Wanda Radford

Cartoonist, 1920s. Radford's subjects were social events like the David Jones' Ball.
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former actress and elocution artists from childhood, turned thertre designer cartoonist and illustrator, drew illustrations in Home c.1924-27, her subjects being social events like the David Jones’ Ball (1 June 1924, 58A) or people at a gymkhana (cover, 1 November 1924). The artist may be the Wanda Radford of South Australia something of a prodigy as child actress and reciter who left for a conservatoire in Germany under her father’ care in 1905 and was reported in the Adelaide observer__23 March 1907 as employed by the German Kaiser to give his children acting lessons. On 6 May actress Wanda had performed dramatic monologues at Steinway Hall, London. Wanda the actress was a daughter of the secretary of R Radford the A.B.C.Cafe in Pitt street Sydney.

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Staff Writer
Date written:
1996
Last updated:
2022

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  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)
  • Other occupation (Performance Artist)
  • Artist (Cartoonist / Illustrator)