Musette Morell Explained

Musette Morell
Birth Date:1898
Birth Name:Moyna Ann Martin
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Death Place:Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia

Musette Morell (1898 – 29 September 1950) was an Australian playwright and children's writer. She wrote both for the stage and for radio.

Born Moyna Ann Martin in 1898,[1] she began writing poetry and short stories for magazines including The New Triad, The Bulletin and The Australian Woman's Mirror during the late 1920s.

With theatre director Duncan Macdougall, she produced plays at the Playbox Theatre in 1930 and 1931,[2] having earlier written about his efforts to establish that community theatre in Sydney in 1927.[3] Her first play, The Wife Exchange, was performed at the Tom Thumb Theatre in February 1934,[4] followed later that year by Take It or Leave It.[5]

She wrote a number of plays which were produced for radio by the ABC. She was also skilled in adapting children's classics, such as Gulliver's Travels and The Water Babies as radio serials for a young audience.[6] [7] Her two books for children, The Antics of Algy and Bush Cobbers, were published from successful radio serials she had written for the ABC.[8] Bush Cobbers was highly commended at the 1948 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards.[9] Three Radio Plays included Webs of Our Weaving, one of six Australian plays selected by the ABC to commemorate Australian's Jubilee in 1951.[10]

Morell died at her home in Hornsby, New South Wales on 29 September 1950.[11]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Musette Morell. 2021-10-05. AusStage.
  2. Web site: The Wife Exchange. 2021-10-05. AusStage.
  3. News: Morell. Musette. 14 August 1927. Sydney's First Art Theatre. 22. The Daily Telegraph. 16. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  4. News: 13 January 1934. "The Wife Exchange". 10. The Sydney Morning Herald. 29,962. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  5. News: 31 January 1934. People of the Week. 9. The World's News. 1677. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  6. News: 15 April 1940. National Children's Session Publicity. 3. Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  7. News: 29 May 1940. Radio Programme Features. 2. Ouyen Mail. 1553. Victoria, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  8. News: 14 December 1946. Fun and Fancy For Children. 16. The Argus (Melbourne). 31,292. Victoria, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  9. Web site: Musette Morell. 2021-10-05. AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. en.
  10. News: 30 December 1950 . ABC Jubilee Productions of Radio Plays both Old and New . en . 12 . 26 . Trove . 52 . 2023-08-31.
  11. News: 30 September 1950. Family Notices. 42. The Sydney Morning Herald. 35,188. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  12. News: 27 August 1935. Censorship Burlesque. 5. 7. The Daily Telegraph. 165. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.
  13. News: 22 May 1937. Broadcasting Programmes for Weekend. II. 17. The Daily Telegraph. 53. New South Wales, Australia. National Library of Australia. 5 October 2021.

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