Hazel Hollander interviewed by Ros Bowden in the NSW Bicentennial oral history collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 2170165
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Hollander, Hazel, 1906-, interviewee
- Online Version:
- National Library of Australia digitised item
- Access Conditions:
- Access open for research, personal copies and public use.
- Description:
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- 1987 Dec. 16
- 2 sound cassettes (ca. 120 min.) : 1 7/8 ips.
- Series:
- NSW Bicentennial oral history collection.
- Summary:
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Hollander speaks of her parent's background and family history; memories of her parents; being an only child; family life; school memories; family homes in Sydney; local community of Elizabeth Bay and Potts Point; living in boarding houses with her family, lifestyle there, residents; sex education; alcohol; family celebrations; memories of the opening of the Sydney Harbour Bridge; family relations; parent's social life; memories of the theatre when growing up, melodramas; acting classes; family discipline; meals; family's Jewishness; relatives and memories of grandparents, childhood reading; employment knitting and selling finished garments to a city shop; starting work in radio; speech lessons, radio dramas and serials she played in, popular radio plays of 1920s and 1930s; her career; memories of travelling overseas with parents at 16; attitudes to life in Australia when returning; fashions in Europe that weren't in Australia; clothes she wore in the 1920s 1930s; dances attended by herself and parents; George Edwards radio production house, recording in 1920s and 1930s; radio play production, experiences and anecdotes of her time as a radio actress, sponsors, commercials, audiences; radio technique, importance of radio in peoples lives, work conditions.
- Notes:
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- Includes index.
- Recorded by the NSW Bicentennial Oral History Project, funded by a bicentennial grant to the NSW Council on the Ageing and the Oral History Association of Australia (NSW).
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-216349317
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Timed summary and transcript available: 2 v. (30 p., 28 p.).
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- Until 2057 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1987
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