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THE MERRYMAKERS
AUSTRALIAN VARIETY THEATRE ARCHIVE: RESEARCH NOTES
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aka The Mosman Merrymakers
(1917-1919) Organised in Mosman, Sydney sometime around May 1917 for the purpose of raising funds for various
patriotic movements, the all-female Merrymakers troupe was led by Doris North under the supervision of Mrs Keeling
(president) and Mrs J. Adams (vice-president). Following its first performance, at the War Chest Fund held Mosman's
Repertory Theatre on 6 June, the revolving Merrymakers line-up appeared at fundraisers in Sydney, regional New
South Wales and southern Queensland. The entertainment combined elements of refined costume comedy (including
pierrot costumes) and revue - notably singing (solos, duos, trios and choruses), dancing, comedy sketches, and
recitations etc. The company's final performance was given at the North Sydney Coliseum on 22 August 1919.
NB: In 1919 Doris North and Dorothy Nall toured the East with Frederick Shipman's Fantastics, North as pianist and
Nall as elocutionist.
Personnel incl. Yvonne Androusseau, Katie Clarke, Olive Clarke, Queenie Clarke, Nora Connelly, Enid Hirst (Mrs
Moors), Eileen Mayor, Dorothy Nall, Doris Napier North (Mrs Ken Donaldson), Eileen Napier North, Kathleen
Napier North, Sadie Napier North, Maida Scott, Bluie Slatter, Gwen Slatter (pianist), Sadie Tilburn, Kathleen
Waddington, Valerie Wetherall, Beatrice Wenban.
Mosman Library (Sydney)
http://mosman1914-1918.net/project/blog/doing-their-share?commented=1
1917
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/15723262
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13214746
South Coast Times and Wollongong Argus
13 July (1917), 16.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/15465604
Illawarra Mercury 13 July (1917), 4.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/15256336
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/10858530
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13215255
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13215451
1918
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/10857353
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13274744
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13274845
Gosford Times and Wyong District Advocate 4 Apr. (1918), 9.
Nepean Times 20 Apr. (19180), 5.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/article/86193702
Newsletter 25 May (1918), 4.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/10863204
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13275138
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/8676424
Sydney Mail 18 Sept. (1918), 27.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/16892686
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13275792
1919
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13211622
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/10858302
Sunday Times (Syd) 8 June (1919), 13.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/13211887
Misc
Re: Doris Napier North and Dorothy Nall (1919 tour with Frederick Shipman's Fantastics).
"Music and Drama." Sydney Morning Herald 6 Sept. (1919), 8.
http://trove.nla.gov.au/ndp/del/page/1253049
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