Georgie Swift interviewed by Warren Fahey in the Warren Fahey collection [sound recording]
- Bib ID:
- 3989653
- Format:
- Audio
- Author:
- Swift, Georgie, 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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- 2004
- 2 digital audio tapes (ca. 130 min.)
- Series:
- Warren Fahey collection.
- Summary:
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Georgie Swift born Mosman, Cremorne, N.S.W., talks about going to Japan with father as a young child; her French mother; returning to live in Cremorne with grandmother and aunts; her father disappearing back to Japan; aunts hat shops in the Strand Arcade in early 1930's; traveling to city by ferry; wool stores at Circular Quay; her uncle Marcel's millinery factory; popularity of hat shops; her childhood; living in Depression of the (1930's); collecting empty beer bottles and cashing them in; Sydney street barrow sellers; buying sugarcane as a kid; being a young girl at boarding school (Kambala); St Vincents School; leaving school and studying at university; studied Arts at Sydney; working as university newspaper reporter; attending university with Margaret Whitlam and Governor's daughter; her brother Morris; working for the Daily Mirror during war became pictorial editor; The Witch Of Kings Cross and Bea Miles; getting the sack from the Mirror; grand hotels of Sydney, Australia Hotel; living in Sydney in Darling Point; architectural Sydney; Roy Rene 'Mo' at the old Tivoli; seeing Sir Lawrence Olivier and Vivian Lee in late (1950's); Marlene Dietrich at Theatre Royal; Sydney people entertaining themselves and role of radio; electric gramophone listening to dance music, orchestral and ballet music; lift drivers in David Jones; Dwane McCullough; Brian Walsh; compares society then and now; Sunday Telegraph social column and Nola Deckevere; being a member of the Black and White Committee; snobbery; drinking laws; working on newspapers and the ladies parlour; Prof Wilkinson; her favourite houses in Sydney.
- Biography/History:
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Georgie Swift was a member of the famous Black and White Committee. The committee was successful in 1950's and 1960's in raising the profile of needy charities including the Royal Blind Society. She also worked in publicity and as a journalist.
- Notes:
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- Recorded on 27 July 2004 at Darling Point, N.S.W.
- Also available online http://nla.gov.au/nla.obj-218667594
- Index/Finding Aid Note:
- Summary (4 p.)
- Subject:
- Occupation:
- Journalists
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fahey, Warren, interviewer
- Copyright:
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In Copyright
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Until 2074 [Created/Published Date + 70 Years]
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- Material type:
- Sound Recording
- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 2004
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