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Biography Maxwell Dunn (1916-1965) was born in Launceston, Tasmania, and began his
working life as an insurance agent. Turning to writing, he wrote radio plays first for the ABC, beginning with Jungle Drums in 1937, and later for the Macquarie network where he became production manager. He wrote and adapted numerous plays, serials and documentaries for the Macquarie network and its subsidiary Artransa. In 1950 Dunn joined the United Nations Radio and Television department, working for ten years in New York and New Delhi. Dunn returned to Australia shortly before his death in 1965.
Notes Open access
Further scripts by Maxwell Dunn individually catalogued as part of the Hanger Collection of Australian Playscripts.
Alias the Bearded Lady [Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from A.C. Headley’s novel (1941).]
• no.1 6p. • no.2 6p.
The Amazing Mr Chitterwick
• Episode 1. The stranger from Egypt. [2 complete copies, some duplicate pages] 29p
The Fighting Nineteen-Twentyninth.
• Anzac Day War-Loan Broadcast 25 April 1944.6p. [2 copies]. Attached letter from Mrs G. Downs 22 June 1944 requesting copy of script; reply 7 July 1944 from Dunn.
At 7.45 4p Black Jack [kept in folder labelled: Governor Bligh with notes on the characters] Black Jack: Prologue [2 copies] 8p Episode 2 [2 copies] 7p Episode 3 [2 copies] 8p Career Girl 13p The Chinese Puzzle [3 copies] 6p. Circumstantial Evidence [5 copies] 8p. Common Wealth: The Story of Australian Private Enterprise [sample script for a series of 3 one-hour broadcasts, plus author's notes 15p]. Coee No.1 15p Crime Politique [3 copies] 11p.
• Doctor Mac. Written by Margaret Dunn. 7p • Two blue men. Written by Margaret Dunn 7p. • Rest cure. Written by Margaret Dunn [2 copies, 7p and 8p]. • The book and the cover. Written by Margaret Dunn 7p. • Diagnosis by gossip. Written by Margaret Dunn 6p. • Doctor Mac [2 copies] 7p. • Doctor Mac 7p. • Doctor Mac. Special Mothers Day Appeal – 3AW Melbourne. 5p. • Doctor Mac 6p. • Doctor Mac 6p. • Cassandra 6p. • A walnut tree 6p. • Doctor Mac 6p. • A very reverend gentleman. Doctor Mac Series 18 No.39.[2 copies 8p, 1 copy 7p] • The world is right. Doctor Mac: Series 19 No. 36 6p • Doctor Mac Series 19, No. 37 [2 copies] 7p • Emphasis on love: Doctor Mac Series 24 No.11, Written by Margaret Dunn. 8p. • By any other name. Doctor Mac Series 24 7p. • Time payment. Doctor Mac Series 24 7p. • Doctor Mac Series 24 No.6. 8p.
Dramas of the Courts
• The doctor takes a life 7p. • The freedom trial 5p.
• Notes for next series ‘The Land and the Lost’. Draft script for a special presentation for the final session of Macquarie Broadcasting Service series Country Quiz, to be titled ‘Drift to the City. 11p. Also plot projection for ‘Drift to the City’ [3 copies] 4p. Notes re the opening [5 copies] 2p. Correspondence 17 June 1949 with Macquarie Broadcasting Service Ellery Queen: Master Detective
Harvey's Town • Characters and plot projection 8p.
Hollywood Club 5p. I Am a Batchelor:
• Episode - Rex Collins 3p. I Give and Bequeath
• Episode 4: The will of the lost one7p. • Episode 7: The happy will 7p. • Episode 8: Come into my parlour 8p. • Episode 9: The milestone 8p. • Episode 10: The testament of Andrew McKinley 8p. • Episode 11: The dog has his day 8p. • Episode 12: The reluctant nobleman 8p.
I Wish
• Sample script [2 copies] 8p. Impact 15p. In His Steps. Based on the novel of the same name by Charles Munro Sheldon.
• Plot notes by Artransa Pty Ltd.[2 copies] 3p. • Scripts for episodes 1-53 (missing 11, 13, 20-23, 29, 32-38, 40-48, 50-52). Each episode
comprised two ‘acts’ each representing a weekly broadcast. Scripts 5-8p foolscap typescript.
The Incomparable Charlie Chan. Adapted for Radio by Maxwell Dunn Series 1: The man who grew younger
Box 6 Jones Junior. Original script by Alec Coppell. Revised by Maxwell Dunn
• Episode 1: 7p. • Episode 2: 7p.
Launceston Calling: A Radio-Revue Written for the Microphone. Dated January 1938. [2 copies] 16p. The Man in Grey. Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the 1941 novel by Eleanor Smith
• Episodes 1-32. Each episode 7-9 pp. Multiple copies of some episodes. The Man in Half Moon Street ‘Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the three-act stage play by by Barre Lyndon 14p. Mantle of Greatness [Radio series produced by E. Mason Wood and written by a range of well-known Australian script writers. The series presented dramatised episodes in the lives of significant world figures. The series was broadcast weekly during 1948 over 69 radio stations via the Macquarie network.] [Folder of notes labelled: Bernhardt. Includes research notes on Joan of Arc, Sarah Berhardt and miscellaneous material about the Mantle of Greatness series.]
• Episode 1: The Zenger Case 7p. • Episode 2: Our Free World 7p. • Episode 3, Part 1: Emile Zola 7p. • William Charles Wentworth 12p. • Montgomery of Alamein
o Act 1 12p. o Act 2 9p. o Act 3 8p.
• Lincoln o Part one 8p. o Act 1 9p. o Act 2 [2 copies] 8p. o Act 3 [2 copies] 8p.
• Winston Churchill. Written by Cecil Mann. 12p. • Thomas Sutcliffe Mart, Written by Cecil Mann.
o Act 1 8p. o Act 2 8p. o Act 3 7p.
Mantle of Greatness 2nd Series
• Paderewski o Notes16p o 2 sets of scripts
§ Paderewski Episode 1 7p. § Paderewski Episode 2: The patriot 7p. § Paderewski Episode 3: The peacemaker 7p. § Paderewski Act I 8p. § Paderewski Act II 8p. § Paderewski Act III 9p.
• Trailer Episode for 2nd series (Goldsworthy) [4 copies] 9p. Mantle of GreatnessNo. 64 (1) - Goldsworthy 8p
• Faraday o No.2 Faraday 6p. o No.3 Faraday 6p. o No. 68 The Faraday Story Part I [2 copies] 9p; Part 2 7p. o Part 3 7p.
• Sir Henry Bessemer o Part 1 9p. o Part 2 9p. o Part 3 8p.
• Episode 71: The Steel Man [2 copies] 8p. • Episode 72: [2 copies] 9p.
Box 7 The Mantle of Greatness
• Episode 73 Final 7p. • The Call of the Key: Samuel Finlay Morse
o Notes & plot development 9p. o No.1: The Painter [3 copies] 7p. o No.2: The Inventor [3 copies] 7p. o No.3: The Fighter [3 copies]
• Lord Kelvin o Part 1 [2 copies] 8p. o Part 2 [2 copies] 9p. o Part 3 [2 copies] 8p.
• Canadian Pacific Railway Series. o Plot summary1949 8p. o Mantle of Greatness Canadian Pacific Series notes 7p. o Episode 80: Young man from Scotland [2 copies] 9p. o Episode 81: Confederation (2) 7p. o Episode 82: The Adventurer (2) 7p. o Episode 83: Craigellachie (2)
• The White Rajah 7p. o Episode 85: [2 copies] 6p. o Episode 86: [2 copies] 7p. o Episode 87: [2 copies] 7p.
• The Land is Bright:The Australian Agricultural Company o Notes The Australian Agricultural Co. 1824-75 by Jessie Gregson (A&R, 1907) 5p. o Episode 88: 8p. o Episode 89: 6p. o Episode 90: [2 copies] 8p.
• The Golden Mountain: Being the Story of Mount Morgan o Newspaper Clippings re Mount Morgan o Episode 94: [3 copies] 11p. o Episode 95: [4 copies] 9p.
• Episode 1: A scream in the night 17p. • Episode 2: The man wtih yellow eyes 16p. • Episode 3: Queer contents of a tin trunk 15p. • Episode 4: At the Diamond Slipper 17p. • Episode 5: Spike Trevannian hangs up his hat 16p. • Episode 6: Flo plays a lone hand - without trumps 15p. • Episode 7: The countess turns the tables 18p. • Episode 8: The charming young man named Smith 14p. • Episode 9: Murder on the Marseilles train 16p. • Episode 10: The doublecross 15p. • Episode 11: Gathering of the clans 15p. • Episode 12: The whole story. [2 complete copies and extra copies of some episodes.] 16p.
Penelope
• Script Idea 4p. The play's the thing
• No.1: Shadow at my shoulder 7p. • No.2: Shadow at my shoulder 7p.
Three Loves Had Lucy. The Playwright Present series. 5p. The Price of Happiness [4 copies] 6p. Prisoner at the Bar
The Rains Came. Adapted from the 1937 novel by Louis Broomfield.
• Character notes 2p. • Audition script 2p. • Episodes 1-39; most episodes 7-9p; some notes for additional dialogue
River Romances [From an idea by David Nettheim ]
• Series idea by David Nettheim 4p. • No.1 - Audition Episode [2 copies] 4p. • No.? - The Nile and the Music of Egypt 4p.
School for Spinsters “Adapted by Maxwell Dunn from the Three-Act Stage Comedy by Roland Pertwee”. Macquarie Radio Theatre. [appears to be incomplete] 14p. Secret Assassin [2 copies]33p. Send for Susan Browne
• Along the Primrose Path - Part One7p.
• Along the Primrose Path - Part Two8p. Shall We Dance
Sherlock Holmes • Sherlock Holmes Trailer 1 [2 copies]2p. • Sherlock Holmes: Script Taken from the American Disc.14p. • The case of the NorwoodBuilder- Parts 1 & 215p. • The Sussex vampire- Parts1 & 214p. • The Lion's mane- Parts 1 & 214p. • The adventure of the ReigateSquires - Parts 1 & 2 15p. • The speckled band Parts 1 & 2 16p. • (2 duplicate pages incl. in pagination) • The disappearing player - Parts 1 & 2 [3 copies] 19p. • No.3: The five orange pips Parts 1 & @ 14p. • No.3 (4?): Silver blaze - Advertising script. Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 20p. • No.5: Disappearing of Lady CarfaxParts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 16p. • Lady Carfax Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 14p. • No.5 The second stain Parts 1 & 2 15p. • No.7: The copper beeches Parts 1 & 2 13p. • No.7 (8?): The engineer's thumb Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 17p • No.8 (9?): The devil's foot 17p.;Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 14p. • No.9 (10?). The Musgrave Ritual; Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies] 17p. • No.11 The Abbey Grange 18p. • Parts 1 & 2 [2 copies]14p.
Ship's Surgeon
• Story outline, character sketches2 copies – incomplete 4 pages script only The Silver Mantle
• Presented Station 7LA Launceston 18/12/1937 [3 copies]10p. The Sinclair Girl
• Notes and series outline 4p • No 1: ‘The Highwayman’ by Alfred Noyes 2 copies 6p, 7p. • No.2: ‘Break, Break, Break’by Alfre Lord tennyson 6p. • ‘The Slaves Dream’ by Richard Lane 6p.
• Plot projections • Episode 1 Wings of Darkness • Episode 2 - Oh Sweet Mystery of life • Episode 3 - Relentless enemy • Episode 4 - The Butterfly • Episode 5 – The Flame on the Headland • Episode 6 - We have eloped • Episode 7 - Escape to Libson • Episode 8 - The Border of Night • Episode 9 - The man in her life • Episode 10 - Fool's carnival • Episode 11- Four on a honeymoon • Episode 12- Home of the heart • Episode 13 - Green burns the flame
Triphibian Terror
• Trailer episode 8p; memo 21 January 1944 attached from Macquarie Broadcasting Services, Mr R.E. Lane.
Turning the Fables
• The Lion, the Tiger and the Fox 7p. ‘Tale of Two Islands’. U.N. Story: No. 56. ‘An English Feature Presentation on United Nations Radio.’ 2 copies (one of which10/04/1950 12p.is a working copy) ‘Native Tongue.’ U.N. Story. ‘An English Feature Presentation on United Nations Radio.’ 2 copies 10/09/1950 9p. (one of which is a working copy)
Box 10 Woman of Courage [Documentary series for Artransa Pty Ltd]
• Series outline 3p • No 1: Edith Cavell 3 copies 9p. • No 2: Marjorie Lawrence 2 copies 7p/8p • No 5: Elizabeth Fry 7p. • No 9: Clara Barton 7p. 2p • No 15: Marie Curie 8p. • No 17: Victoria Regina 7p. • No 18: Sarah Bernhardt 6p. • No 19: Lady Hamilton 7p. • No 20: Madame Chiang Kai Chek 8p. • No 21: Florence Nightingale 8p. • No 22: Queen Christina of Sweden 7p.2 copies • No. 23: Harriet Beecher Stowe7p. 2 copies • No. 24: La Passionaria 6p. • No 25: Helen Keller 6p. 3 copies • No 26: Dutchess of Marlborough 7p. • No 27: Sister Kenney 7p. • No 29: Anne Bonney 8p. • No 30: Elizabeth Garrett Anderson 6p. • No 32: Rachel Crowdy 6p.
Words That Shook the World
• Presentation 1: John Quincy Adams Speaks. 6p. 2 copies 7p. World Digest Weekly. Edited by Maxwell Dunn
[Commonwealth of Australia. Department of Information. Special Programme March 1942] • Letter 10 Mar 1942 to Maxwell Dunn from Commonwealth of Australia. Department of
Information, with suggested draft of a script for an address by Mr A.E. Monk, President of the ACTU, on all commercial stations, Sunday, 15th March, 1942. 1 leaf typescript signed by the Controller of Advertising, initials IBH.
• Suggested draft of address. 2 copies 3p. 4p • Script for programme incorporating Monk’s address 3 copies 4p, 5p
Incomplete and unidentified scripts. 2 folders
Box 11 King Conquest: A new Comic Strip Adventure Story. Story treatment by Maxwell Dunn; drawn by Geoff Wilkinson.
• Character summaries, plot projection, King Conquest in pictures 15 p. International Correspondence Schools: Short Story Writing course. Lessons, test papers dated 2/11/35 - 23/7/41. Universal School of Writing: course materials Parts 1 -5107p. The Technique of Writing for Radio: Study units 1 -10 What I Hate about Women, by ‘Peter Maxwel’
Scripts by other authors • Anderson, Bruce, Theatre of the Air – 5p script • Foster, Lynn, Drama of Medicine
o Programme 30: Tuberculosis 6p. o Programme 31: Tuberculosis 8p. o Episode 64: The Anti TB Campaign 9p.
• Collins, John, Chaplain Jim, o trailer episode 2p. o Audition episode 6p.
• Hanbury, Ronnie, Ignorance Is Bliss No 5 27/3/50 21p. • Hanbury, Ronnie, Up the Pole No. 23 24/3/50 30p. • If I Were King. Adapted from the comic opera by Justin Huntley McCarthy by Kay Keavney
for Macquarie radio Theatre. Summaries 2p; Script31p; Recorded trailer2p. • Lane, Richard, The Torch of Liberty. Audition script 8p. • Noonan Michael, Sir Henry Parkes. Outline, bloc scene material and plot projection10p. • Lynch William, Successful Authorship. Publicity Booklets
Artransa Presents: Jewels of Destiny. Drafts for a publicity booklet/brochure for the series devised and written by Dunn. 4p. Unidentified material. 1 folder