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Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1881

7 stories in Clarence Valley & Coffs Harbour's papers

Theatre Royal, Grafton

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 18 April 1881 · page 2

EXAMPLES of patriotism are legitimate subjects for the stage. In a book they may lie concealed but to the learned and the curious ; to that part of mankind on whom their effect is most to be…

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Theatre Royal Grafton

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 6 May 1881 · page 2

WE have rarely witnesses such enthusiasm in a Theatre as the spectators exhibited on Monday evening last when the New Zealand Star Dramatic Company presented Bulwer Lytton's beautiful play "The Lady of Lyons."…

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Theatre Royal, Grafton

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Monday 9 May 1881 · page 3

THAT the people of Grafton can appreciate talent has been clearly shown by the large attendance nightly to witness the histronic presentations made by the New Zealand Dramatic…

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Theatre Royal Grafton

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 13 May 1881 · page 2

THE New Zealand Star Dramatic Company succeeded in scoring another success in their presentation of the popular sensational drama " The Colleen Bawn," on Monday night, and…

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Professor Haselmayer at the Theatre Royal

The Grafton Argus and Clarence River General Advertiser · Friday 9 September 1881 · page 2

RATIONAL amusement is not only a been to all classes of the people by filling up the leisure time and preventing the mischievous work which, it is said, that a certain personage always prepares for idlers, but it is a…

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Grafton Musical Union Concert

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Saturday 17 December 1881 · page 2

THE first concert by members of this Union, was given in the Theatre Royal, on Wodnesday even and drew a large and fashionable audience, which crowded the dress circle, and many of the holders…

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Grafton Musical Union Concert. to the Editor of the Clarence Examiner

Clarence and Richmond Examiner and New England Advertiser · Tuesday 20 December 1881 · page 2

SIR,—In your report of the above concert you state, "the stage was tastefully decorated with flowers, evergreens, and pot plants, lent by members of the Union," &c. Allow me to state that I decorated the…

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