Gryphon 1962 - Adm.monash.edu.au

A COMPLETELY BIASED, PREJUDICED AND COLOURED REPORTON THE REVUE OMITTING ALL IMPORTANT FACTS,MUCH OF IT BEING MADE UPEarly March saw the formation of a Re vueCommittee and Geoff Richards running all overMelbourne in search of som eone worthy enoughto produce the Cautec Revue. He eventuallyturned up with a solid little man with becomingeyes and a red jumper.A meeting of script writers was hastily calledand many ex cellent ideas were brought forward(including Harry H elmer's now famous theory onthe use of Greek myths in Revues). These wereduly assessed , recorded, tabulated and thrown out.As a result of this ins piri ng meeting a great nurnberof excruciatingly funny and clever. satiricalscripts were painstakingly written and rewrittenand handed to the guy in the red jumper. (H eappears in Melbourne's Social Register as MauriceLurie . , . people have been kn own to actuallyrefer to him by that name.) As was th e custom,the scripts were thrown alit. Quite unabashed, thegallant script writers got off to work and cam eup with scripts that were brilliantly witty andeven funnier than the first lot. These were alsothrown out. In desperation Maurice wrote somescripts of his own . None of these were thrown out. . . on ly changed drastically every week . (Yes!Like the time-table.) But at the same time, however,everybody was won over to the producerthrough his brilliant scripts and his warped sens eof humour.We sett led down to Rehearsals and R oss Phillipsand Brian Kimpton went ou t and bought dozensof p roperties. ja rs of paint. etc., for which RayBeebe reluctantly handed out the mon ey.Rehearsals were somewhat d epressing as Mauricecould only tell us (h is vocabulary was ratherlimited) th at everything was "lousy" . .. "includingthat guy over there," (guy: neutral gender.)These words of constructive criticism so frequentlyuttered would be interpreted differently by Geoffand Bob Lukies. It was most confusing.Then it was decided to make a film. Oh,Brother! the film . Several people wrote scripts andpresented ideas. Inevitably these were thrown out.However, on Anzac Day the cast, adorn ed withtogas , daggers and machine guns, assembled on thesteps of the Caulfield Town Hall and Mauriceexhibi ted his talent for spontaneous creation andinvented a p lot on location. Nobody ever foundout what the film was about. but everybodythought it was hilarious with the exception ofBob Easson and Co. Bob and his sound engineersdeveloped some quite n ovel complexes whilstspending seven hours dubbing the so und track.By this time some extremely alert students inthe College were asking, "What's this we hearab out a Revue?" Meanwhile, back at the gym ,Maurice was telling us, " L've got about twentyscripts; we need forty altogether, so I want an-16