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Born | Moyna Ann Martin 1898 |
Died | 29 September 1950 Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 51–52)
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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, [2] The Bulletin [3] and The Australian Woman's Mirror [4] during the late 1920s.
With theatre director Duncan Macdougall, she produced plays at the Playbox Theatre in 1930 and 1931, [5] having earlier written about his efforts to establish that community theatre in Sydney in 1927. [6] Her first play, The Wife Exchange, was performed at the Tom Thumb Theatre in February 1934, [7] followed later that year by Take It or Leave It. [8]
She wrote a number of plays which were produced for radio by the ABC. [9] 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. [10] [11] Her two books for children, The Antics of Algy and Bush Cobbers, were published from successful radio serials she had written for the ABC. [12] Bush Cobbers was highly commended at the 1948 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. [13] Three Radio Plays included Webs of Our Weaving, one of six Australian plays selected by the ABC to commemorate Australian's Jubilee in 1951. [14]
Morell died at her home in Hornsby, New South Wales on 29 September 1950. [15]
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Musette Morell | |
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Born | Moyna Ann Martin 1898 |
Died | 29 September 1950 Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia | (aged 51–52)
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Notable works |
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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, [2] The Bulletin [3] and The Australian Woman's Mirror [4] during the late 1920s.
With theatre director Duncan Macdougall, she produced plays at the Playbox Theatre in 1930 and 1931, [5] having earlier written about his efforts to establish that community theatre in Sydney in 1927. [6] Her first play, The Wife Exchange, was performed at the Tom Thumb Theatre in February 1934, [7] followed later that year by Take It or Leave It. [8]
She wrote a number of plays which were produced for radio by the ABC. [9] 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. [10] [11] Her two books for children, The Antics of Algy and Bush Cobbers, were published from successful radio serials she had written for the ABC. [12] Bush Cobbers was highly commended at the 1948 Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Awards. [13] Three Radio Plays included Webs of Our Weaving, one of six Australian plays selected by the ABC to commemorate Australian's Jubilee in 1951. [14]
Morell died at her home in Hornsby, New South Wales on 29 September 1950. [15]
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