Ida Elizabeth Osbourne

Ida Elizabeth Osbourne (born 1916) was an actor and broadcaster born in Brighton, Victoria, the only daughter of Mr and Mrs W. L. Osbourne and educated at Firbank Grammar School.
Career
As a young girl, she studied elocution with Ruth Conabere, sister of Sydney Conabere, making successful entries in "South Street Competitions" at Ballarat, Victoria from 1929 to 1935. It was at the 1934 Melbourne Elocutionary Championships she was spotted by ABC drama producer Frank Clewlow, who was acting adjudicator, and invited to act in radio plays.
Her first major part was as Juliet opposite Harry Traynor's Romeo. Over the next two years she played most of Shakespeare's younger women. In 1938 she started at 3LO hosting the Victorian Children's Program as "Elizabeth".
In 1939, ABC General Manager Charles Moses decided to amalgamate all children's programs, emanating from Sydney. Frank Clewlow, by now in Sydney himself, made sure she was appointed to head it. At...