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Issue Details: First known date: 1933... 1933 Sydney Goes Bush
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'This revue is a generous measure of fun and frolic, lilting melodies and tuneful choruses, and tells the story of the visit of city folk to an outback farm. Percy Potts-Point, his fiancee Rose Bay, and her sister Elizabeth Bay, visit Dad, Dave, Mum, and Sarah, and are plunged into a series of amusing misadventures. A touch of whimsical philosophy is supplied by “Never Tire Ted,” the swagman, and “Meddlesome Mattie,” who has much to say about her neighbors. Dave proposes to Elizabeth in characteristic fashion, after learning from the New Chum how it should be done. The melody and merriment never slacken from the time the train is heard to reach Dubbo until the revue reaches its peak and finale at the local weekly dance and social, where Dad is the unconventional but entertaining master of ceremonies. Bright music, smart voices, catchy ensembles on local topics, including “The Humpy I Built for You.” “Rabbits,” “Back to the Land,” “By the Old Camp Fire,” “And the Kookaburra Laughs,” and “The Bush Cinderella” are some of the songs to be heard.'

Source: [Radio guide], Wireless Weekly, 12 May 1933, p.35.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2FC, 2NC, 3LO, 2CO, 4QC, and 4RK on Friday 12 May 1933, from 8pm.

    Producer: Humphrey Bishop.

    Cast: Dan Agar (Percy Potts-Point, of Sydney), Rene Dixon (Rose Bay, his fiancee), Thelma Foote (Elizabeth Bay, her sister), Frank Perrin (Dad, a Wheat Cocky), Loris Bingham (Mum), Arthur Hemsley (Dave), Zena Moller (Cousin Sarah), Eric Masters (the New Chum), Charles Lawrence ('Never Tired Ned', the Swagman), Bert Barton (Silo Sammy, the Local Wag), and Nell Crane (Meddlesome Mattie, the Local 'Gossip').

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