y separately published work icon The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII periodical issue   children's  
Issue Details: First known date: 1923... no. 286 December 1923 of The School Paper : Grades VII and VIII est. 1896-1932 The School Paper for Grades VII and VIII
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* Contents derived from the , 1923 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
Preparing for Speech Night, Lillian M. Pyke , single work extract children's
The Riverview girls are preparing for their performance of The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare (q.v.), but are having trouble in deciding who will play the role of Portia. The girls learn that their shy friend, Jane, is the daughter of Mrs. Lee Richmond, a famous Shakespearean actress, who visits the school, guides them through a performance, and reveals that Jane has rehearsed the part of Portia 'many times'.
 (p. 165-168)
Note: With photograph: 'Characters in the Trial Scene, The Merchant of Venice', 'taken after the performance last Shakespeare Day at the School of Domestic Arts, Fitzroy.'
The End-of-Term Supper, Mary Grant Bruce , single work extract children's
This extract forms a part of Bruce's school story wherein the boarders share a secretive midnight supper. Nita, who is deemed 'good at physiology' advises Helen on how to dissect a 'large cold fowl'. The girls share meringues and eclairs and compare their ease of life with the trials of the grandmothers, who were required to cook in a 'colonial oven', 'make all of the family clothes - by hand, if you please...!', run the house (without a maid), 'doctor her own family' and 'take the odd turn at harvesting, or bush-fire fighting, or cattle-mustering, or...[fighting] off the blacks'.
 (p. 169-171)
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