For Homestead and Honour

For Homestead and Honour, or the Rally of the Boy Scouts by R.L. Mullarkey is a 1912 Australian play.[1][2] The play was presented by William Anderson.[3]

It was one of a series of popular early Australian written plays.[4][5]

The play concerned a hypothetical war between Germany and Britain and how it might affect Australia, with an emphasis on the role to be played by the boy scouts. The play was written in two weeks in honour of Baden Powell.[6][7]

The Bulletin said the play "might have been hurled together in two days. Its outstanding defect is that it is without a redeeming feature. A more dull, futile, amorphous and utterly absurd dra- matic misdemeanor the present benevolently disposed critic has not encountered. The idea appears to be to picture a German in-vasion of Australia; but if it is informed that the play was written with the object of show-ing the effects of pre-Raphaelism upon the cow industry this paper will decline to be surprised. Anyhow, the nebulous suggestion of a plot disappears from view after the first act. "[8]

References

  1. ^ "THE KING'S THEATRE". Fitzroy City Press. No. 1591. Victoria, Australia. 15 June 1912. p. 2. Retrieved 2 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  2. ^ "MUSIC AND DRAMA. KING'S THEATRE". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 20, 555. Victoria, Australia. 10 June 1912. p. 11. Retrieved 2 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  3. ^ "Music and Drama". The Telegraph. No. 12, 348. Queensland, Australia. 15 June 1912. p. 21 (SECOND EDITION). Retrieved 2 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  4. ^ "STAGE GOSSIP". The Argus (Melbourne). No. 23, 773. Victoria, Australia. 14 October 1922. p. 11. Retrieved 2 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  5. ^ "90 Years of Australian Drama; The Hits and the Flops.", Everyones., Sydney: Everyones Ltd, 10 December 1930, nla.obj-564400612, retrieved 2 May 2024 – via Trove
  6. ^ "THE PLAYGOER". Punch. Vol. CXVI, no. 2968. Victoria, Australia. 13 June 1912. p. 40. Retrieved 2 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  7. ^ "PLAYS AND PLAYERS". Saturday Mail. No. 7. South Australia. 15 June 1912. p. 4. Retrieved 2 May 2024 – via National Library of Australia.
  8. ^ "SUNDRY SHOWS.", The Bulletin, Sydney, N.S.W: John Haynes and J.F. Archibald, 13 Jun 1912, nla.obj-1789259757, retrieved 2 May 2024 – via Trove


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