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Barbara Mary Vernon (25 July 1916 – 16 April 1978) was an Australian playwright, screenwriter and radio announcer. Her plays include The Multi-Coloured Umbrella. She was the headwriter and script editor of the TV drama series Bellbird.
Vernon was born in 1916, the youngest child of four to medical practitioner Murray Menzies Vernon and Constance Emma Elliot (née Barling). She attended the New England School in Armidale, New South Wales, before entering the Women`s Auxiliary Air Force in 1943, rising to rank of Corporal, before being discharged in 1946. She joined radio the Northern Broadcasters radio station radio 2NZ. Vernon started to write plays because she was involved with amateur drama and they could not afford to pay for the copyright of plays.
Her first play was "Naked Possum" in 1956, staged by Dame Doris Fitton, her second professionally performed play was the award-winning "The Multi-Coloured Umbrella" and this was the first Australian play broadcast by Australian television. She retired in 1976 and died in Darlinghurst, New South Wales on 16 April, 1978 at St Vincents Hospital aged 61.
Location
| Address: | Cassilis Road, St Columba Anglican Church, (near Cassilis Bowling Club), Cassilis, 2329 |
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| State: | NSW |
| Area: | AUS |
| GPS Coordinates: | Lat: -32.011099 Long: 149.978693 Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate. |
Details
| Monument Type: | Plaque |
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| Monument Theme: | People |
| Sub-Theme: | Arts |
| Link: | http://adb.anu.edu.au/ |
Dedication
To The Glory Of God
In Memory Of
BARBARA VERNON
Author And Playwright Who Resided In
The Old Parsonage At Cassilis
From Nov. 1975 Till April 1978.
By Her Concern For Us, She Enriched Our Community
"Let Us Run With Patience The Race
Set Before Us." Heb 12: 2.
