Frank Maxwell DUNN [6435]

  General Notes:

1975 WA Death Dunn Frank Maxwell WA 4945/75

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The Australian Women's Weekly Saturday 23 December 1944
Christmas Radio Play
A Christmas play, 'The Star Still Shines," written by playwright Maxwell Dunn, will be presented by 2GB on Christmas Eve, December 24, at 8 o'clock. Lyndall Barbour will play the leading role. As it was difficult to find a play suitable for a Christmas broadcast, Maxwell Dunn was commissioned to write one.
"The Star Still Shines" centres on the Dentons, a typical Australian family-Robert Denton and his wife, Helen, handsome Richard, the eldest son, and idealist daughter Thelma, who is 18.
The second son, Peter (or Pip, as the family call him), is a medical student, an introspective young man with pacifist ideas. His ambition is to heal and save life.
John, the youngest in the family, is ill.
The scene is the Dentons' home while they are having their Christmas party. John's Christmas present is a fort and guns.
Then the scene changes, and listeners hear the Dentons ten years later. Again a Christmas party is in progress, but the festivities which mark this party have a deeper significance, for some of the old faces are missing.
Thelma and Richard have both married, but unhappily.
Time has also brought other changes to the family.
Then the scene flashes back to the first Christmas, ten years before, and the occasion is seen in a new light through the revelations of what has become of these people in ten years.
There is an added significance in mother's efforts to dissuade Richard from contemplating marriage, and his laughing rejection of this advice. There is a new significance, too, in Robert Denton's interview with his doctor.
There is irony in Peter's remarks that he hopes to live to an old age and devote all his efforts to saving life, and an indication of future events in young John's interest in the fort and guns given him as a Christmas gift. There's compassion and pathos in Thelma's visionary outlook on the world to come.
The second Christmas attraction, "Star Theatre," will present "The Garricks," starring Arundel Nixon and Brenda Dunrich, on Christmas night, December 25, at 9 o'clock. This play, too, is written by Maxwell Dunn.
MAXWELL DUNN, author of "The Star Still Shines.

The Advertiser Wednesday 24 December 1975
DEATH NOTICES
DUNN- Frank Maxwell, Davenport Terrace, Hazelwood Park passed away Dec 22 at Royal Perth Hospital. Beloved father of Peter, father in law of Jenny, grandfather of Samantha.

DUNN - Frank Maxwell
Suddenly at Royal Perth Hospital, dearly loved husband of Elaine.
Dearly loved papa of Sarah,Toby, Jill and Rod Heal.

The Advertiser (Adelaide) Friday 26 December 1975
FUNERAL NOTICE
DUNN. - THE FRIENDS of the late FRANK MAXWELL DUNN, of Davenport terrace, Hazelwood Park, are advised that a Memorial Service will be held at 2.30 p.m. on TUE3SDAY December 30, at St. David's Church, Glynburn road, Burnside.

  Other Records

• Repertory Theatre: Tragedy of Othello, 24 Apr 1940, Perth.

Max married Maudelaine Leah FLEXMORE [6436] [MRIN: 2192] on 21 Oct 1939 in St Kilda, Victoria, Australia. (Maudelaine Leah FLEXMORE [6436] was born on 3 Oct 1915 in Brunswick, Victoria, Australia, died on 10 Dec 1992 in Westbourne Park, Adelaide, South Australia and was cremated on 14 Dec 1992 in Centennial Park Crematorium, Adelaide, South Australia.)