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Laurel Martyn’s 1952 production of The Sentimental Bloke closely followed the storyline in C.J. Dennis’ poems, published as The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke in 1915. It told of the adventures of Bill (The Bloke) in his search for his ‘ideel tart’, Doreen.

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Jean Stewart (b.1921)
Laurel Martyn as Doreen and Geoffrey Ingram as the Bloke in The Sentimental Bloke, Ballet Guild, 1952
Manuscript Collection,
MS 9771, Box 1, Folder 54