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Broken Hill & the Far West · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1891

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Monday 5 January 1891 · page 3

ANOTHER Irish drama was presented by the Taylor-Carringon Company at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening. It was designated "Ould Ireland," and…

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Theatre Royal. "Rip Van Winkle."

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 6 January 1891 · page 2

WASHINGTON IRVING'S delightful legend of the Catskill Mountains, where Rip Van Winkle indulged in his prolonged sleep of 20 years, was presented at the Theatre…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Friday 9 January 1891 · page 2

THE Taylor-Carrington Company concluded their season here last night, when they very generously played "Erin-goBragh" for the benefit of the local…

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Theatre Royal. "Strack Oil."

Barrier Miner · Monday 12 January 1891 · page 2

AT this theatre on Saturday night Stacey's Comedy Company opened in "Struck Oil" to a large and enthusiastic audience, by whom the performance was…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 15 January 1891 · page 2

A VERY thin house greeted the second production of "My Sweetheart" at this theatre last night, but the acting and singing of the principals was just as good…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Friday 16 January 1891 · page 2

A FAIRLY numerous audience witnessed the performance of "Hans the Boatman" at the Theatre Royal last night, and each incident in that tragic lore story—the…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Saturday 17 January 1891 · page 2

MR E. A. STACEY'S company completed a very successful entertainment at this theatre last night, when Hans the Boatman was repeated. Owing…

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Theatre Royal. "Little Lord Fauntleroy."

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 28 January 1891 · page 2

THIS drams has been played to good houses at the Theatre Royal for the last two nights by the St. Maur Company with great success. The writer had the…

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Theatre Royal. "Brighton."

Barrier Miner · Thursday 29 January 1891 · page 2

THE production of so amusing a comedy as "Brighton" for the first tims in Broken Hill might have been expected to draw a much bigger audience than…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Saturday 31 January 1891 · page 4

THAT drollest of comic plays "Brighton" kept a crowded house in intermittent bursts of applausive laughter at the theatre last night. Never has the company as a…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Monday 2 February 1891 · page 2

THERE was a good house at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night to witness the first production of "The Arabian Nights," though the front seats were not so well…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 3 February 1891 · page 2

THE St. Maur Company made a new departure last night, when "Queen's Evidence," one of those sensational dramas in which villainy is vanquished and virtue…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 4 February 1891 · page 2

THE St. Maur Company concluded a brilliant and successful season at this theatre lastnight, when a large audience assembled to bid them farewell. The piece presented…

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The Druids' Concert

Barrier Miner · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 2

THE Druids must be very popular in Broken Hill, judging by the large audience that assembled at their concert in aid of the banner fund at the…

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Theatre Royal. "The Silver King."

Barrier Miner · Monday 23 February 1891 · page 2

THE production of a drama with so appropriate a title as "The Silver King" did not fail to attract a large audience to the Theatre Royal on Saturday night. It…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Tuesday 24 February 1891 · page 2

"THE SILVER KING" was repeated last night by Mr. Ireland and his clever company to a packed house, and received with every manifestation of favor. Mr…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Thursday 5 March 1891 · page 2

THE dramatic company at present playing so successfully at the Theatre Royal, played "The Lights of a Great Cicy," for the fourth time last night to another…

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Theatre Royal

Barrier Miner · Friday 6 March 1891 · page 2

MR. G. R. IRELAND and his clever dramatic company gave their final performance during the present season at this theatre last night, when a mixed bill,…

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Panic in a Theatre. Broken Hill Outdone in Duststorms. An Alarm of Fire and a Stampede. Several People Injured. [By Telegraph.] From Our Own Correspondent. MELBOURNE

Barrier Miner · Monday 9 March 1891 · page 3

A remarkable panic occurred in the Sandhurst Theatre on Saturday night. A terrible doststorm swept over the city, and the dust penetrated the theatre in…

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The Hibernian Ball

Barrier Miner · Wednesday 18 March 1891 · page 2

ST. PATRICK'S Day was appropriately wound up by a ball at the Skating Rink last night, at which there was one of the largest attandances ever seen in Broken…

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