Thursday, March 03, 2022

scurr's scroll etc


Sydney Morning Herald 14 December 1954 p. 9. When did you last see a ballpoint pen being advertised anywhere. Hilda Scurr also advertised Horlicks, can you still get Horlicks? I had it occasionally in the early part of this century and it was not a bad concoction. 

I don't know how old Hilda Scurr was. She came to Australia (presumably from the UK) in 1928, she must have been an adult then but surely not very old. Anyway she was still young enough to be called 'young' on the front of a magazine in 1941. 

The internet is such an exotic and exciting place, for instance when you come across this kind of dumbass bullshit from someone who has clearly never tried to search on anyone before. This is a comment from a post on HS on a facebook group with the gripping name 'Old Australian Character Actors That Have Passed Unnoticed.' 



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