P.E. Strzelecki mal. W. Skonieczny |
Amazing stuff, a radio feature "Strzelecki" written by Noskowski! Who was the author? Wladyslaw (Ladislas) de Noskowski, journalist, editor, music critic, arrived in Australia in 1911. Between 1933 and 1945 he was honorary consul-general of the Republic of Poland in Australia, New Zealand and Western Samoa. In 1940 he organized centenary celebrations on Mt Kosciuszko and unveiled the Strzelecki memorial plaque there. It is not known when he wrote the drama. All we know is that the text was given to Waclaw Słabczyński "for unlimited use" and inherited by Słabczyński's son, Tadeusz who, in turn, passed it on to Witold Lukasiak. The drama with foot notes provided by W. Łukasiak was published by dr Zdzisław Derwiński/MAPA in "Rocznik Muzeum i Archiwum Polonii Australijskiej" in 2015.
Please find the drama reprinted now in Puls Polonii as we are preparing for the 180th anniversary of Mt Kosciuszko naming in March 2020. Any ideas how to make the radio drama more popular amongst English speaking persons? Feel free to send the link to your Australian friends.
STRZELECKI radio drama by Noskowski - no footnotes
STRZELECKI radio drama by Noskowski - full version with footnotes
Czytaj: Tajemnicza historia tablic na Górze Kościuszki - A. Kozek
Read the story of Kosciuszko Plaque on Mt Kosciuszko - F. Molski
It appears the drama was written in 1933 r. Find more details here
Magda Sobolska, lat 17. Aborygen Tarra ze Strzeleckim. Praca konkursowa z 2009 r. |
MORE ABOUT THE AUTHORLadislas Adam de Noskowski (1892-1969), journalist, editor, music critic, teacher, educator. He attended Chrzanowski's private high school in Warsaw, continued his education in Switzerland and later studied at the University of Warsaw and [I]Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques[/I] in Paris. He arrived in Sydney on 24 April 1911 and was naturalized on 4 May 1914.
The same year he travelled to California where in Hollywood he played in few movies, among them Macbeth (1916). In that year Ignacy Paderewski employed him as a secretary to work for the Polish National Committee. Noskowski was also secretary of the newspaper Free Poland, sponsored by the Polish National Alliance.
In February 1918 he returned to Sydney and married on 4 March Beatrice Barnett (d.1960). Until 1919 he was a translator and interpreter for the Australian Military Forces. He taught French, history and geography in various high schools in Sydney (1920-26).
From 1919 he had been music critic for the Sydney Mail and wrote for the Sydney Morning Herald, Evening News, Art in Australia, Home, Shakespearean Quarterly and Musical Australia. He also worked as a critic and an editor of Australasian Phonograph Monthly (1925-29). During 1927-33 he contributed columns on music to Sydney Morning Herald. It was during 1929-31 that he published his own monthly Australian Phonograph News. He also contributed to Chicago based Musical Leader.
Between 1933 and 1945 he was honorary consul-general of the Republic of Poland in Australia, New Zealand and Western Samoa. Noskowski co-operated with A. E. Dalwood to establish the Polish-Australian Chamber of Commerce. Together they visited Poland in 1935 and attended Marshall Josef Pilsudski's funeral. During the World War II he organized the Polish Relief Fund, which raised Ł30,000. He also encouraged the Australian government to grant Ł10,000 to the Polish Red Cross.
In 1942-45 he edited the monthly Polish and Central European Review. After the war he initiated musical programmes for the Australian Broadcasting Commission's radio and later became an examiner in French. In 1959 he prepared two text-books for senior high school French classes. In 1966 he began to write a 'History of opera in Australia' but unfortunately, the nearly completed draft disappeared in unknown circumstances.
Noskowski died on 29 July 1969 after being struck by a car. L.K. Paszkowski, Noskowski, Ladilsaw Adam de (1892-1969), Australian Dictionary of Biography, Vol. 11, (MUP), 1988; Władysław Noskowski, Dziennik z pierwszych tygodni w Australli. Rok 1911, Edited by Bogumila Żongołowicz, Polsko-Australijskie Towarzystwo Kulturalne w Australii Zachodniej, Perth 2011.
Sebastian Sawicki "Adyna", praca konkursowa z 2009 r. |
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