A Popular Vision: The Arts and the Left in New Zealand 1930-1950
Index
Index
A.H. and A. W. Reed, 159, 166, 169
Aid for Russia Committees, 19
Aimers, Jack, 75
Airey, Willis, 16, 91, 112, 127, 218
Alley, Rewi, 140
Amey, Sunny, 220
Andrews, E. S., 95
Angelo, J. R., 179
Angry Penguins, 49
Anschutz, R. P., 15, 16, 26, 42, 91, 112, 218
Appleton, W., 199
Ascent of F6, The (Auden and Isherwood), 203-4
Ashton, Beatrice, 217
Associated Booksellers of New. Zealand, 44, 108
Atmore, H.A., 19, 20
Auckland Drama Council, 224
Auckland Little Theatre Society, 175, 177
Auckland People's Theatre see People's Theatre (Auckland) Auckland Repertory Theatre, 177
Auckland University College, 3, 42-3, 91, 112, 114, 203; Labour Club, 178
Auckland WEA Dramatic Club, 95, 175-8, 185
Auden, W. H., 12, 58
Australian New Writing, 150, 152-3
Ayo, Ella see Stewart
Baeyertz, R. E., 184
Bailey, Rona see Meek Ballantyne, D.W., 156
Barker, A.J.D., 143
Barr, Margaret, 187
Barrington, A.C, 95
Barton, Shirley, 180
Basham, Doris, 26, 90, 111, 131
Basham, Jack, 26, 68, 88, 90, 111, 133, 180
Baxter, K. M., 15, 95, 119
Beaglehole, J.C., 3,16, 42, 77, 94, 95, 117, 121, 132-3, 143, 158, 160, 168, 169, 200
Beams, Nat, 217
Bell, Muriel, 96
Bennett, S. J., 83
Bensemann, Leo, 100
Bertram, James, 2, 32, 44-5, 46, 140
Birchfield, A. J., 198
Birchfield, Connie see Rawcliffe Black, Letty, 210
Blair, Ernest, 179
Blanc, A.D.G., 96
Bland, W. B., 194
page 281book selling and publishing (general), 80, 87, 98-100, 133-4, 135-7, 157-60, 165, 166, 169
Boyes, G. Hunter, 72
Brasch, Charles, 1, 2, 4, 33, 44, 56, 126-7, 190, 191, 232
British Drama League, 176, 190
Broughton, W.S, 174
Brown, S., 180
Cadman, Nan, 208
Campion, Edith, 220
Canterbury University College, 2, 35, 42, 106, 114, 203; Radical Club, 203
Carman, A. H., 99
carpenters' union, 90, 97, 110, 179, 226-7
Cartmill, Frank, 179
Caxton Press, 3, 29, 121, 140, 141, 159, 160, 165, 168, 169, 185
censorship, 39, 43-4, 80-2, 90, 129-30, 131-2
centennial publications, 3, 121, 158-9
Central Labour Bookshop (Dunedin), 95
Chapman, R., 45
Chapman, Rita, 180
Chapman-Taylor, Ray, 143
Chew, Rona, 196
China Society, 136
Christchurch Co-operative Book Society, 87, 100, 102-10, 112, 118, 123, 124, 128, 133, 134-5; clientele, 106-7; and Communist Party, 94, 104, 109; demise of, 137; finances, 107-10; and labour movement, 104-5, 109, 162; membership, 92-3, 105, 109; origins of, 92-3; and Progressive Publishing Society, 140-1, 149-50, 153, 162; publications, 140, 170
Christie, Travers, 93
Clarte Book Room, 93
Communist International, 9, 10, 13, 17
Communist Party of Australia, 14, 18
Communist Party of Great Britain, 9-10, 14, 64, 81, 85
Communist Party of New Zealand, 12, 14-16, 17-19, 20, 21, 35, 36, 54, 87, 157, 227-9; and co-operative book movement, 90, 92-4, 95, 99-100, 104, 109, 112, 117-18, 126, 135; and Left Book Club, 72, 82-3; and Progressive Publishing Society, 148-9, 162; and theatre, 181, 187, 192, 194, 196, 199-200, 208, 210, 211, 216, 228. See also Unity Centre (Christchurch), Unity Centre (Wellington)
Communist Party of the Soviet Union, 11, 22
conscientious objectors, 40, 81
consumers' co-operative movement, 96-8, 174
Contemporary Art Society (Melbourne), 49, 128
Cook, Eric, 33
Co-op Books, 96-7, 98, 100, 107, 118, 133, 142, 145, 150, 152, 153, 155, 160
Co-op Bookshop (Christchurch) see Christchurch Co-operative Book Society Co-operative Book News, 96, 100, 101, 103-4, 104-5, 106, 108, 119, 142, 144, 155
Coppard, J.A.S., 176, 194, 203, 222
Country Library Service, 3, 80, 112
Cowan, James, 158
Coyne, Eileen, 11, 129, 168, 180
Coyne, J. Denis, 180
Critic, 42
Crosse, Catherine, 217
Curnow, Allen, 1, 2, 5, 33, 45, 46, 47, 56, 57, 58, 147, 148, 152, 153, 159, 165, 167, 173, 190, 191, 222, 232, 233
Current Book Distributors (Sydney), 86, 142
page 282Delahunty, Jim, 217
Delahunty, June, 217
de Maunay, Francois, 210
Devanny, Jean, 13, 24, 105, 130, 229
Devereux, Selwyn, 102-3, 107, 123
Doig, S., 77
Douglas Social Credit movement, 32, 33, 74, 103
Downstage Theatre, 222
Dronke, Maria, 244
Duncan, Ken, 196
Dunedin Co-operative Book Society, 95-6, 125-7, 135, 141, 162, 170
Dunningham, Archie, 72
Edwards, Les, 143
Eiby, George, 219
England, Maud, 94
Evans, Doug, 208
Evans, Judy, 227
Fabian Society, 142
Fairburn, A.R.D., 1, 2, 5, 16, 26, 32, 33-4, 42, 45, 46, 57, 91, 145, 147, 152,177, 180, 187, 218, 231
Federal Theatre Project, 24, 181, 224
Fellowship of Australian Writers, 13
Fenton, Harold E., 66 , 92, 93, 104, 140, 141, 164, 166, 163, 167
Ferguson, Jean, 117
film, 6, 16, 19, 22, 33, 50, 70, 162, 203, 227
Findlay, J. N., 72
Finlay, A. Martyn, 16, 32, 33, 75, 76, 77, 79, 117, 224
Finlay, Jane, 143
Firth, Cedric, 180
Firth, Clifton, 112
Fisher, A.G.B., 117
Fisher, A.J.C., 6, 180, 182, 185, 224
Flannery, Ann, 220
Fortune, Bart A., 43, 93-4, 95, 117, 120
Frankl, Otto, 75
Fraser, Peter, 4, 42, 81, 159, 192, 197-8
Freeman, L. B., 93
French Maid Coffee Bar, 212
Friends of the Soviet Union, 12, 14, 15-16, 19, 90, 92, 93, 99-100, 101, 116, 135
Garvey, Lee, 208
Gawith, Cazna, 208
Glover, Denis, 1, 2, 3, 5, 16, 29, 30, 33-4, 35, 43, 45, 46, 47, 56-7,159, 160, 174, 190, 191
Goff, Ken, 75
Gollancz, Victor, 61-2, 63, 64, 66, 85, 117
Goodwin, Arnold, 175-6, 177, 178, 179, 224
Gordon, Ian A., 140, 150, 153, 155, 156, 161, 168
Gough, C. H., 16
Gould, W. H., 20, 94
Grafton Shakespeare and Dramatic Club, 177
Gray, John, 213
Gray, Oriel, 213
Grierson, John, 6
Griffin, Gerald, 13
Griffin, R. F., 116, 125, 140, 143, 148-9, 155
Group Observation Fellowship of New Zealand, 78-9
Haigh, Frank, 91
Hall J.W.D.,77,82
Hamilton People's Theatre, 193-8, 205, 206, 214, 225
Hannan, Ruby, 74
Harding, Guy, 227
Harley, R. E., 174
Harris, John, 72, 96, 125-6, 157-8, 159
Hartley, Dennis, 210
page 283Hayward, Edna, 194
Hayward, Rudall, 227
Henderson, Andrew Kennaway, 27, 28-9, 30, 31, 38-9, 42, 45, 87, 100, 140, 170
Henderson, Hubert, 75, 92, 143
Henderson, Louise, 75
Herring, Horace, 19
Hirschfield, S., 143
Hislop, T., 199
Hoerr, George, 208
Hoerr, Vivian, 208
Hogben, G. L., 184
Holcroft, M. H., 2, 3, 33, 45, 47, 56, 147, 152, 160, 165, 223, 232, 233
Holland, Sid, 199
Holmes, Cecil, 21, 227, 248 n.28
Holmes, Paul, 180
Hunter, Ted, 16
Hyde, Robin see Wilkinson, Iris
Ikin, Sam, 72
Industrial Worker, 227
International Bookshop (Christchurch), 68, 92, 105, 135
International Bookshop (Wellington), 93-4, 117, 120, 135
International Brigade, 11, 12, 52, 150-1, 185
International Publishers (USA), 94, 142
International Writers' Association for the Defence of Culture, 12-13
Ireland, W. B., 164
Jackson, George, 112
Jackson-Thomas, Arthur, 86-7, 91, 95, 112, 136, 142, 151, 153, 154-5, 171
Jacoby, Peter, 75
Johns, W. G., 179
Jorgensen, Hein, 208
Kennedy, Rodney, 72
Kennerly, J. G., 91
Kerridge, J., 76
Kilburn, W. E., 180
Kisch, Egon, 13
Labour Bookroom (Wellington), 93
Labour government, 3-4, 37, 41, 223-4
Labour Party, 14, 15-16, 18, 20, 36, 70, 74, 76, 82, 93, 104, 112, 162, 178, 179, 184, 192, 199
Labour Representation Committees, 104, 109, 119 , 131, 192
Langley, Frank, 104
Lawrence and Wishart, 94, 110, 142
Leathern, Samuel, 91
Lee, John A., 5, 42, 148, 158, 199, 201
Lee-Johnson, Eric, 218
Left Book Club (England), 1, 61-5, 68-9, 85, Left Book Club (New Zealand), 37, 44, 61, 65-87, 92, 95, 99, 101, 126, 182; arrival in New Zealand, 65-6; and Communist Party, 82-3; demise of, 85-6; drama groups, 71-2, 83, 95; membership, 66, 68-9, 84, 86; 'New Zealand Left Book Club' (1949), 86-7, 171; New Zealand Left Book Club Association, 66-8, 81-2; publications, 77-8
Left Book Club Theatre Guild, 65, 181, 187
Leonardo Bookshop (Melbourne), 128
Lewin, J. P., 143, 248 n.28
Locke, Elsie see Freeman
Lowry, Robert, 3, 159, 168, 180
Lusty, Mervyn, 224
McAra,W.P., 119
McCahon, Colin, 5, 48, 72, 128, 212
McClure, Alex, 16
McClymont, Ian, 210
McCombs, Elizabeth, 16
McCormick, E.H., 5, 45, 152, 158
page 284McCreary, John, 199, 201, 204, 211, 217
McDonald, J.C.D., 68
McGillick, Tony, 70
McGowan, Elizabeth, 16, 95, 100
Mackay, Ian A., 139, 140, 143, 145, 162, 166
McKay, R. A., 143
McKenzie, Jim, 194
Mackie, John, 194
Maloney, J. K., 75
Manawatu Co-operative Alliance (Auckland), 97
Mann, Q, 99
Martin, Bili, 208
Martin, D. M., 61, 68, 77, 78, 208
Martin, Henry, 205, 206, 208, 210, 211, 213, 217, 229
Mason, Bruce, 204, 208, 214, 220, 222
Mason, R.A.K., 1, 2, 3, 5, 15, 19, 26, 33, 45, 46, 47, 71, 112, 140, 172, 173-5, 176, 205, 213, 218, 221, 223, 224-5, 227, 228, 229; and People's Theatre, 177-8, 179, 180, 181, 183, 184-92, 193
Mass Observation Movement, 78
Meek, Ron, 143, 145, 147,150, 168, 193, 194, 195, 196, 197, 199-202, 204, 209, 211, 213, 215, 217, 226, 228, 240, 244
Meek, Rona, 208, 209, 217, 210, 243, 244
Metropolitan Co-operative Alliance, 174
Milner, Ian, 32, 33, 34, 52, 54, 57, 58, 75, 76, 140, 224
Modern Books (Dunedin) see Dunedin Co-operative Book Society
Modern Books (Wellington) see Wellington Co-operative Book Society
Moore, Merrill, 147
Moreton, M., 94
Movement Against War and Fascism, 13
Mulgan, John, 5, 42, 47, 65, 191, 202
Munro, Hector, 194
Munro, M., 94
Murdoch, P., 94
Nash, Walter, 80, 93, 96, 132, 133, 199
National Library Service, 4, 223
New Poems (Glover and Milner ed.), 57
New Theatre Company, 222
New Theatre Group (Auckland), 187, 209
New Theatre League (Sydney), 24, 181, 197, 213, 221
New Writing, 150
New York Group Theatre, 23
New Zealand Best Poems, 35
New Zealand Co-operative Alliance, 94
New Zealand Co-operative Book Society, 94
New Zealand Co-operative Publishing Society see Progressive Publishing Society New Zealand Drama Council, 176, 224
New Zealand Federation of Co-operatives, 97
New Zealand Fortnightly Review, 35
New Zealand Institute of International Affairs, 139, 141, 158
New Zealand Library Association, 109, 132
New Zealand Listener, 39, 46, 147, 160
New Zealand Literary Fund, 4, 158, 223
New Zealand Mercury, 35
New Zealand New Writing, 5, 47, 150-6, 159, 160, 161, 167, 168
New Zealand Public Service Association, 21
New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with Russia, 19-21, 69, 107, 162, 206, 208, 209, 220, 229
New Zealand Soviet Bulletin, 19
New Zealand-USSR Society see New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with Russia Nunes, Ray, 118, 125, 211, 216
Nye, W. J., 116
O'Keefe, A. H., 26, 91, 143, 193
O'Reilly, Ron, 72
pacifists, 18
Paine, Haswell, 194, 196, 240, 241
page 285Paine, Lesbia, 194
Palmer, C. E., 78
Paris, Percy, 20
Parker, H. W., 179
Parker, Hamilton, 74
Parry, Evan, 94
Paul, D. Blackwood, 3, 65-6, 87, 133, 170, 193, 196, 209, 244
Paul, Janet see Wilkinson
Paul's Book Arcade, 3, 66, 140, 141, 169, 170
Peacock, A., 245
Pearson, Bill, 152
Pelorus Press, 3
People's Theatre (Auckland), 175-93, 206, 220, 225; demise of, 193; formation of, 175, 177-8; membership, 179-80, 193, 203; productions, 181-6, 192, 193
People's Theatre Magazine, 181, 182, 186
People's Voice, 12, 14, 18, 19, 81, 93, 173, 185, 190, 191, 194,199, 202, 208, 210, 228, 229
Perkins, Christopher, 6
Perry, A. R., 75
Pharazyn, W. N., 31-2, 33
Phoenix, 2, 4, 7, 33, 35, 43, 46, 58-9, 66, 233
Plischke, Ernst, 97
Popular Front, 9-25, 53, 230, 232
Potter, Nance, 243
Powell, Eric, 74
Prichard, Katharine Susannah, 13, 48, 52, 87, 152
Progressive Book Society (Auckland), 89, 101, 110-15, 120, 123, 127-8, 131, 133, 135;
clientele, 111-13; and Communist Party, 112,115; demise of, 136; finances, 113-4, 170; and labour movement, 110-11, 115, 120; membership, 91, 111-2, 114, 115;
origins of, 90-1; and Progressive Publishing Society, 140, 141, 142, 161-2, 164, 170
Progressive Bookshop (Dunedin), 95
Progressive Drama Group (Christchurch), 229
Progressive Publishing Society, 3, 95, 97, 113, 116, 121, 125,126, 139-71, 174, 226, 233; criticism of, 148-50, 152-5, 164-6, 168; demise of, 161-4; finances, 160-4; formation of, 140-1; membership, 140, 143; publications, 145-8, 150-2
Rackley, Alan, 74
Rawcliffe, Connie, 93
Rhodes, Harold Winston, 7, 11, 15, 16, 20, 27-8, 29-36 passim, 44, 48, 54, 140, 156; and Christchurch Co-operative Book Society, 92-3, 97, 102-3, 107, 112, 123, 130, 132,134; and Left Book Club, 61, 68, 71, 72, 75, 81; writing in Tomorrow, 25, 39-40, 45, 47-60, 225, 230-2, 234
Richards, Bill, 72
Richmond, N. M., 26, 91, 112, 177
Robertson, William Lewis, 96-8, 104-5, 135, 140, 143
Roscoe, Stan, 75
Sargeson, Frank, 1, 3,16, 33-4, 45, 46, 47, 112, 129, 147, 148, 151, 153-4, 156, 165, 174, 177, 184, 191, 192-3, 218, 231
Saunders, C. F., 68, 69-70, 75, 84
Savage, Michael Joseph, 199
Scotney, A. H., 75, 77, 95
Scott, W. J., 98, 117, 121, 122, 143, 154, 203, 205, 209, 243
Seers, Dudley, 170
Sewell, W. A., 15, 16, 42, 43, 91, 112, 143, 179, 180, 218
Shankland, Tahu, 143, 208, 210
Shaw, Helen, 152
Shaw, R. V., 91
page 286Silverstone, Harold, 199
Silverstone, Mark, 96,125
Simmance, Owen, 72
Sinclaire, Frederick, 27, 28, 29-30, 31, 36, 39, 45, 47, 49, 51, 147, 165
Singleton, A. D., 212
Smart, Doris, 194
Smee, Eileen see Coyne Smith, Arnold T., 68, 194
Smith, G. M., 145
Smithyman, Kendrick, 152
Social Research Society (Christchurch), 79
Social Science Research Bureau, 79 socialist realism, 22-5
Society for Closer Relations with Russia see New Zealand Society for Closer Relations with Russia Somerset, H.C.D., 148, 151
Souter, Bruce, 29-30, 32, 71, 77, 92
Souter, Jane, 140
Souter, Ralph, 31
Soviet News, 12, 15, 16, 19, 50
Spanish Civil War, 10, 11, 12, 13, 17, 33, 36, 63-4, 226
Spanish Medical Aid Committees, 14, 16-17, 69, 70, 112, 185
Spiller, Tom, 76
Stagecraft Theatre, 222
Stanley, Tom, 91
Stead, Robert, 206-8, 207, 209, 210, 216-7, Stewart, Ella, 94
Sturmer, D. von, 94
Sutch, Morva, 26
Sutch, W. B., 26, 31, 33, 75, 76, 94, 95, 139-40, 141, 143, 144-5, 158, 159, 161, 203
Swallow, C. G., 99
Texidor, Greville, 1, 150-1, 168, 218-9
Thorn, A., 95
Till the Day I Die (Odets), 197-8
Tilly, Grant, 220
Tomorrow, 1, 4, 5, 11, 12, 14, 25, 27-60, 64, 65, 66, 68, 69, 79, 84, 98, 99, 101, 122, 132, 142, 183, 184, 187, 192-3, 224; circulation, 31; content, 32-5; contributors, 31-4; establishment of, 27-31; and Labour government, 37, 40-2; philosophy of, 35-40; suppression of, 40-2; Winston Rhodes in, 39-40, 47-60, 230-32
trade unions, 14, 16, 21, 70, 71, 73-4, 75, 173-4, 226-7, 229; and co-operative book movement, 91, 99, 104, 106, 109, 110-11, 112, 119, 131; and Progressive Publishing Society, 162; and theatre, 178,179-80, 192, 187
Turnbull, Michael, 217
Turnovsky, Fred, 75
Unicorn Press, 3
Unity Centre (Christchurch), 104, 227-8
Unity Centre (Wellington), 206, 216, 220, 224, 227-8
Unity Theatre (London), 23, 24, 181, 187, 195, 206, 220
Unity Theatre (Wellington), 24, 101, 205-22, 224, 225, 226, 229; and Communist Party, 208, 211, 216; demise of, 222; membership, 206-8, 211-12, 216-19, 220; origins of, 205-6; productions, 208-9, 210-11, 213, 214, 220-1
University of New Zealand Press, 3, 169
University of Otago, 42; Dramatic Society, 203
Verrier, Robert, 184
Verse Alive (Glover and Rhodes ed.), 56-7
Victoria University College, 2, 35, 42-3, 120; Debating Club, 120, 202; Dramatic Club, 202-3; Extravaganzas, 198-202; Free Discussions Club, 2, 43, 93, 120, 202; Tramping Club, 202
Vogt, Anton, 33, 143, 147, 151, 204
page 287Wadman, Howard, 243
Waiting for Lefty (Odecs), 23, 71, 83, 175, 177-8, 180, 192-3, 197, 203
Walsh, F. P., 248 n.28
Walter, Cyril V., 106
Watson, C. Gordon, 15, 19, 53, 76, 84, 87, 120, 228
Webby, George, 220
Wellington Co-operative Book Society, 87, 89, 98, 100-1, 102, 115-25, 127-8, 129, 131, 132, 134, 135, 199, 205, 216, 218; clientele, 124; and Communist Party, 116, 117-18; demise of, 136-7; finances, 124; and labour movement, 116, 119, 131; membership, 94-5, 119-20; origins of, 93-5; and Progressive Publishing Society, 139-41, 161-2, 164, 165, 166, 170; publications, 139-40, 159, 170-1
Wellington Repertory Theatre, 204, 219, 220
Wellington Teachers' Training College, 120-1, 122, 217; Drama Club, 203-5
Wellington Thespians, 204, 220
Whitcombe and Tombs, 99, 107, 114, 159-60, 162, 166, 169
White, Dorothy Neal, 96
Wilkinson, Iris, 5, 33, 35, 44, 90, 129, 191
Wilkinson, Janet, 143
Williams, P., 26
Williams, S., 243
Wilson, Ormond, 16, 26, 40, 94
Wolfskehl, Karl, 218
Wood, Pearl, 210
Woollaston, Toss, 5, 45, 48, 231
Workers' Art Club (Melbourne), 28
Workers' Art Theatre (Sydney) see New Theatre League (Sydney)
Workers' Educational Association, 14, 69, 80, 104, 107, 112, 120, 134, 178, 182, 187, 227. See also Auckland WEA Dramatic Club
Workers' Weekly, 12, 14, 15, 66, 76, 82, 84, 173, 184, 198, 227, 228
Working Woman, 35
Worthington, George, 72
Writers' Association (Sydney), 13
Writers' International, 13
Writers' League (Sydney), 13
Yearbook of the Arts in New Zealand, 35, 215
Young Communist League, 178
Young People's Club, 107