Cirrus@Austlit

Xmas Number

Contains section, 'Some High Personages - at Low Terms', which comprises brief biographical notes with accompanying caricatures (by David Low, q.v.) of 'prominent Australian personalities' including Bernard O'Dowd, Roderick Quinn, Arthur H. Adams, C. J. Dennis, A. G. Stephens, Randolph Bedford, William Macleod, David Low and James Edmond.

Includes feature, 'My Most Memorable Xmas', which comprises reminiscences by various (literary) personalities such as Mary Gaunt, Marie Tempest, Irene Vanbrugh, Maurice Moscovitch, Michael Terry, L. H. Allen, H. Tasman Lovell, J. Le Gay Brereton, Seymour Hicks, Zillah Bateman, Prince de Broglie, Patric Curwen, Rowena Ronald and Mary MacGregor. The section includes a poem by Prince Jacques de Broglie which has been indexed below.

Contains Ethel Anderson's (q.v.) monthly column, 'Certain Things Considered'; this instalment includes a brief discussion of a recently published autobiography, A Journalist's Memories by Reginald Spencer Browne (q.v.).

Includes the monthly column, 'Sydney S'Amuse' which contains a brief discussion regarding Katharine Susannah Prichard (q.v.) and her recent visit to Sydney. Prichard also responds to the question as to whether her novel The Pioneers was inspired by Frederick McCubbin's (q.v.) painting in the Melbourne Gallery.