• Title
  Marjorie Lawrence at Sydney Town Hall
• Call number
  Home and Away - 22259
  
• Level of description
  item
• Date
  
  September 1944 ?
• Type of material
  Graphic Materials, Photographs
• Reference code
  27051
• Physical Description
  Photographs - 1 film photonegative (copied from original nitrate photonegative) - 35 mm.
  
• ADMINISTRATIVE/ BIOGRAPHICAL HISTORY
  
  Reference: Interrupted melody, an autobiography (1st Aust. ed.) / by Marjorie Lawrence. Sydney : Invincible Press, 1949 (Sydney : Halstead Press)
  For a biography of Lawrence, see: Australian Dictionary of Biography. Vol.10, 1891-1939. Carlton, Vic. : Melbourne University Press, 1986 (pp. 14-15)
  "When Lawrence appeared in an all-Wagner program with the Sydney Symphony Orchestra [Sir Neville] Cardus said her singing of Brunnhilde's farewell from Gotterdammerung was as great an example of Wagnerian singing as Sydney was likely to hear in a lifetime." -- Reference: Entertaining Australia : an illustrated history / Katharine Brisbane (ed.). Sydney : Currency Press, 1991 (p.257)
  Just as Florence Austral was able to alternate with Frida Leider, Marjorie Lawrence was of a calibre to alternate with Kirsten Flagstad at the Metropolitan in 1937 -- Reference: Cantabile-Subito website (online) / Andrea Suhm-Binder
• General note
  
  Not identified in Hood register.
  Digital order no:hood_22259
• Alphanumeric designations
  
  Original item no. NCY47/176
• Name
  Lawrence, Marjorie, 1908?-1979
  
• Subject
  Sydney Town Hall (Sydney, N.S.W.)
  Adult Females
  
• Topic
  interiors
  bouquets
  evening clothes
  singers
  town halls
  wheelchairs
  

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