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Productivity in manufacturing : measurement and interpretation / Paula Barnes, Leo Soames, Cindy Li, Marcelo Munoz.

SERIES 1: Papers of Marie Armstrong
BOX 1
Diaries, 1949, 1985 (India, Nepal, Thailand), 1997.
Appointment Diaries, 1954, 1960, 1963, 1965, 1968-94, 1996, 1997.
Two Address Books.

BOX 2
Letters of sympathy and other papers concerning the death of John Armstrong, 1984.
Correspondence with Dept. of Veteran Affairs re John Armstrong, 1985-87.
Various programs and newscuttings, 1959-92.
Travel documents, 1984, 1986.
ASIO (Australian Security Intelligence Organisation) files, 1954-65. Secret reports on Marie Armstrong, other New Theatre members and the Communist Party. Includes photographs.

BOX 3
New Theatre history sources & notes on talks given by Marie Armstrong, 1980s-90s.
New Theatre publications, 1948-84.
Minutes of Annual General Meetings, 1971, 1982-84.
Material from shows performed for other organisations, 1960s-70s.
New Theatre, Australia – various documents including copies of ‘Spotlight’ & programs, 1950s-93.
New Theatre 65th Birthday at Newtown, 1997.
New Theatre programs for workshops & major productions.
New Theatre administrator/s requirements discussions. 1991. 
Miriam Hampson functions – her OAM, commemoration etc., 1983, 1994.
‘A Study of New Theatre’ by B.M. Price, 1989.
Overseas trip to India, Nepal & Thailand, 1985.

BOX 4
Newscuttings, 1950s, 60s, 80s.
Newscuttings, programs, cards, 1990s.
Skteches, Parodies, Poems (2 folders).
Various playscripts.
Third International Women Playwrights Conference, Adelaide, 1994.
Tranbi Course on Aboriginal understanding, 1994.

BOX 5 
Acting Class Files:  (Notes on various classes attended and tutored and notes on New Theatre Acting School Administration) 
Training Notes and New Theatre Training School for Actors, 1975-83.
Study Tour USA, UK & USSR 1979. Includes correspondence , class notes & programs of performances attended (3 folders).
Class notes from Stella Adler Classes, Los Angeles, 1979.

BOX 6
Acting Class Files: 
Class Notes from Bryan Syron Acting Classes. – used in N.T. classes etc.
Notes on class tutored by John Styon at the University of Sydney, 1983.
Notes on class tutored by David Beer on Shakespeare.
Kevin Jackson workshop, 1991.
Script Breakdowns of classes attended on ‘The Children’s Hour’, ‘Don’s Party’ and
‘Slaughter of St Theresa’s Day’.
Very old training  source material.
Murree Hutchison Directors/Actors Guide.
New Theatre class notes.

BOX  7
Play Scripts:
‘Had We But World Enough’ by Oriel Gray. Directed by John Armstrong, 1950.
‘Out of Commission’ by Mona Brand. Directed by John Armstrong, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1955
‘Black Diamonds’ by Frank Hardy. Directed by John Armstrong, 1958.
‘The Night of the Ding Dong’ by Ralph Peterson. Directed by John Armstrong, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1959
‘Sandhog’ by Earl Robinsobn & Waldo Salt. Directed by John Armstrong, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1962
‘A Raisin in the Sun’ by Lorraine Hansberry. Directed by John Armstrong, 1962.
‘The Marriage’ by Nikolai Gogol. Directed by John Armstrong, 1963.
‘You’ve Never had it So Good’. N.T. Revue. Directed by John Armstrong, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1965.
‘Mother Courage’ by Bertolt Brecht. Directed by Edmund Allison, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1966.

BOX 8X
Play Scripts:
‘The Sign in Sidney Brusteins’s Window’ by Lorraine Hansberry. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1966 (2 folders).
‘America Hurrah’ by jean-Claude Van Itallie. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1968.
‘The Death of Bessie Smith’ by Edward Albee. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1971.
‘What’s New’ by N.T. writers. Co-Directed by Marie Armstrong & in cast, 1973.
‘The Ghost of John Davies’ by Mona Brand. Directed by Marie Armstrong & in cast, 1976 (2 folders).
‘The Awful Truth Show’ by Co-Operative of feminist writers. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1978 (2 folders).
 
BOX 9
Play Scripts
‘Yobbo Nowt’ by John McGrath. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1981 (2 folders).
‘First Class Women’  by Nick Enright. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1982 (2 folders).
‘Fifty Not Out’ by N.T. writers. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1982.
‘The New in Concert’ by N.T. writers. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1983.
‘Waiting for the Parade’. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1984.
‘Oh How We Danced’, 1985.

BOX 10
Play Scripts:
‘Neighbourhood’. Major Show that was aborted, 1985.
‘Tales from Hollywood’. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1986.
‘Absolutely Well’ by Gar Jones. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1987-88 (2 folders).

BOX 11 
Play Scripts:
‘The Death of Philip Robertson by John Tomlinson. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1988 (2 folders).
‘Reedy River’ by Dick Diamond. Marie Armstrong assistant director, 1988.
‘The Life of Gallileo’ by Bertolt Brecht. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1989.

BOX 12
Play Scripts:
‘Older Women’s Network’.  Marie Armstrong in cast, 1990.
‘Queen Christina’. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1990.
‘The Hired Man’ by Melvyn Bragg. Directed by Marie Armstrong, 1991 (2 folders).
‘The Chapel Perilous’ by Dorothy Hewitt. Choreographed by Marie Armstrong, 199?
‘Everything Old is new Again’. N.T. 60th Anniversary Show. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1992.
‘Riders to the Sea’ by J.M. Synge. Workshop. Marie Armstrong in cast, 199?
‘Portrait of an Artist. Directed by John Rado. Marie Armstrong in cast, 1994 (2 folders).

BOX 13
Play Scripts:
‘One Word We’ by Morrie Mulheran. Directed by Frank Barnes, 1995.
‘Merry Christmas Pauline Hanson’, 1996.
‘Don Juan Comes Back from the War’. Directed by Kevin Jackson, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1996 (2 folders).
‘The Torrents’ by Oriel Gray. Rehearsed reading directed by Marie Armstrong, 1998.
‘Lots More Funny Business’. Various writers. Directed by G. Falson, Marie Armstrong in cast, 1999.
‘Life is a Funny Business’. Various writers. Directed by G. Falson, Marie Armstrong in cast, 2000.

BOX 14
Photographs:
John Armstrong - portraits, productions etc.. 
Marie Armstrong - portraits, productions etc 
Theatrical performances: 'The Ghost of John Davies', 1977; 'Caucasian Chalk Circle', 1977; 'Waiting for the Parade', 1984; 'Oh How We Danced', 1985; 'Tales from Hollywood', 1986; 'Death of Philip Robertson, 1988; 'Life of Gallileo', 1989; 'Queen Christina', 1990; 'The Hired Man', 1991. 
New Theatre Conference, Adelaide. Performance of 'Reedy River' & 'Under the Coolabah Tree'.  

BOX 15
Photographs:
Marie Armstrong’s mother Beatrice (Babs) Nicholls/Tancred/Stonehouse, 1930s-98
(contents list included)
Family and descendants of Marie Armstrong’s mother (contents list included).

BOX 16
Photographs:
Growing up, 1930s-50s; development of performance skills, 1930s-90s; various workplaces and staffs, 1960s-93; friends 1930s-90s (contents list included).
Family and Friends.
Neighbours at Fore Street, Canterbury, 1940s-99 (contents list included).

BOX 17
Photographs:
John and Marie Armstrong, 1949-1984. Includes: wedding and honeymoon; portraits; holidays; friends and acquaintances; nursing home (contents lists included).
Friends mainly through the New Theatre 1950s-99 (contents list included).

BOX 18
Photographs:
New Theatre productions, 1973-1999 (contents list included).
New Theatre productions, other co-operative productions & film shoots, 1946-72 (contents list included).
‘Absolutely Well’. Co-operative production, 1980s.
Older Women’s Network performance, 1990s.

BOX 19
Photographs:
Drama Study Tour USA, London, Moscow, 1979 (contents list included).
Miscellaneous Events, 1990-98 (contents list included).
Marie Armstrong and Philip de Carle, 1970s-80s, 1998 (contents list included)

BOX 20
Photographs:
Holidays, 1947-88 (contents list included)
Tour of China ( China Friendship Tour), 1982.
Tour of India, Nepal & Thailand (with Fay Lindsay), 1985.

BOX 21
Photographs:
Annual Christmas Diners at Fore Street, Canterbury, 1980s-96.
Annual Christmas Dinners at Ashfield and Katoomba, and some birthdays, 1982-98.
Annual Christmas Dinners of New Theatre Management Committees held at various restaurants, 1982-97.
New Theatre participation in: May Days; picnics, think tanks, 1980 & 1997;committee members at Newtown premises; back stage at Wharfies Hall; Brisbane National Conference.
Various parties and friends, 1960s-90s.
Friends, 1970s-90s.

MLOH 726  RESTRICTED
Sound Recordings (Not to be issued - master tapes only. For access please contact the Curator of Oral History).
Audio cassettes:
1. Interview with George Sklar, Hollywood, 1979.
2. Morgan Gregory interview with Marie Armstrong on Women in Theatre, International Women’s Day, 1989.
3. Michael Carlton interview with Gill Falson on New Theatre, 2BL, 1997.
4. Jack Lang tape for use in N.T. production.
5. & 6. Barbara Finch. Spoken letters to Marie Armstrong, 1995 .
7-12. Marie Armstrong.

POSTERS
The Hired Man, New Theatre, 28 Sept.-16 Nov., 1991. (Call no. POSTERS 2491)
Portrait of an Artist,  New Theatre, 15 Oct.-17.Dec., 1994 (Call no. POSTERS 2490)
Lots More Funny Business, 11-26 Feb., 1999  (Call no. POSTERS 2489)

VIDEOS
'Absolutely Weill'.
New Theatre Christmas Show, 1992 (2)
Miriam Hampson Memorial.
'Here Comes Kisch!' & 'Waiting for the Parade'.
China Tour, 1984.
Marie Armstrong - TAB - Introduction to Flight.
'Promised Land'.
New Theatre 60th Anniversary Conference, 1992.
'The Hired man', New Theatre, 1991.
Stella Adler.
'Cody', 1994; Diamonds/Minding Girl.
Cody. 27.2.95. The Tip Off.
Forbidden Newtown.
'The Ghost of John Davies'.
Marie Armstrong Show tape.
Spokeswomen.
'Come in Spinner' (2)

SERIES 2: Papers of John Armstrong
BOX 22
Appointment Diaries, 1960-61, 1964-65, 1967-73, 1975-76, 1979-81
Bank Pass Books, 1960s-1980s.
Communist Party membership card, 1966-67.

BOX 23
Various certificates including Birth and Marriage Certificates of John Armstrong and his parents, 1901, 1923, 1924, 1951.
School Reports from Punchbowl Primary School, 1935; ‘The Canterbury Tales’- Year Books from Canterbury Boys High School, 1936-38, Intermediate Certificate, 1938; and Dept. of Education Infant Reader, undated.
Copies of documents re service in the RAAF during World War II, 1943-46
Correspondence. Includes letters written while on service with the RAAF), 1943-45 and letters, 1961-72.	
Young Elizabethans Tour, 1960 program, newscuttings, photographs,  and scripts for ‘Richard II’ and ‘Twelfth Night’; Elizabethan Theatre, Newtown program for ‘Julius Caesar’, 1959.
Taxation Office papers, 1960s-1981.
Photographs: Family and Childhood, 1930s-40s; Family, friends & New Theatre friends 1940s-50s; World War II Air Force service in Queensland & New Guinea, 1940s. 
Three photograph albums & a photograph wallet: Family and Air Force.

Marie Armstrong papers, ca. 1890-1999, with papers of John Armstrong, 1901-1981

BOX 1
‘The George’s wife’, Rough MS.

‘The Georges wife finished with pages’, Rough MS.

‘The Georges’ wife first half’ [Chs 1-10], MS.

‘The Georges’ wife’ [Chs 11-19], MS.

BOX 2
‘The Georges’ wife’ editorial material, 1993. Includes printout with editorial corrections by Kay Ronai, correspondence with Kay Ronai and Rosemary Tribe (Penguin), and sample page proofs.

‘The Georges’ Wife’. Typescript with author’s annotations and corrections.

‘Some papers from school 1934 onwards’, ca. 1920-1939. Includes assignments and exercise books (Monica Knight).

‘Correspondence answered August 1992-August 31 1993.’

BOX 3
‘Some correspondence received Sept 1990 to Sept 1991’, together with correspondence 1975-1978.

‘Some correspondence 10.9.91 to August 3 1992’. Correspondents include Sue Woolfe, Gillian Mears, Cassandra Pybus, Nick Hasluck and Drusilla Modjeska.

BOX 4
‘Andrew Sant 1990-92 Writers Work Place’, being letter received from Julie Gibbs, Editor Allen & Unwin/Susan Haynes re and including Jolley’s ‘The Passion and the Prose’ for Sant’s ‘Toads – Australian Writers’ Other Work’. Includes photocopies of edited typescript and galley proofs.

MSS including ‘The Silver Apples of the Moon’ for Virago Press, London, Sep. 1993 and review of ‘Love from Nancy. The Letters of Nancy Mitford' edited by Charlotte Moseley (1993), MS. & corrected typescript.

‘Chiron in Ankle Socks and Velvet’ for Independent Monthly Dec. 1993, MS.

Letter received from Nancy Keesing, 5 Sep. 1990, with enclosed copies of Keesing’s correspondence with Christina Stead, 1979.

MSS including Community Aid Abroad / Freedom from Hunger One World Dinner talk, 25 June 1992; ‘Sisters’, Apr.-May 1992; article re Barry Humphries, Sep. 1993 for Channel 4 Television (UK); ‘Memorable Christmas’ for ‘Women’s Weekly’, Dec. 1993; article for Delys Bird’s ‘The Book of Radio Plays.’

Darling Downs Press and FACP from the 1970s’, being mainly letters received, 1978-1992 from Fremantle Arts Centre Press.

‘F.A.C.P. / Darling Downs / AATE / Currency Press / Sisters Publishing, 1978-1985, being mainly letters received from FACP.

BOX 5
‘Quick at Meals, Quick at Work’ for ‘The Age’, Aug. 1993, MS. and rough MS.

‘Kate Grenville/Sue Woolfe’. Being a letter received from Kate Grenville, 2 Aug. 1991, re enclosed selections from Jolley’s ‘Mr Scobie’s Riddle’ for ‘Revisions’ [Making Stories] (1993).

Papers re RANZCP 26th Annual Congress, Perth, 13-17 May 1990, being mainly Jolley’s address, ‘Strange regions there are, strange minds, strange realms of the spirit, lofty and spare’, MS. and corrected typescript; together with review of ‘Hidden in the heart’ by Dan Jacobson (1991).

‘Correspondence (Publishing)’, 1984-1990. Being mainly letters received from ‘The New Yorker’; Viking (USA); Persea Books, NY; Elise Goodman, USA, literary agent; Viking, Penguin, (London); Sinclair-Stevenson, London; and Harper & Row (USA).

‘Central Mischief’, edited typescript.

BOX 6
‘Reviews’, 1980s-1992, being reviews, articles and interviews re Jolley and her work, newscuttings and photocopies. Includes a letter from Drusilla Modjeska enclosing her review of ‘Cabin Fever’, 6 Nov. 1990.

Reviews of ‘White Stag of Exile’ by Thomas Shapcott for Fremantle Arts Centre Broadsheet, 1984, and ‘Jump and Other Stories’ by Nadine Gordimer (1991) for ‘West Australian’ 1991, MS. and corrected typescript.

Review of ‘Patrick White: A Life’ by David Marr (1991), for ‘Scripsi’, 1991, MS.

Reviews of ‘Central Mischief’ and other works by Jolley, and letters received from Annabelle Murray-Smith (Penguin), 25 May 1992 and 27 Oct. 1992.

MSS / Views on War / ‘The Age’ Feb 1991’, being drafts of, among others, ‘Authors’ views on war’ for ‘The Age’, Feb. 1991; review of ‘Hopeful Monsters’ by Nicholas Mosley (1990); talk for Gerontology Conference Dinner, 1987; talk for Library Luncheon, WA, 1984; ‘The Shepherd on the Roof’(a monologue for stage performance)’, MS. and corrected typescript.

BOX 7
‘Inspector Blunt / Sugar Crisis / This Lorelei This Rhine Maiden / and her mother in the wheat’, 1991, MS.

Review of ‘Iron John : A Book about Men’ by Robert Bly (1991), MS.
 
‘Black Country Farm / BBC 1991-2 / for BBC ‘Short Story’, MS.

MS. extracts of ‘Diary of a Weekend Farmer; review of ‘Hidden in the Heart’ by Dan Jacobson (1991); address to graduating midwives at the King Edward Memorial Hospital for Women, Subiaco, WA, 1992; ‘Monologue Sugar Crisis Hon Dorothea; ‘The Magic of the Imagination and the Power of Suggestion in fiction’, 1992.

The ‘Monologue: Lorelei in the Wheat’; ‘Monologue for Stage [Miss Emily Vales]’, Feb.-Mar. 1992; MS. for ‘The Sisters’.

Reviews of ‘Cabin Fever’, photocopies.

‘Motherhood’ for ‘New Woman’ magazine, Jan. 1992.

Issue of ‘Tabloid Story’, 1978 Adelaide Festival Edition, featuring ‘The Owner of Grief or the Outworks of the Kingdom’ by Jolley.

‘ALM 1979-1983-84 / 1984-1986’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others including Nancy Keesing, Kate Grenville.

BOX 8
‘ALM Lurie to Jolley / Letters 1986-1988’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others including Ruth Cracknell, Alex Miller, Helen Daniel, Kate Grenville.

 ‘Correspondence 16.1.89 to 15.12.89. ALM 1989 mostly’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others.

BOX 9
‘ALM correspondence from Dec 1989 to Jan 1990 to Sept 1991’, being correspondence with Australian Literary Management (mainly Caroline Lurie) and others including Sue Woolfe and Dale Spender.

‘ALM Letters from Caroline Lurie to Elizabeth Jolley 3.1.91 to 16.8.93’ [27 Aug. 1993’, being correspondence mainly with Australian Literary Management and others, including Australian and international publishers and institutions.

BOX 10
Papers, 1991-1992 re author’s publicity tour for ‘Central Mischief’ and ‘Cabin Fever’.

Reviews of ‘Cabin Fever, 1990, photocopies.

Papers re 1991 Herbert Blaiklock Memorial Lecture, ‘Temporary Residents: The Death Bed and The Chaise Longue, The Writer’s Approach to Death; and MS of ‘Wood’ for Curtin University, 1991?

Correspondence, 1978-1991, mainly with university of Queensland Press. Includes rejection letter from Craig Munro, 30 July 1979 re ‘Woman in a Lampshade’.

Letters received, 1989-1993, from school children and others.

‘Reviews June 1986-July1987’, being reviews of works by Jolley.

BOX 11
‘Reviews 1987 to March 1989’, being reviews of works by Jolley.

Papers, 1983-1984, being correspondence with Darwin Community College staff re Jolley’s inaugural lecture for the 1984 Women’s Studies Program, ‘Chocolate has its own melancholy: a look at the portrayal of women by a selection of Australian writers’; papers re 3rd SPACLALS Conference, Macquarie University, 1984.

Papers re Melbourne publicity tour, 1992. Include correspondence with Annabelle Murray-Smith and Stephen Knight.

Papers re 1988 Carnivale, Sydney and 1988 Spoleto Melbourne Festival.

Papers re 1990 Festival of Perth, with reviews of works by Jolley and a copy of ‘Elizabeth Jolley’s The Newspaper of Claremont Street: A Stage play’ by Alan Becher and David Britten, 1986.

BOX 12
Papers, 1989-1991, re Canadian literary festivals and Jolley’s winning the 1989 Canada-Australia Prize.

Papers re 1990 Melbourne Writers’ Festival.

Papers re 1990 Melbourne Writers’ Festival and the launching of ‘Cabin Fever’.

Papers, 1992-1993, mainly re 1993 Festival of Perth including Jolley’s stage monologue, ‘Lorelei in the Wheat’.

Papers, 1991-1993, re the 1992 Victorian Association for the Teaching of English State Conference and the 1993 VCE Writing Workshops.

Papers, 1992-1993, re the 1993 Australian National Word Festival, Canberra.

Papers re Swy Theatre Company production of ‘The Newspaper of Claremont Street’ (2nd season, 1993).

BOX 13   RESTRICTED
Letters and postcards received from Helen Garner, 1982-1991.

Elizabeth Jolley further papers, 1934-1993

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