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Issue Details: First known date: 1950... 1950 She Who Was Beautiful
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'This play, written for Actor's choice by Kathleen Carroll, of Sydney, N.S.W., is a sincere story of a girl forced to sacrifice her youth to care for a seriously ill mother, who has always disliked her daughter and been jealous of her. Much against the wishes of her family, who take the view that the girl should take care of her mother rather than live any life of her won, she plans to marry a young widower who is in love with her. However, the young man feels they should delay plans for marriage until the mother no longer needs the girl's care—a plan which has disastrous results.'

Source: 'For Next Week', ABC Weekly, 28 October 1950, p.27.

Production Details

  • Broadcast on 2UE in Sydney on 31 October 1950 and in Melbourne on 9 November 1950.

    Cast included Lyndall Barbour (Grace Ashton) and Alan White.

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    • Sydney, New South Wales,: 2UE , 1950 .
      Extent: 30min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Actor's Choice Australia : 2UE , 1950- 19335225 1950 series - publisher radio play

      Initiated by 2UE in August 1950, Actor's Choice was a series of radio plays by local writers, each chosen as a starring vehicle by a leading Sydney radio actor, and produced in 2UE's Sydney studios. One play was broadcast each week from the week of 21 August 1950.

      The series invited scripts from listeners as well as soliciting scripts from well-known local writers. Authors were paid £15 per script, and for the 1950-1951 production year, the studio also ran a competition for the four best plays, with prizes of £100, £50, £25, and £10. The four winning plays were rebroadcast as the final four plays of the year.

      Actor's Choice ran to a second series, which may have been less popular than the first: it appears to have received less coverage in industry magazines (such as ABC Weekly) and newspapers, and information is scarcer. Details on series two on AustLit are currently incomplete.

      Sources include 'New Programmes Mark Start of Major Radio War', Sun, 22 August 1950, p.29.

             Number in series: 1.11
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