1928

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