Queenie Paul

Queenie Paul - 1911

Eveline Pauline "Queenie" Paul (born December 30, 1893 in Sydney , † July 31, 1982 there ) was an Australian actress , singer and dancer .

Life

Paul attended St Patrick's Girls' School and took singing and dancing lessons from Grace Miller, wife of Hugh J. Ward. At the age of fifteen she became a chorister in the acting company of James Cassius Williamson . In 1915 she appeared in Mother Goose , in 1916 in the pantomime The Bunyip on the side of Roy Rene and Nat Phillips ( Stiffy and Mo ). For a short time she appeared at Jack Asprey's Cremorne Theater in Brisbane with the American vaudeville actor Mike Connors , who was with a cast of Ben Fullerhad worked. They married in 1917 and returned to Fuller, whom they worked for until 1930.

Both lost their jobs at Fuller during the economic depression of 1930. They rented the Haymarket Theater in Sydney and successfully opened it in 1931 with the revue Brighter Days . Her main characters included Hector St Clair, Roy Rene and Jim Gérald . A short time later they took over the Tivoli in Melbourne and founded Connors and Paul Theaters Pty Ltd, with its operator George Dickenson . In Sydney they took over the Grand Opera House from George Marlow , which they renovated and reopened in 1932 with a show with Roy Rene and Syd Beck.

After the death of a daughter, they transferred the theater company George Dickenson and Frank Neil .

For the next few years they worked with Roy Rene. In 1935 they undertook a New Zealand tour with a revue with George Stevenson Wallace , a second tour with Syd Beck failed because of his alcohol consumption.

In 1946 Paul and Connors signed a contract with Harry Wren, and Paul produced The Tommy Trinder Show in Brisbaine and Adelaide for the show. After Connor's death in 1949, she and Martin Goode took over the Australian Picture Palace , which she had Walter Burley Griffin and C. Bruce Dellit modernize and reopened as Tatler . The Tatler shows, in which u. a. Hal Lennon and Val Jellay performed were not a success. Paul then became the producer of Joe Taylor's Celebrity Club where she discovered Dawn Lake, and in 1953 accepted an offer from the Runme and Run Run Shaw brothers for revues in their Singapore hotels, clubs and cinemas.

In 1953 she brought Harry Wren back to Australia for the revue Thanks for the Memory , in which she appeared with George Stevenson Wallace and Jim Gerald. Two more nostalgic revues followed under the direction of Wren, which were very successful: The Good Old Days (George Wallace, Jim Gerald, Maurice Colleano and Jenny Howard, 1956) and Many Happy Returns (with Gladys Moncrieff, Jim Gerald, Jenny Howard and George Wallace Jr., 1959).

In the 1960s, Paul turned to television. She appeared on Graham Kennedy's In Melbourne Tonight , The Don Lane Show and The Mike Walsh Show , and had a role on the series Dave's Place in 1965 . In 1978 she was portrayed on the program This Is Your Life . In 1982 she was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia . She last performed at the Newtown Leagues Club on July 29, 1982, two days before her death.

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personal data
SURNAME	Paul, Queenie
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Paul, Eveline Pauline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Australian actress, singer and dancer
DATE OF BIRTH	December 30, 1893
PLACE OF BIRTH	Sydney
DATE OF DEATH	July 31, 1982
Place of death	Sydney