McConnochie, Helen, 1925-

Date: Sep 1997 to May 1998

By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-

Reference: OHColl-0445

Description: Talks to eleven survivors of the 1931 Napier earthquake who were mainly teenagers at the time of the earthquake. Interviewees are Gordon Amner, Keith Dick, John Hohepa, Althaea Sheppard, Russell Spiller, Agnes Terrill, Dorothy Beddows, Christina Ennor, Leonora Martin, Kenneth Spiller and Douglas Storkey. Other - Agreement form says tapes held at Hawkes Bay Museum Archive (Alexander Turnbull Library not mentioned) Interviewer(s) - Helen McConnochie Quantity: 13 C60 cassette(s). 11 printed abstract(s). 11 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete Summary provided.

Date: 1962

From: [Programmes and ephemera of octavo size for drama productions in New Zealand]

Reference: Eph-A-DRAMA-1962

Description: Includes: Foxton Little Theatre presents "Wild goose chase", by Derek Benfield. Produced by Neal Hunt; guest producer Bernard Jones. Foxton Town Hall, 18-19 June 1962. Programme Hamilton Playbox Repertory Society. "The Gazebo", by Alec Coppel. Produced by Lorna Booth. Playbox Theatre. 14-24 November 1962. Programme. Kaikoura Drama Club presents four one-act plays. "All the tea in China" (producer Valerie Johnston), "And then there were none" (producer Kenneth Bray), "The lonely summit" (producer Doris Perry), "The field of fashion" (producer Ida Vaughan). Kaikoura Memorial Centre, 3 May 1962. Programme "King Arthur". Devised by Mary Annette Hay and Mrs Mclennan, British High Commissioner's wife, and held in British residence 1962? (with Molly Cook, Mary Annette Hay, Anabright Hay, Peter Gwynne, Brian Meads). Programme J C Williamson Theatres Ltd presents "The constant wife", by Somerset Maugham. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. 26 April - 12 May 1962. Programme. (2 copies) J C Williamson Theatres Ltd present "The constant wife", by Somerset Maugham. Grand Opera House Wellington. 1962. Programme (2 copies) J C Williamson Theatres Ltd present "The constant wife", by Somerset Maugham. Repertory Theatre Christchurch, 11-16 June 1962. Programme Old Vic Company. "Duel of angels", by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry. With Vivien Leigh. Directed by Robert Helpmann. Costumes designed by Christian Dior. Grand Opera House Wellington. 1962. Programme (2 copies) Old Vic Company. "Duel of angels", by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry. With Vivien Leigh. Directed by Robert Helpmann. Costumes designed by Christian Dior. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland. Programme (2 copies). Old Vic Company. "Lady of the camellias", by Alexandre Dumas fils, adapted by Andrew Allan. With Vivien Leigh. Produced by Robert Helpmann. Costumes and decor by Carl Toms. Grand Opera House Wellington. 1962. Programme (2 copies) Old Vic Company. "Duel of angels", by Jean Giraudoux, translated by Christopher Fry. With Vivien Leigh. Directed by Robert Helpmann. Costumes designed by Christian Dior. Municipal Opera House Palmerston North, 22-24 February 1962. Programme Old Vic Company. "Lady of the camellias". Pamphlet featuring a portrait of Vivien Leigh in the part of Marguerite Gauthier. (2 different, one for Grand Opera House Wellington season, commencing 26 Feb 1962; and 2 copies of one for His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, commencing 20 January 1962) Old Vic Company. "Twelfth night", by William Shakespeare. With Vivien Leigh. Directed by Robert Helpmann. Costumes and decor by Loudon Sainthill; music by Gordon Jacob. Grand Opera House Wellington. 1962. Programme. (2 copies) Old Vic Company. "Twelfth night", by William Shakespeare. With Vivien Leigh. Directed by Robert Helpmann. Costumes and decor by Loudon Sainthill; music by Gordon Jacob. His Majesty's Theatre Auckland, 1962. Programme Shoestring Players. "The friends of Valerie Lane", by Donald Parsons, and other items. 27-28 March 1962. Programme. (2 copies) Training College Drama Club. "Uncle Harry", by Thomas Job. Produced by Pat Hildreth. 26-28 July [1962?]. Programme. Victoria University of Wellington French Department presents "les Mains Sales" by Jean-Paul Sartre. Produced by Michael Hattaway. Student Union Theatre, 20 June 1962. Wanganui Players present "I remember Mama", by John van Druten. Produced by Lucy Arcus. Wanganui Technical College, Ward Hall, 19-21 November [1962]. Programme Wanganui RSA Little Theatre presents "The bride and the bachelor". produced by Helen McConnochie. 3-7 July 1962. Programme J C Williamson Theatres Ltd presents "The constant wife", by Somerset Maugham. With Googie Withers, Clement McCallin, Terry McDermott, Rod Douglas, Bettina Welch, Alathea Siddons, Marie Redshaw. Directed by John Sumner; scenery and costumes designed by Anne Fraser. 1962 New Zealand tour. Programme. (2 copies) "Wit's end", a Christmas revue. Book, lyrics, music and production by Bruce Mason (with Sunny Amey, Dorothy Toogood, Jessie Weddell, Ralph McAllister, Ian McClymont, John Norton, George Webby. Setting Raymond Boyce; pianist Barry Nalder). Concert Chamber Town Hall Wellington, Tuesday 18 - Friday 21 December; Lower Hutt Little Theatre Saturday 22 December [1962 OR 1956?] Programme (2 copies). Quantity: 17 theatre programmes and flyers.. Physical Description: Letterpress on programmes, sizes below 250 mm.

Date: 1 Oct 1992 - 01 Oct 1992

From: Media Women Oral History Project

By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-

Reference: OHInt-0052/9

Description: Describes family background, especially influence of her father; early interest in poetry and drama; education at Nelson Park, Teawa School, Napier Girls High; Napier earthquake, 1931; speech lessons and examinations; ambitions in acting; teaching speech and drama. Discusses time in London, studying at the Guildhall and then teaching at a secondary school; back in New Zealand teaching drama and English and producing plays; then offered work in radio as a shopping reporter. Details this work and mentions various influences at this time including Elsie Lloyd. Outlines beginnings of talkback, which was often associated with women's radio programmes; work at Rotorua radio station, recording book sessions with Fiona Kidman; work on National Radio in Wellington on Feminine Viewpoint which later turned into Viewpoint; trip to the United States as a guest on American stations; growing awareness of usefulness of networks for radio women. Back in New Zealand was a royal tour reporter, then began `The Way we are' about New Zealanders and their hobbies; then `Future Indicative' looking at people with disabilities which won the Rehabilitation International Award in 1984; also produced `Take Five'. Also discusses Media Women of which she was a founding member and inequalities that existed between male and female journalists. Access Contact - See oral history librarian Venue - Napier Interviewer(s) - Allison Webber Quantity: 3 C60 cassette(s). 1 printed abstract(s). 3 Hours Duration. Finding Aids: Abstract Available - abstracting complete AB 1111.

Date: 12 Nov 1997 - 10 Oct 2002 - 12 Nov 1997 - 10 Oct 2002

By: McConnochie, Helen, 1925-; Hawke's Bay Art Gallery and Museum

Reference: OHColl-0487

Description: Interviewees recall their experiences of the 1931 Hawkes Bay earthquake. Many remember being at school (primary and secondary) or in technical training when the earthquake struck. Others describe the sensation of being inside at work (including factory, hospital, office) or at home. Those outside describe movement in the urban and rural landscapes and subsequent damage, particularly to buildings. A number mention injuries to people. The interviewees are: May Atkinson (nee Reid), Harold Beer, Mary Bennett (nee Ellingham), Monnie (Mons Mary) Devine, Lancelot Wellington Dobbinson, Tui Dunningham (nee Forsythe), Rev Thomas C. Fuohy, Alberta Lilian Gill, Edward James Greaney, Ellen Catherine (Nell) Hay, Margaret (Peggy) Higgins (nee Mayo), Elizabeth Beatrice (Harvey) Hill, Ivan Stanley Hodgkinson, Robert James Hunter Holms, Peter Digby Jeffreys, Percival James Jessep, Joseph (Joe) John King, John Robert Lister, Robert Neil Lister, Ethel Mansfield (nee Pidd), Doreen May McConaghty (nee Tyne), Dorothy Bernice McKay, Leo Noel McLaughlin, William Fred Nightingale, Teresa (Tessie Walsh) Antonia Oliver, Janet Grieg Pearse (nee West), Gwendolyn (Gwen) M. Rouse, Agnes Cara Saxby, Ronald Shakespeare, Owen Somerset Smith, Evelyn Smyth, Lawrence (Lawry) Spackman, Eugenie Frances (Melhuish) Stark, Ronald Archer Steel, Keith Swailes, Tamangaro (Tama) Te Marnumairangi Tomoana, Gordon Ernest Vogther, Frank Desmond Gordon Walker, Percy Watson. Awards/funding - The first group of interviews were funded by an Award in Oral History Interviewer(s) - Helen McConnochie Arrangement: Original recordings: OHC-019024 - OHC-019052 Summaries of abstracts: OHA-6564 - OHA-6581, OHA-6582 - OHA-6602 Quantity: 29 C60 cassette(s). 39 printed abstract(s). 39 interview(s). Finding Aids: Abstract Available - other summaries rather than abstracts. Transfers: See backfile for three agreement forms..

Date: Aug 2007

From: Kidman, Fiona Judith (Dame), 1940- : Papers

Reference: MS-Papers-9678-052

Description: Includes personal correspondence, as well as correspondence with literary figures on professional matters Quantity: 1 folder(s). Physical Description: Mss, typescripts