Global InformationMusette Morell information
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| Born | Moyna Ann Martin 1898 |
| Died | 29 September 1950 (aged 51–52) Hornsby, New South Wales, Australia |
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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]
- ^ "Musette Morell". AusStage. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Morell, Musette (1 January 1928), "Mood", The New Triad, 1 (6), retrieved 5 October 2021
- ^ Morell, Musette (18 April 1928), "Color", The Bulletin, 49 (2514), John Haynes and J.F. Archibald: 1
- ^ Morell, Musette (10 July 1928), "Inconsequential", The Australian Woman's Mirror, 4 (33), The Bulletin Newspaper, retrieved 5 October 2021
- ^ "The Wife Exchange". AusStage. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ Morell, Musette (14 August 1927). "Sydney's First Art Theatre". The Daily Telegraph. No. 16. New South Wales, Australia. p. 22. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ ""The Wife Exchange"". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 29, 962. New South Wales, Australia. 13 January 1934. p. 10. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "People of the Week". The World's News. No. 1677. New South Wales, Australia. 31 January 1934. p. 9. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Tribute to Musette Morell", ABC Weekly, 12 (42), Australian Broadcasting Commission, 21 October 1950, retrieved 5 October 2021
- ^ "National Children's Session Publicity". Lachlander and Condobolin and Western Districts Recorder. New South Wales, Australia. 15 April 1940. p. 3. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Radio Programme Features". Ouyen Mail. No. 1553. Victoria, Australia. 29 May 1940. p. 2. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Fun and Fancy For Children". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 31, 292. Victoria, Australia. 14 December 1946. p. 16. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.
- ^ "Musette Morell". AustLit: Discover Australian Stories. Retrieved 5 October 2021.
- ^ "ABC Jubilee Productions of Radio Plays both Old and New". Trove. Vol. 12, no. 52. 30 December 1950. p. 26. Retrieved 31 August 2023.
- ^ "Family Notices". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 35, 188. New South Wales, Australia. 30 September 1950. p. 42. Retrieved 5 October 2021 – via National Library of Australia.