Australian History

[manfromironbark]

I was born in Mt Gambier and like many others, I went to Britain to gain my fame...

 

[Tathradj]

Sir Robert Murray Helpmann (1909-1986), ballet dancer, actor, producer, director and choreographer, was born on 9 April 1909 at Mount Gambier, South Australia, eldest of three children of James Murray Helpman, a Victorian-born stock and station agent, and his wife Mary, ne Gardiner, born in South Australia. Benjamin Helpman was his great-grandfather. Robert was educated at Prince Alfred College, Adelaide, but left school at 14. His motherherself stage-struck from an early agewas to be a driving force in his career. Taught ballet by Nora Stewart, he first appeared on stage at the Theatre Royal, Adelaide, in 1922 as a solo dancer in The Ugly Duckling. As a student he toured Australia and New Zealand in 1926 with Anna Pavlovas company. His professional career began in 1927 when he joined J. C. Williamson Ltd as the principal dancer in Frasquita for its Australasian tour.

 

[manfromironbark]

Tathradj has it!

 

[Tathradj]

Thank You.

I disappeared under strange circumstances.
I may not have been where I should have.

 

[manfromironbark]

Thank You.

I disappeared under strange circumstances.
I may not have been where I should have.

Harold Holt?

 

[Tathradj]

Sorry, No.

 

[Manpa]

The girls at Hanging Rock?

 

[Tathradj]

Good try Manpa but,
No.
This an unexplained mystery.

One of our earliest explorers has a tie to
this event.

 

[Manpa]

George Bass of Bass and Flinders fame?

 

[Tathradj]

Sorry again,
No.
But Bass also has a tie as well.

 

[manfromironbark]

Lewis Hubert Lasseter?

 

[Manpa]

Jean Francois Laperouse?

 

[Guest]

Lamont Young! ickshovel: :goldpan: :goldnugget: :goldnugget: :goldnugget: :skull:

 

[Tathradj]

LOL,
Non to any of those people.
Was also associated with Victoria

 

[Manpa]

Joseph Gellibrand

 

[Tathradj]

Sorry Manpa,
No.

I had an attitude issue.
In more ways than one. :cloudy:

 

[StoneTheCrows]

Leichhardt

 

[Colour&Shape]

Lasseter?

 

[Tathradj]

sorry,
No go.

Only 1 part of me was supposedly found.
A plumber was involved as well.

 

[Ward69]

Sounds like a thing.

Whale boat that was left in Sydney after discovery of bass strait and snuff boxes was made from the wood