MS 6220 Papers of Agnes Dobson (1896?-1987)
Biographical Note
Actress and broadcaster. Agnes Dobson, her father Collet Dobson, her first
husband, Ronald Riley, and her mother, Harrie Dobson, were members of a notable
theatre family and appeared for a number of years with Benjamin Fuller's theatre
companies, as well as acting in a few Australian and American films. She turned
to radio broadcasting and performed in drama programs and reviewed books on 3 UZ
and 3 AW as Agnes Grey. She became involved in television, joined the Hector Crawford school as a drama teacher and also gave speech training.
Series Description
BOX 1
Folder 1 - Letters from Max Harris and others, 1934-53
Folder 2 - Letters received, 1942-55
Folder 3 - Family history - photographs, clippings, notes,
correspondence and typescripts, 1949-75
Folder 4 - Family history - photographs, clippings, family tree
and typescript notes on the lives of members of the
Dobson Family, n.d.
Folder 5 - Ms draft of play "Australia's peril: the invasion of
1915", in three exercise books, n.d.
Folder 6 - Four exercise books with untitled ms notes and drafts
and two music manuscript books, n.d.
BOX 2
Folder 7 - Six notebooks, 1935-45
Folder 8 - Ms and typescript of play "In the ranks", n.d.
- Ms draft of "The Independence of Mr Hastings", n.d.
Folder 9 - Pencil ms of "The Brighter side of pioneering", n.d.
- Untitled ms of play in two exercise books, n.d.
Folder 10 - Ms draft of "The Ever-living actor", 1935
- Ms draft of "The Acting impulse", n.d.
Folder 11 - Ms of "Joshua" and and untitled play, n.d.
Folder 12 - Nine reporters notebooks on Australian theatre, 1900- 1921
Folder 13 - Four notebooks, 1923-32
- Pencil draft of "Dangerous rhapsody" in exercise book
Folder 14 - Five reporters notebooks, 1936-46
BOX 3
Folders 15-24 - Annotated typescripts of scripts by various authors
BOX 4
Folder 25 - Typescript of "My Own land" by Agnes Dobson, n.d.
Folder 26 - Poems, stories and scripts by A Dobson in ms and
typescript, including corrected typescript of
"Legend" or "Shall we remember", n.d.
Folder 27 - Various dramatic sketches and radio scripts by Agnes
Dobson, 1930s - 1950s
Folder 28 - Corrected typescripts of plays by Ronald Riley: "My
blue heaven" and "The Marriage joke"
Folder 29 - Script, notes and clippings re adaptation of the
Greek epic "Medea"
Folder 30 - Play scripts and parts by various authors
- Broadcasts of "The Village glee club", 1957-70
Folder 31 - Notes and broadcasts re Rex Ingamells
- Dramatic sketches and ABC broadcasts, 1941-45
BOX 5
Folders 32-41 - Scripts from Crawford School of Broadcasting,
1950s and 1960s
Folder 37 - ABC television rehearsal script of "Quiet night"
by Dorothy Blewitt
Folder 38 - ABC television script of "Waters of the moon" by
N.C. Hunter, adapted by Wal Cherry
BOX 6
Folder 42 - Papers re Crawford School of Broadcasting, 1955-57
Folder 43 - Scripts and other papers re Crawford School of
Broadcasting
Folder 44 - Papers on speech training classes: ABC Scriptwriters
Seminars, Melbourne, 1966 and portrait of Douglas
Hutton
Folder 45 - Notes etc re speech training classes, n.d.
Folders 46-47 - Photographs, clippings and publicity material,
1915-58
Folder 48 - Postcard photo/portraits of various actresses,
circa 1900-1920
Folder 49 - Photographs and programmes, 1912-49, including
Fuller's Dramatic Players
BOX 7
Folder 50 - Printed programmes and magazines, 1945-48
Folder 51 - Printed material, 1914-46
Folder 52 - Fuller's Dramatic Players programmes, circa 1920s
Folder 53 - Printed material, 1929-36
Folder 54 - Printed material, 1930-circa 1960
Folder 55 - Fuller news, 1923 issues
Folder 56 - Fuller's Dramatic Players programmes, 1920s
BOX 8
Folder 57 - Miscellaneous notes, typescripts and photographs
Folder 58 - Press cuttings, 1930s-1960s
Playbill for "East Lynne" - Fuller's Dramatic Company, 1920s
Poster for film "Barry butts in", n.d.
Bound volume of theatre programmes, 1920s
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