WINNING PLAYWRIGHTS
Results of NBS Competitions
EARLY 300 playwrights, living in widely-separated parts of New Zealand, entered for the two play-writing competitions held recently by the National -Broadcasting Service. . The first competition brought 204 entries and the second, which required dramatisation of historical characters, brought 85 entries. The first prize in each competition was £50, second prize £25, and there were four third prizes of £10 each. The first and second prizes in the first competition were divided between John Gundry, 22 Oban Road, Brown’s Bay, Auckland, with "A Certain Wilderness," and B. A. Snowdon, 25 Sugarloaf Road, Brooklyn, Wellington, with "Bomber, Over Marshmoor." The four third prizes were won by Mrs. B. M. Howell, 22 Huntly Avenue, Auckland, with "Flat Spin’; E. N. Taylor, 1A Flagstaff Hill, Wellington, with "The Man Who ’Phoned"; Miss G. Burt, 19 William Street, Dunedin, with " Good Hunting"; and Henry McNeish, 191 St. Aubyn Street, New Plymouth, with "Hunger Strike." In the second competition John Gundry was again the winner, with "Dear Mr. Spectator." The second prize was won by Mrs. Z. Mountjoy, 2A Cashmere Avenue, Wellington, with "The Story of Ludwig van Beethoven." The four third prizes went to Miss Mavis H. Jack, 44 Mayfair Flats, The Terrace, Wellington, with "Flight to Gretna"; C. M. Moncrieff, The Cliffs, Nelson, with "The Eve of Salamis’; F. W. Reed, Norfolk Street, Whangarei, with "The Prophecy of Cazotte"; and Mrs. F. G. a
Soper, 557 Highgate, Dunedin, with "Matthew Flinders." This is not the first time John Gundry has figured in a play-writing contest. His "Strange Harmony" shared the first prize in a competition held some time ago by the Army Education and Welfare Service. Before that he had not submitted scripts to the NBS, but some of his work was broadcast by the ZB stations in 1937. More recently he wrote "Campground’s Over Jordan,’ heard from 1YA. He is a relation to Tyrone Guthrie, who wrote "The Flowers Are Not for You to Pick,’ broadcast from the BBC and also in New Zealand.
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 9
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338WINNING PLAYWRIGHTS New Zealand Listener, Volume 14, Issue 361, 24 May 1946, Page 9
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