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| − | Peter Guy Harding was born on 27 January 1914 to Valeria Esme and William Guy Harding. In 1937 at Mosman he married (Kathleen) Barbara Milne (1913-93) whom he had met at the New Theatre League. A student of Julian Ashton, Dattilo Rubbo and Thea Proctor, Barbara drew fashion figures for "Home Budget" . She worked with the Independent before acting in NTL's "Paradise Lost" and "Squaring the Circle". | + | Peter Guy Harding was born on 27 January 1914 to Valeria Esme and William Guy Harding. In 1937 at Mosman he married (Kathleen) Barbara Milne (1913-93) whom he had met at the New Theatre League. A student of Julian Ashton, Dattilo Rubbo and Thea Proctor, Barbara drew fashion figures for "Home Budget" . She worked with the Independent before acting in NTL's "Paradise Lost" and "Squaring the Circle". Her younger sister Cecile acted in "Waiting for Lefty", "Where's that Bomb", "Cannibal Carnival", "Rehearsal", "Office Interlude", "So It Didn't Work" and "Rocket to the Moon". |
Peter Harding died on 10 February 2000. His Papers 1935-1940 (ML MSS 5867) are held by Mitchell Library. | Peter Harding died on 10 February 2000. His Papers 1935-1940 (ML MSS 5867) are held by Mitchell Library. | ||
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PETER GUY BENTINCK HARDING (1914 - 2000)
In letters to his family New Zealand-born Peter Harding gave a vivid account of the 1936 Savoy Theatre police raid of NTL’s Till the Day I Die in which he played a Stormtrooper, and of the crowds who came to see it "partly out of curiosity, and partly because they are most genuinely against the pro-Fascist banning of the play ... But they will be pretty shocked when they see the play itself. As well as being anti-Nazi, it is decidedly pro-Communist... What a business! We are at last putting the left theatre on the map ... What political material!" Harding saw the NSW police methods to enforce the ban as uncannily similar to Nazi tactics.
Harding also acted inWaiting for Lefty which won the one-act play award in the 1936 City of Sydney Eisteddfod, and was in the 1937 cast of Bury the Dead at the Conservatorium.
By the early 1950s Peter Harding was a features writer and book reviewer on the Sydney Morning Herald and from ca 1962-75 was a travel writer with the Australian Women’s Weekly. He spent most of his working life in Australia but often revisited and wrote about his birth country.
Actors and police backstage at the Savoy Theatre, Till the Day I Die, 1936
Peter Guy Harding was born on 27 January 1914 to Valeria Esme and William Guy Harding. In 1937 at Mosman he married (Kathleen) Barbara Milne (1913-93) whom he had met at the New Theatre League. A student of Julian Ashton, Dattilo Rubbo and Thea Proctor, Barbara drew fashion figures for "Home Budget" . She worked with the Independent before acting in NTL's "Paradise Lost" and "Squaring the Circle". Her younger sister Cecile acted in "Waiting for Lefty", "Where's that Bomb", "Cannibal Carnival", "Rehearsal", "Office Interlude", "So It Didn't Work" and "Rocket to the Moon".
Peter Harding died on 10 February 2000. His Papers 1935-1940 (ML MSS 5867) are held by Mitchell Library.
