cartoonist, did comic drawings for the Adelaide Gadfly (1906-9), eg A Truthful Child (n.d.) – 'The Lovely Gentleman: “So, little Egbert, you have been to the Zoo, eh? Now, what is the strangest thing you have seen to-day?”/ Little Egbert (promptly): “You, sir”’ (ill. Lindesay, WWW , 69). A Monopolist , On The Job and His Preference , all 1907, are about working-class society (ill. Lindesay 1979, 134-35, 149). He also did a series about famous people’s origins titled Small Beginnings, eg – no. 9 [re well known Temperance leader]/ 'TEACHER: “Good Gracious! Henry Gainsford! Your first day at this school, and you’re letting all the water run away! Whatever for?”/ THE ASTOUNDED HENRY: “Water, miss! Water! Why, the other little boys told me it was a tank of beer!” 25 April 1906, 3. For 'The Bookfellow’s Decorative Drawing Competition – Headpieces and Tailpieces’, Plass entered a repeat female head with poppies and a repeat girl patting a kookaburra (both ill. Bookfellow 18 April 1907, 8), but was 'disqualified’.
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- Writers:
- Kerr, Joan
- Date written:
- 1996
- Last updated:
- 2007
