The Age from Melbourne, Victoria, Australia • Page 2

2- THE AGE, Wednesday, November 21, 1979 In Flinders Street, a phoenix is arising I SHS I 13 l.N. J. Sir Keith Murdoch Mr. Murdoch will retain the bid in the glory of the new," says Mr. Cornish.

The prospect of a single flooB layout, new studios and equipment should give the station, once known as 'The Greater', a weapon to ward off the dreaded Mr. Derryn Hinch in the ratings war. Gas man RUDDY-FACED, Lancashire-born mining engineer Mr. Bill Lawson, 46, took a punt and yesterday struck gas near Port Campbell. If all goes well, the man from Beach Petroleum, with a budget of only $350,000 could have struck it rich, this time foS Victoria.

This is small cost when one considers Esso Exploration and Production Australia Incorporated recently announced a $13 million exploration in Western Queensland. After drilling in Trinidad in 1956, Mr. Lawson struck oil offshore at Abu Dhabi and watched 30,000 barrels a day pump down the pipeline. At Port Campbell, we hear the firm reinterpreted seismic work conducted by the big guns in the industry, dug one hole and bingo! Drilling went on 24 hours a day for three weeks on a dairy farm owned by Mr. and Mrs.

Jim Rylance. We hear the noise and arc lights didn't bother a soul, in fact the cows increased milk production. Among this list of subscribers to the first directory, issued in for Edison-Bell Telephones. was John Danks, then and up until about 20 years ago purveyors of all things lavatorial. There are now 814,175 subscribers.

Calls went through the old Stock Exchange building in Collins Street West, where a manual exchange was installed. Telecom will celebrate this with a trade fair of impressive dimensions the Exhibition Buildings next year, coinciding with the anniversary of the building. We are told the biggest display (11,000 square metres) will be from our friends in China. Curiously, both the Americans and the Russians have knocked back invitations, as have half the Australian States. New South Wales, bless its pokie-playing heart, said it felt no need to be promoted in Victoria.

Radio moves AFTER 54 years the greater 3UZ is planning to move from the city to Carlton. The Oliver J. Nilsen group will make the move from Bourke Street to Berkeley Street in about a year. The new three storey building, formerly leased by Ramsay Surgical is a far cry from the cramped city studio. The general manager, Mr, Bob Cornish will shed a tear for the old station, but not for long.

"We Young will have no difficulty adapting to his new role. Quiet Times AS 'THE TIMES' and the 'Sunday Times' put themselves back together again in London, we learn what it is that journalists get up to during enforced idleness. Mr. Philip Howard, who becomes literary editor of "The Times' next month, worked as a butler, helping out his wife who does posh catering. He learned an interesting fact, "Professional waitresses carry nutcrackers in their pockets in case the champagne corks get Others have been busy with books such as 'English Oddities', 'Love Letters from the Trenches' and, of course, What's Wrong with Britain'.

Amid all this is was an Australian who came up with the best line we saw. Mr. Malcolm Turnbull, a Rhodes Scholar, joined the 'Sunday Times' after the suspension and has since left without writing a word. "Bit slow around here." he declared on his way out. Phony display A CENTURY agoi 23 people 'and firms were in Melbourne's first phone book.

It was hardly a book, really, just a printed cardboard sheet and the marvellous thing about it was it had no numbers. birthright, his father's position. Older 'Herald' staff recall the quarter of a century ago when Mr. Murdoch and his mother gave the go-ahead for the bust of Sir Keith by Andor Meszaros in the 'Herald' foyer. "It's not a likeness," one told us, "it makes him look like a Roman Yesterday the senator's son entered the arena.

Jigsaw seesaw FIRST CAME the heavily publicisedcampaign-by adopted people seeking their real parents. Then there was' an outcry over the tactics used by Jigsaw, an organisation formed to co-ordinate the searches, including claims that harassment and devious means had been used to get information. Now a 30 member strong group -called the Adoptive Parents Association has emerged in opposition to Jigsaw. They feel that judgment of adoption has been distorted by "obsessive i The group is seeking a voluntary register of adopted people, under the control of the State Government Mr. Ian Hamilton, a 32-year-old lawyer who speaks for the.

association, tells us that uncontrolled access to birth records could lead to trauma for both adopted child and parent. "Mum may be a scarlet woman and he may have been brought up in a ONE PLACE to be yesterday, in the heat of Mr. Rupert Murdoch's attempt at taking over the-mighty Herald and Weekly Times empire, was up the carpeted stairs in the cool, first-floor bar of the Phoenix Hotel, Flinders Street There, in the watering hole of 'Herald and 'Sun staff, when the red phone rang at 3.13 the trotting writer who answered it, called out: "Is there a Mr. Murdoch in the bar?" Wisecracks aside, the atmosphere seemed to be a mixture "of anger and apathy. Anger, first, that one of the three newspaper, radio and TV groups in Australia might be swallowed for $126 million.

have four times that much in assets in Melbourne alone," a senior executive tells us). And the apathy, or perhaps a combination of shock and caution, was about the possibility of being sold to a proprietor who has seldom enjoyed a good press. It was Mr. Abe Rosenthal, executive editor of the "New York Times' who expressed the wish that Mr. Murdoch would disappear from New York, along with his "mean, ugly violent journalism." But as Mr.

Murdoch said at the time: "They'll get over it." Dame Elisabeth Murdoch, the widow of Sir Keith Murdoch, who built the Herald empire, was thrilled about her son's move. "I'm very strict religious family he says. Mr. Hamilton, who has an adopted two-year-old son, says the 'association hopes to attract support at. a barbecue on' Sunday at Baxter Park, beyond Frankston.

It is a "bring your own everything" occasion. Including, perhaps, your parents? Modest Mick MANY -FIRST authors complain that the size of their names, on the dust jacket of their books is too small. Not so Mr. Mick Young, Labor's humble frontbencher, from Adelaide. After seeing a proof of the cover of 'I want to Work', his book on unemployment, Mr.

Young telephoned his publishers in some alarm. "What are you trying to do to me," he inquired with his old shearer's vigor, "turn me into a Harry M. Miller?" Mri Young's name is certainly large but his publisher, Cassell, tells us that his name will sell it. If this turns out to be so, we are sure Mr. excited and proud that Rupert has been able to make an attempt to get back into Flinders Street," she told us.

"It's natural that he should want to be there." We asked about criticism of Mr, Murdoch's newspapers. "He's probably a modern edition of his father," said Dame Elisabeth. "His methods are probably suitable for the times in which we live." She described her son as a man of strong sense of purpose and high ideals for journalism, i "I hope that he would be able to bring something valuable to the 'Herald'. He is a very steady, balanced person and I know that he dqes not go into anything without a great deal of forethought." In Flinders 'Street it has always been accepted wisdom that Mr, Murdoch would one day attempt to return to what some see as his IE every Monday with THE AGE THE AGE. Prices MONDAY-FRIDAY Recommended and Maximum only Victoria and Southern NSW (by road)- 14c Broken Hill 20c BY ACT, NSW, incT.

Cooma South Coast, Brisbane, Gold Coast, Sunshine Coast, Sth. King fs.20c Nth. Queensland. Perth, Alice' Springs, Tannant Crk, 26c Darwin, Port Moresby 35c WESTWOOD CONTINUES IN THE COPYING VEIN MILDARA CHESTNUT TEAL OLOROSO SHERRY ART Mary Eagle TONIGHT'S TV Brian Courtis pajjpjjjjMijSjjjjBjjjjBaMBaBjajjMiiaaaBi WKRP IN CINCINNATI, GTV-9, 7.30 pm: Mildly amusing series set in a US radio station. In tonight's episode a timid news director threatens to jump from a window ledge when his manhood Is questioned.

DICK CLARK'S LIVE WEDNESDAY, HSV-7, 7.30 pm: This new US variety series promises acceptable middle-of-the-road entertainment. Tonight's guests include Muhammad All, Diana Ross, Frankie Avalon, Chuck Berry, Wayne Newton and Kristy Mc-Nichol. TYCOON, ABV-2, 8.30 pm: This BBC mystery serial starring Diane Cilento as a beautiful widow writing her husband's biography began promisingly. But later episodes were rambling and tedious. Still, if you have struck with it this far, you may as well watch tonight's episode.

It's the last. LOU GRANT, ATV-0, 930 pm: An earlier series of this show did not rate as well as it deserved. Perhaps this new series will do better. Ed Asner stars as a tough- guy journalist who is really a softie at heart. IDs strong performance has been matched with good scripts.

In tonight's episode one of Lou's reporters investigates Los Angeles street gangs. stv BRYAN WESTWOOD taught' himself to paint by copying late Velasquez portraits and making paintings in the style of Braque and Velasquez and has continued in the copyingvein. His pictures at Australian Galleries, Collingwood offer a fair satrfple of skilfully simulated bits of tape, old portrait and wedding photos, and pale, polite reminders of art treasures such as hang in the Russian exhibition. Dead birds, spiky, shells and stringed musical instruments, reminiscent of 17th century Spanish and Flemish still-lifes, reappear in smoother, more palatable modern guise, gravely and neatly painted in neutral colors and placed within wide buffer-zones of slain ground. I could (just) overlook his quotations if they were confined to subject matter, but the references extend to stylistic devices that 1 'don't find at all amusing, such as pillows modelled with little old- til- till ffB-v''MaL A w11 11 jvftl bo Assistant Company Secretary OPPORTUNITY FOR CAPABLE YOUNG LAWYER Package in vicinity of $21,000 Composite Buyers the Food Distribution Centre owned and operated by Victoria's independent food retailers has an opportunity for a resourceful, enterprising, progressive business person who takes pride in professionalism.

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3000 Applicant's identity will not be disclosed nor any enquiry made without their permission. within quite strong architectural compositions. His strengths are the sensitive touch and tone of watercolors and prints and a piquancy of imagination that is best in small works. A workmanlike construction aids him in tackling big paintings, but he has not yet sufficient confidence to bring them off. They look a bit thin, wooden and second best.

THE MOST promising of John Olsen's works at Collector's, Armadale is a tall drawing in brown gouache and bright pastel of a 'Dashing River and Billabong', which has something of the rumbustiousness of his famous 'You Beaut Country paintings. It is a long time since Olsen exhibited paintings in Melbourne. For years now he has filled in with' slight drawings of frogs, birds and other fauna, of which there are several lithographs in this show handsomely printed by Fred Genis. Genis' skill as a printer shows to effect in Theo Kuijpers' confident lithographs also at Collector's. His printing picks up the nuances of Kuijpers" mixed technique using crayon, fine scraping, conte and washes of paint.

Other good exhibitions are Danish graphics at Melbourne University Gallery, Michael Shannon's drawings at Crossley Gallery, City a well-researched show of Len Annois' 1950s gouaches at a new gallery next door to the Crossley at 27 Niagara Lane and Mary Hammond's and Ailsa O'Connor's drawings of people at the Trades Hall Gallery, City masterish pools of brown glaze, and a few Cezannish diagonals introduced into the crisp folds of a white tablecloth. DON'T like Fraser Fair's work at Stuart Gerstman Galleries, Auburn but, as always, it forces recognition. His jagged calligraphy stops and starts without a sense of delimitation, as if it could take over the entire surface of his paintings with a crystalline crackle. His colors are unpleasant and energetic. Pale, opalescent nudes sprawl on vilely spotted pouffes amid exquisite velvet blacks and flashes of acidic greens and pinks.

The landscapes move miizzily between unfocused yellows and pinks, and mazy lines of drawing equally unanchored in space-As a whole," the exhibition looks like an unresolved battle between the flat picture plane and extreme, indeterminate space a battle which he possibly need not wage. The most constructive comparison I can think of is Gerhard Richter's latest blurry paintings which deny planarity altogether. TVTEIL MALONE, exhibiting at the Highlander Lane studios, City is 29, about the same age as Fair. They both studied at RM1T, and still bear the marks of that teaching. Malone's style is quasi-figurative, hieratically frontal, flat and linear, with angular drawing, thin paint, attention to borders and an even distribution of marks OPERA tralian Opera, Bass, the Elizabethan Theatre Trust, Victoria State Opera and the Victorian Friends of the Australian Opera-He said claims that severe problems had occurred in the allocation of seats were "highly He said complaints of inferior seating by regular subscribers were largely the result of the overwhelming demand for certain seriesj "Every effort will be made to improve seating where a serious anomaly Mr.

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