Neath Southern Stars was a 1938 Australian historical pageant written by Edmund Barclay. Commissioned by the Department of Education for the Sesquicentenary of European settlement of Australia, it was performed by a thousand secondary school students at Sydney Town Hall in March 1938.
The pageant was divided into two parts - Australia before European settlement, and a parade of famous Australians "Makers of a Nation". There were nine episodes.
References
- Marion Consandine, 'Barclay, Edmund Piers (Teddy) (1898–1961)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, National Centre of Biography, Australian National University, https://adb.anu.edu.au/biography/barclay-edmund-piers-teddy-9425/text16569, published first in hardcopy 1993, accessed online 25 August 2023.
- "" NEATH SOUTHERN SKIES"". The Sydney Morning Herald. No. 31, 270. New South Wales, Australia. 23 March 1938. p. 24. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.
- New South Wales. Department of Education. (April 4, 1938), "MAKERS OF A NATION.", The school magazine of literature for our boys and girls, 23 (3 Part 4 Class 6), Sydney: The Dept, nla.obj-827031796, retrieved 25 August 2023 – via Trove
- "SECONDARY SCHOOLS' PAGEANT". The Labor Daily. No. 4461. New South Wales, Australia. 23 March 1938. p. 4. Retrieved 25 August 2023 – via National Library of Australia.