'Wonderful' thespian a real trouper

FILM director Paul Cox described her as a wonderful old trouper, and playwright Hannie Rayson said the Australian theatre had come of age and matured into a feisty dame alongside the woman who, in 2007, was feted for completing 50 years as a thespian.

Nude awakening

A nervous Louise Schwartzkoff becomes a life model for a day in the name of art.