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Advertisement, Queensland Times, 15 January 1938, p.13
form y separately published work icon Lovers and Luggers single work   film/TV  
Adaptation of Lovers and Luggers 'Gurney Slade' , 1928 single work novel
Issue Details: First known date: 1937... 1937 Lovers and Luggers
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'Set in the South Pacific. Daubeney Carshott goes to Thursday Island to dive for pearls to present to Stella Raff, with the hope of winning her hand. He meets Craig, another diver and eventually they realise they are both pearl-diving for the same girl.'

Source: British Film Institute (http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/40918). (Sighted: 11/9/2013)

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Australia Crossed-Over : Images of Cross-Dressing in Australian Art Elizabeth McMahon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Art And Australia , vol. 34 no. 3 1997; (p. 372-379)
McMahon discusses the way in which 'from the early colonial period, transvestism has been deployed as a central motif or conceit in Australian visual art, photography and film, as well as in ballads, literary narratives and drama (p.374).
Australia Crossed-Over : Images of Cross-Dressing in Australian Art Elizabeth McMahon , 1997 single work criticism
— Appears in: Art And Australia , vol. 34 no. 3 1997; (p. 372-379)
McMahon discusses the way in which 'from the early colonial period, transvestism has been deployed as a central motif or conceit in Australian visual art, photography and film, as well as in ballads, literary narratives and drama (p.374).
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