Madame Fortuna single work   drama  
Issue Details: First known date: 1922... 1922 Madame Fortuna
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AbstractHistoryArchive Description

Described as a 'comedietta' by its author, the action of this playlet takes place in a city tea room just after closing time.

According to a local newspaper, it 'dealt with the outwitting of a fortune teller who had been the means of separating a cafe manager and his wife, and of their reunion after the wife had secretly overhear the conversation between the two conspirators and the defeated woman'.

Source: 'Australian Drama', Argus, 12 August 1922, p.22.

Production Details

  • Presented by the Australian Literature Society at the Stratford tearoom, Bourke Street, Melbourne, 11 August 1922.

    Cast: Mr H. N. Gregory (Conroy, the Cafe Manager), Amy Reding (Linda, his sister-in-law, acting as a waitress), Miss Wheeler (Loo, a housemaid), Miss A. Flight (Lorne, the manager's wife), and Miss C. Malgrem (Madame Fortuna, a fortune teller).

    Presented with A Dramatic Interlude by W. Nelson as part of a 'Drama night' put on for members of the Australian Literature Society.

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

Works about this Work

Personal and General 1922 single work review
— Appears in: Corroboree : The Journal of the Australian Literature Society , August vol. 1 no. 11 1922; (p. 1)

— Review of Madame Fortuna Karta , 1922 single work drama
Personal and General 1922 single work review
— Appears in: Corroboree : The Journal of the Australian Literature Society , August vol. 1 no. 11 1922; (p. 1)

— Review of Madame Fortuna Karta , 1922 single work drama
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