I came across a quote from this article when someone updated Elsie Jane Wilson’s Wikipedia page recently, and set out to find a copy of it if I could.
To be honest, I’ve focussed more on Rupert’s work on this site because he was the one I first heard about, who piqued my interest initially because I was living in New Zealand at the time (and we seemed to share a birthday, give or take 90 years or so, too).
But over time I’ve learned more about Elsie and her career, and with some new research & work around early women filmmakers from the silent era in recent years there’s been more and more info out there about her and her contemporaries. Plus, I live in Sydney now, where she was born and grew up—I believe—so I’ve often wondered if I might find out more about her here than I had been able to previously…
During the more sedately spiritual Krotona occupation, the front building housed a kitchen, dining room, vegetarian cafeteria and lecture rooms until Krotona relocated to Ojai in 1924. The building, then called the Krotona Court, was designed by San Diego-based architecture firm of Mead & Requa. Every era at Krotona seems to bring a fresh interpretation of the Theosophical Society’s mission: to explore the inexplicable...
Just wanted to call attention to another addition to the (marvellous!) NZ On Screen site, where my good friend Barbara from the (marvellous!) Turnbull Library in New Zealand has written a biography of Kiwi actor Winter Hall...
Not directly Rupert-related, but here's an interesting story of JC Williamson's early career, and move to Australia, from the Stage Whispers site...
I'm launching this site today to coincide with the arrival of Rupert's biography on the NZ On Screen site - you might notice it's quite similar to the biography here, which is obviously because I wrote both of them!
