Queensland Art Gallery Presscuttings Book 1 : Presscuttings, 1959-1962

"MIRROR" Sydniy, N.S.W. 5 L . The Gold Coast of Queensland is now a glorious memory, like a shining milestone just passed, and it has left such an impression that I'm already those good -bye -to -oil -that shores again counting the months till I can invade golden ... and I haven't yet unpackedl beginning of the 1958 This month sees AST SUNDAY week - and it memorie Season. My advice to seems like yes- those who intend to terday, overcast as it Mid-Century`" S y d n spend vacations there Is -stay at Lennon's Broad. beach Hotel and enjoy the silver beaches, tho sport and the lack of dogs and bode thereon and make whoopie at Surfer's i e if you HOTELUMINARY, James Watt, the general manager of Hotel chain, took a carload of customers on a "sum- mit" picnic . . . to Goo- moolahrn Lookout on the Great Dividing Range, and,. believe it or not, Ripley old chap. we barbecued our, still possess that mer- steaks Yn the rain with Paulo Stafford's BlI tai Bar and its neighbor, Fur Men Only, run by Paula's colorful husband, Beverly Stafford. whom I only re- member as u beachcomber and later a masseur and owner of a bath -house near the Pacific Ocean. A floor above Paula's I shop there is n gem of a' restaurant ... as pretty as; a picture . . where an; Indian curry (second ()illy' to that which is served 101 maharajahs. can be had., and n11 else besides. It lo' run by my pal. John' Bianchi 'late of Sydney and Melbourne), and is in - Vitiate and delightful. "Fiesta" is the name. nod John personally attends to everyone. lie tells me he rind his brother have bought a hotel at Cortina, Italy.; where the Winter Sp' .1 1 Olympics were held. He t will repair to his 'Wee land when the debt on his I new acquisition is paid off t Illinehrs flintily own the hotel Quirinale in Rome. A N It arri ring I. II o ti,oadbeaels pionee 1,pirit Ir dead! of of This exciting step for- ward, into an unexplored cultural world, was arrang- ed by Dr. George Berger in conjunction with tae Con- temporary Art Society of NSW, and the North Coast tour Was sponsored by the Department of Adult Edu- cation and the Univeeekley_fi ar:timritit owner! di. from the ofl New England:- Two Acrompanird Gawky, reed the Gold toast and christened the spot where he staked his Oath). .. Surfer's Paradise -an erstwhile ideal mane. dear old bey look 3eS daily dips till he was In 1925 Jim Cnvill botieln the site upon \cinch Sari - it's Paradise !loft] 1141W Stands . . lot' 1:40. rim to al moneis invested in inc original in:donation which ens gutted by lire in 1935. were £400! When Cavil' rebuilt', he added n Zoo and gardens and today, there- by hangs a Wei. In the latter months of '57. HIM an almiehty dicker. Stun - Icy Korman iChovron bought this famous hind - mark font of which, in 'XI. I couldn't get guickth enough) from the widow Cnvill for £350,000. Nevertheless, I wouldn't advise my worst enemy to invest: in the immedene neighborhood of Surfer's Paradise at presont. The place has been over -pro- moted, over - stibmii% idea. over re-clahned and over - Americanised. The folly e, calling every apartment houso, every road, eierj motel, every suburb, ham- bureei"Jernt. every le:de- in-the-wall by tin Ameri- can name or a Spanish - America]] tug, can't be exageerated. If the go-getters had but stopped to think what the Aboriginal names would have added to their bank- rales as tourist aftractionS they'd have given then Florldns, Miami's and E Moroccos away. I asked a young Ameri- can tourist I met this (week, why he had picked !Broadbeach Hotel as n place to stay and he said "I sew' the names in the 'travel pamphlets as I left last week in Hollywood, so I picked the neared an Australian-sounding pine that I could," Ho and I laughed nt the thole who have done this to the Am- newsnaper hats on to pro- c fxlintng-. rctsmg-Proflie heavenly old Dalmetlith trallan F' curial feeling. and Mrs. Gordon a tect us from the elements,. Mr Stitry arc to be thanked rattle affinity endeared Mr. Don't on any account In spite of the inclemen- far *vetting the exhibition W.. to met he showed me miss The Paradise Room-jcies, we had a heaven's' h, isii.r Beach. lair. Story the swimming pool sittneth a thing of beauty, attno- I day and I couldn't help 1 it teacher at Tweed ed to his apartments and spherically iota g I a a t 1 v e ' registering yet again Mri. Heads. a much travelled toad me the romance stir - and sumptuous -at the) Watt's generous gesture in 1 112 an timid an artist. His. "nding it. Surfer's Paradise Hotel. sacrificing his day of rest trite is PILO at the Kirra An elderly lady Heine in Dine and dance! Not event on my behalf. Beach Hotel, refilled dilapidation where nt Las Vegas or Acaptileol On the way down thehe pool now s t a nd s Among tho artists whose the it be beaten. The pro- mountain we stopped at a was conironted one morn - evictors of the pub have Iet Camlet-ette, Advancetown. work Is Gleason, Bellette, Haelliger. last November by the , it be known that the cost near Nerang, and met the ' gadrone of Sea-breeze with of buildino and equipplir: publicanPlate, Fluke. MeDonald. and the Patrons- a cheque in his hand for Millen, Coburn. Hessine I WW1 decor and nil that She was a typical and very iclever voting painter) mad if she would sell the word infers) tills lovely Queensiander who Levers. Olsen, Hinder, nu give him VP by the splendid restaurant wa., welcomed its. She carries next 'mulling. Her property 062,000. on tier trade In a bougain-. '-"'"' was only the width of an hire, Smith I"The Moment Capri is reflected in the viilin-htin,! house set in a' Christ Died" the 1958 Blake ordinary swimming pool! smart shops for men and garden which. in her spare Priv- winner I and Judy At dawn, the reniovnlints bachwear and lush stunt - only tune, she tends. The parlor was packed '" was a ' lo k thebull-dozers had erre nt work and at 8 women, purveyingCrsals It t greet thrill nier resort clothes. with locals, dairy farmers - - lor the locals to meet John el e and their families. The Eaminnei. the brilliant Sc-a um:nil excavating! Thirteen kids, a cat or two, a bound - clog vind n sprinkling of glamor were having a sing- song around a grand piano. It had Winifred Atwell's bent hollow! The "plan- st." with a bucket of "suds", beside him, was lathering' the keys and I've never leard n Demi r instrument. Doubtless. the tone was enhanced by the red-fneed, cheerful ivory-tickler who- mrdly hit a right note ... or was It the "planner"? We Joined in for while and ,It when we said farewell. hat we'd seen true happl- less . . . happiness un- alined by the horrors 01 he outside world. They wore nt peace . . . those folks ni Advancetown. wE Aussles sure are coming alone. Several of Its, In ny beautiful A v I mi, leave down to Knee Beach -Intel to see the first con- emporn ry art show ever o be exhibited in these till, . "St PP!, ' "An, Eshithtion. by Tim I ..heVell ANDRIA Waterford. Watertord is a 4 A Sydney business tycoon of at many interests who estate - /1 s lisped a finance company - a short time at,,t. at Surf - ring er's Paradise. He got the not virus and because he moves will, the agility of a hum- ming bird, he built his ex - S eel:eta apartment house in the twinkling of an eye and is still proceeding. I tumid this man as full of meat as a gong: Cosign- ating is -cause of his cont- ,ilex nature . . . combi- nation of blue-eyed simpli- city and astuteness. Jack. once a Redfern ragamuffin. I was my engaging host. He :ells me he had no educe- ,ion-let t, school when he gas 8 yours old and has battled from the word "go," in and out of big money ever since. But I'll bet my. last dollar he can read a contract hi Arabic! His opening gambit was "I hate Journalists. 'three times they've given me, etinkin' deals . . . mis-, r.presented my statements, mud done me and mine much harm." But I fixed him. In no time we were buddies and the 10 minutes i.e allotted me were spread over two, hours! And when I loll him, I kinda loved him, In 1938 on Cnvill Avenue where Waterford has his, concentrated interests, It which he 50I t. irontage bought with owned by Trav- el Agent. Bob Geraghty. bought for £1000. Bob' quickly sold it for .C3000, Sand danced a Jig, It was next sold for 7 -grand and later for eleven! Then a e y syndicate bought it feral; 000 and last year a Mel- . Lynn pail £19,000 for it. Eight months passed and J.J got It for £30,000 and "the deeds aren't. all hack pertaining to seve- ral of the deals and yet I've been offered £47,000 and wouldn't take It as list's evsband who .ac. clays later. the pool was companied us. finished. ready for the So great was the success Christmas rush. You see, of the Show. especially Property on Cavil' Avenue with the 300 ehttorn who is £6801 a loot . . . dearer saw It, that Mr. Snit Is limn it is in Pitt St. Al - already negotieting for a ready the lid) Mr. Water - second. For this purpo-c, lord has refused £185,000 lot his installation and Ito hr travellacl to Brisbane last Wednesday. to confer. is about to plough in an - with 111:- Director of the other hundred thousand Queensland National Art and the man only installed pallerc.-ME-Robert Haines. himself for keeps on the And while I'm al it. Gold Coast ten months ago I'll fell )ou something -Surfers Paradise offer else. Laborers. [minims, everything AND the sun.' carraters. plumbers and is how he describes the nil thane engaged in nincl-mirticio, camcdruction work in the ND while I'm still pouring rain up here yakking about They in be a !militia Cnvill Avenue, I hit summer and healthier want to talk about than liar fellers (Ionia south. I'm flabbergasted: Gavin. the Grand Olc HERE are nfew Stan of Surfer :s Paradise figures given the alto passed away at tilt by the ProPriotor sole of 00 in 1952. He tea: n Victorian -from Ocelon of Sea -breeze Apart- boxer, a enamel° mews, as sw Miming pool, swimmer amid diver, and hi dame hall and root res- travelled the world wit bun ant now under nddi- the Cason troupe of Divers liana] .itct ruction, Jnck J., Ile It was who diatom - 35 DAILY MIRROR, THURSDAY, AUGUST 14, 1958 3S Two paintings worth several thousand pounds will be shows for the first time at the konsland Nothing: Art Gallen, from nest Wednesday. They are Sir Augustus John's Portrait of a Girl, and Cornish landscape by, Sir Matthew Smith. More than 201100 people have seen the Hiroshima art panels at the Gallery 'In the last three weeks. Gallery director, Mr. Robert Haines, said yester- day that the panels would leave the gallery, to -night for Newcastle. To be closed The gallery would be closed for a week for re - pointing and re -arranging of exhibits. "The gallery, will re -open nn August 28, with an ex- hibit of interiors past and present, arranged by the National Gallery Society," Mr. Reines said,