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GEORGE MUNRO
(1902 - 1968)Nationality: Scottish
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George Munro (1 May 1902 - 14 April, 1968), journalist and Dramatist, started his career as a Drama critic in Fleet Street, London, with the Allied Newspaper Group. He was also chief crime reporter and sports columnist. In 1939 he was commissioned in the R.N.V.R and served in Burma and IndiA. Third eldest of 11 children, Munro was born in Govan. After retiring to Saltcoats, Ayrshire, Scotland he continued to write plays, as well as regular columns "Among the Sassenachs" for the Daily Herald. As a penniless young man, Munro walked from Glasgow to London determined to become a reporter. By the time he retired, he was a much respected journalist at the top of his profession, His first typewriter was a gift from John Buchan. Siblings Hugh (author), Alan (author), Sally and Jean Munro (columnists) were all bitten by the writing bug. the Munro matriarch, Margaret Robinson Munro learned to type at age 85. Her columns, "the Glasgow I Knew", appeared regularly in the Glasgow Evening News until her death at 91.
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Gay Landscape Gold in his Boots Mark But This Flea Murder Gang Tintock Cup, The Vineyard StreetGay Landscape
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Sat. Feb 22, 1958 Daily Record: "Glasgow's Citizens' theatre company is to take place in a unique TV experiment. their new play, "Gay Landscape", opening Monday, is to be trotted up to the theatre Royal lock, stock and barrel, AND RELAYED IN FULL ON TELEVISION!" the article goes one to ask about the experiment: " Will it affect the box office when it knows that the play is going to be television?
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Directed by: Peter Duguld,
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Top of PageGold in his Boots
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the story of the journey of a brilliant west of Scotland footballer. High Drama about crooked football, inflamed religious passions, romance, murder.
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First play in the Clydebuilt series: 7:84 Theatre Company's season of working class plays from the first half of the twentieth century, at the Mitchell Theatre, Glasgow (9-20/2). The company then commenced on a tour beginning in Paisley (22/2); Ayr (23/2); Easterhouse (24/2) and ending in Cumbernauld (27/2)
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Mitchell Theatre, Granville St., Glasgow
21 Apr 1947
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7:84 Theatre Company
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Male: 8 Female: 3 Other: -
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National Library of Scotland ref: John McGrath - Acc.11615/42 (1947)
Top of PageMark But This Flea
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"An honest, bitterly direct, and uncompromising exposure of hypocrisy and bigotry" - Glasgow Herald, May 10, 1971
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Also: Dundee Repertory Company At the Dundee Repertory theatre: 22 May. 1971 Director: Graham Barlow
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Posthumously: Glasgow University
1970
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Top of PageMurder Gang
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Later filmed As "Sensation"
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London's West End
circa 1938
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Top of PageTintock Cup, The
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GEORGE MUNRO (co-author) -. the Daily Record: "a particularly successful pantomime," - 1950
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Top of PageVineyard Street
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Produced by John Casson. Starring Jane Aird, Duncan Macrae, Edith Ruddick, Douglas Canpbell, Ethel Glendinning, James Gibson, Gudrun Ure, Stanley Baxter, John Young, Audrey.
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Glasgow Citizens' Theatre At The Royal Princess's Theatre.
10 Oct 1949
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Male: 4 Female: 5 Other: -
Further Reference:
National Library of Scotland ref: Citizens' Theatre - Acc.4933/10
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