Hoyts Ivanhoe Theatre 226 Upper Heidelberg Road, Ivanhoe, VIC – 1943

1943 & Hoyts Ivanhoe Theatre is screening “Harvest Melody”. This was an American musical directed by Sam Newfield and written by Allan Gale. The film starred Rosemary Lane, Johnny Down.

http://www.cinemarecord.org.au/CR_CONT/crec1-50.html

1931

Residents of the main upstairs flat were Manager Tom Kerr and his family ( thr first occupants)

MISS JOAN NITA ( KERR OF IVANHOE )

VIOLET MURIEL MCINNES ( NEE MUSGRAVE ) 1938

In 1916 Violet Musgrave, a talented student at the National Gallery School in Melbourne, married the ambitious young artists, W B McInnes.
Despite having six children, she continued to paint for many years, exhibiting mainly paintings of flowers and related subjects.
W B McInnes became especially well-known for exhibiting (and winning)the Archibald Prize. Violet also entered a number of portraits in the Archibald, incuding in 1938, the year the prize was first given to a woman, Nora Heysen.
After her husband’s health began to fail she ceased to exhibit.

https://www.daao.org.au/bio/violet-m-mcinnes/biography/

1942

Neither Violet McInnes nor her ‘Parma Violets’ are shrinking violets. Instead, an emblem of its creator, this work speaks to the still flowering legacy of Modern women artists in Australia.

Born in 1892, Violet McInnes (née Musgrave) studied painting at the prestigious National Gallery School. Here, she honed her aptitude for still-life painting, later earning esteem for her exquisite floral portraits. While women artists throughout this era were relegated to “mere” flower painters by critics, artists like McInnes used this to their advantage. She mastered the craft, recognising the diverse audience who could both relate to and afford her modestly sized, universally appealing floral subjects.

There is a poetic likeness between McInnes and her Parma Violets. This breed, originating in the 16th century in Italy was once believed to be sterile. Proved to be false, it was later found that under right conditions any sturdy violet could thrive. Perhaps, this is more than a lesson in botanics. Like her namesake, Violet McInnes may have been mistaken as fragile, or a lesser artist than her male counterparts. However, beneath her delicate brush strokes lay the talent and tenacity that made this mother-of-six such a successful artist.

‘Parma Violet’ was exhibited at The Sedon Galleries in 1942 and is still in its original Thallon frame. In 2019, McInnes was included in the National Gallery of Victoria’s survey of Modern Australian Women artists and remains a vital addition to the canon of Modern Australian artists.

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Mme Elink Schuurman – Nora Heysen

Archibald Prize 1938

Entries: 145 works
Exhibition dates: 21 January to 20 February 1939
All entries were exhibited; no limit to number of works each artist could submit

Nora Heysen became the first woman to be awarded the Archibald Prize and, at 28, the youngest artist as well. Her win provoked more press comment than any previous award, with some calling for a government inquiry into the judging of the prize. Part of the reason was, again, due to the appropriateness of the sitter; in this case, Madame Elink Schuurman, wife of the consul-general for the Netherlands.

https://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/prizes/archibald/1938/

1939 – R.G.MENZIES – SEPTEMBER 3 1939

W.B (William Beckwith) McInnes

MAY 18 1895 – NOVEMBER 9 1939

W.B McInnes was an important artist who was born in St. Kilda on the 18th May 1889. His parents were Malcolm McInnes and Alice Agnes Beckwith. Because he was a sickly child with a congenital heart condition he was encouraged to learn art. He attended the National Gallery School of Fine Art where he studied drawing under Frederick McCubbin and later painting under Bernard Hall.

In 1912 he traveled to Europe where he spent over two years painting

landscapes.During 1916 he succeeded Frederick McCubbin as drawing master of the gallery school and then became temporary director of the art gallery after the death of Bernard Hall in 1935.

McInnes won the Wynne prize in 1918, the Archibald prize seven times (in succession 1921-24) and exhibited at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, in 1928

Portraits of well-known Australians occupied most of his life but he also loved to paint landscapes, particularly in the area around Alphington (Lucerne), where he moved after marrying Violet Muriel Musgrave in February 1915.

The area in which he lived is now part of the LaTrobe Golf links.

He died in East Melbourne on 9th November 1939.

FLYING OFFICER/FLIGHT LIEUTENANT MALCOLM MUSGRAVE MCINNES

JULY 16 1918- DECEMBER 18 1939

https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/92451182

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MALCOLM MUSGRAVE MCINNES WB MCINNES

A verdict of accidental death through the crashing of the plane of which they were the crew, but as to what caused the accident the evidence adduced did not enable him to say, was recorded by the Hawkesbury District Coroner (Mr HS Johnson, JP) at the Windsor Court House on Thursday of last week, after hearing lengthy evidence as to the circumstances, surrounding the tragic death of five members of the RAAF in the early hours of the morning of December 18, when an Avro Anson bomber crashed on the Richmond Golf Links a few minutes after taking off from the Richmond Air Station on a navigational flight to Point Cook.

https://www.ozatwar.com/ozcrashes/nsw48.htm

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1941 -JOHN CURTIN – DECEMBER 8 1941

Curtin’s call to the nation

By John Edwards

In the darkest days of war Curtin was sometimes seen travelling alone by tram from his room at the Victoria Coffee Palace Hotel in Little Collins Street to the war cabinet offices in Victoria Barracks on St Kilda Road. Appointed to the job without a Labor majority in the house or the Senate, Curtin was not expected to last long as prime minister. He was Australia’s third prime minister in less than two months. Defying his critics, he skilfully managed through nearly two years of minority government before a general election gave him a decisive majority.

THE AUSTRALIAN May 21 2021

The Battle of Sunda Strait was a naval battle which occurred during World War II in the Sunda Strait between the islands of Java, and Sumatra. On the night of 28 February – 1 March 1942, the Australian light cruiser HMAS Perth and the American heavy cruiser USS Houston faced a major Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN) task force. After a fierce battle lasting several hours, both Allied ships were sunk. Five Japanese ships were sunk, three of them by friendly fire.