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form y separately published work icon Time and the Bell single work   radio play   - One act
Adaptation of Troth to Toll Helen Haenke , 1959 single work drama
Issue Details: First known date: 1955... 1955 Time and the Bell
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Mayne Textiles has a new business manager who borrows money from everyone in the firm, flirts with the switch girl, "improves" the office, and eventually marries the boss's daughter. His co-workers do not approve.

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  • Characters

    The President of the Women's Freedom Society. Middle-aged.

    Agnes Tarrant - Private Secretary, about 35.

    Honey - Switch-girl, receptionist. 20.

    Rick Sinclair - the new Business M'gr. - to 30. [Verbatim from script]

    Rosalie Mayne - about 19.

    Bob - the electrician.

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    y separately published work icon Helen Haenke Collection Helen Haenke , 1955-1989 14265233 1955 archive

    The University of Queensland's Fryer Library holds a substantial collection of Helen Haenke's literary works. The collection includes plays, short stories, novels, poems, and prose, all in manuscript form. Several of these works were published, but only the manuscript and electronic text versions are included in the collection. 

         1955-1989     pg. 25l.
      1960-1969 .
      Extent: 25l.p.
      (Manuscript) assertion
      Note/s:

      • The script has been typed with a typewriter onto thin red-brown paper. The front page of the manuscript reads, 'Adapted from One-Act Play of the same title'. The play 'Time and the Bell' is an adaptation of the play 'Troth to Toll', so this radio play has been linked accordingly. The front page lists the characters in the radio play, and below that has a quote from T. S. Eliot, handwritten in ink: 'Time and the bell have buried the day/The dark cloud hides the sun away.'

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