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Wireless Weekly, 14 March 1942, p.16.
Helene Barclay Helene Barclay i(A13208 works by)
Born: Established: 1890-1899 ;
Gender: Female
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1 A Hundred Thousand Monkeys Helene Barclay , 1947 single work drama
1 form y separately published work icon At Storm's End Helene Barclay , Sydney : 2UE , 1946 19596227 1946 single work radio play Little is known of the plot of this radio play.
1 y separately published work icon Mainly 'Pen-Sword' Poems Helene Barclay , Sydney : Helene Barclay , 1938 Z92336 1938 selected work poetry short story
1 y separately published work icon Handbook for Peace Activists : Points - Publicity - and Leads to Thought and Action ... Helene Barclay , Sydney : Worker Trustees , 1938 Z804755 1938 single work
1 1 form y separately published work icon A Bachelor Reverie Helene Barclay , Howard Carr (composer), Sydney : ABC Radio National , 1938 10407441 1938 single work musical theatre radio play

Especially written for radio, A Bachelor Reverie explores the romantic phases in Richard Matheson's life as reviewed by him on the eve of his marriage. Portrayed by two actors, the character recalls various people from his childhood to manhood.

A drifting of thoughts, hopes, dreams - some poignant, some amusing, but all strangely woven in the mellower philosophy of later years. With the aid of a metronome, indicating various measures of time, the radio enables us to travel in retropsect with Richard Matheson - a reverie not too serious, or, yet too flippant, recalling past 'selves' and past experiences - in music, mirth and glamour, disillusionment, romance and reality ('A Bachelor Reverie,' Daily Examiner 15 July 1938, p. 11).

1 5 y separately published work icon The Cedar Tree Edmund Barclay , Helene Barclay , Varney Monk (composer), 1934 (Manuscript version)x400472 Z852133 1934 single work musical theatre humour

The Cedar Tree is set in the picturesque timber country between Parramatta and the Hawkesbury River, an area opened up in the early days of settlement by the cedar cutters. The story concerns Dianella Weston who carries on the ship-building yard of her father, having been loved by two suitors, Lieutenant Verners, of the Queen's Regiment and Roger Carstairs, a rich Sydney merchant. A dissolute brother introduces the tragic touch, with comedy by the Flying Pieman. Being an 'early' Australian romance, a bushranger is included in the narrative as a several thrilling situations. Love and sacrifice are the main themes, with a good measure of sentiment added.

One of the features of the production was the dance of the animals and birds in the mountain gully, the animals including a number of native bears and a lyre bird. This aspect of the production was produced by Pat Eadie.

1 form y separately published work icon Hot News Edmund Barclay , Helene Barclay , Alf J. Lawrance (composer), Sydney : ABC Radio , 1934 19574021 1934 single work radio play

'The Editorial Department of a big modern news paper provides the setting for this new and original A.B.C. Musical Burlesque. The author has handled his subject with good-humored satire, and the presentation abounds with amusing situations. The newspaper production, with its ever recurring Problems of making much out of little, is wildly burlesqued and y hope is sufficiently akin to the real thing to bring an appreciative grin from the typical newspaperman. Topical allusions to current events are woven into the revue, and a number of songs, both solo and concerted, have been specially written. "Hot News" is a bright little number, which will set your toes a-tingling, while "Let's Go to Press" is a novelty duet in which sentiment and humor are cunningly combined. All the well-known features of a present-day newspaper are neatly burlesqued, such as "The Society Column," "The Stop Press" box, "Answers to Correspondents", and, of course the inevitable Competition, which in this case is a prize offered to the biggest Nit-Wit.'

Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 11 May 1934, p.52.

1 form y separately published work icon Sky Larks Edmund Barclay , Helene Barclay , Fred Whaite (composer), Sydney : ABC Radio , 1934 19573236 1934 single work radio play

'[The play] is about Miss Rose Bay and Dare-devil Cuthbert, who go aboard the aeroplane, “The Double Cross,” to lower the record between London and Melbourne'.

Source: 'The Skylarks', Wireless Weekly, 14 September 1934, p.7.

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