Local and General Dance and EUCHRE
Last Saturday night in the Oddiel [?] Hall the second of the series of dances was held by the Domestic Staff of the Hospital…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1940
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Teachers Dance at Happy Gathering in Warm Weather
THE weather certainly played its part in providing a warm Welcome for new teachers at the dance arranged last Thursday night by the Barrier Teachers' Confederation.However, the new president and social secretary Messrs. A.Doust and K. A…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Concessions for A.b.c. Concerts
Concessions for admission to concerts to be given in Broken Hill during the year by visiting celebrity artists under contract to the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Subscribers' Concerts by Citizens' Band Easter Tour Abandoned
A DRIVE for honorary members was inaugurated by the committee of the Barrier Citizens' Band at its monthly meeting this week. As…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Leap Year Dance at Silverton
The Silverton Tennis,Club held a Leap Year Ball on Saturday night in the Institute Hall. There was a large attendance, including a good…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →War News in Overseas Pictures
INDIAN TROOPS at the camp near the Pyramids in Egypt. In this picture the men are marching smartly to an inspection…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Irish National Concert
The Irish National Concert to he held in the Crystal Theatre on next Monday "night will" provide excellent entertainment to its patrons. The…
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The announcement by the Australian Broadcasting Commission that they will be sending to Broken Hill this year some of the celebrity artists to…
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Stating that defendant had been fined in November for a similar offence, Mr. A. B. Collins, S.M., today fined Maxwell Johnson 20/- with 8/…
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GUEST artist at thc Irish National Concert, which was held at the Crystal Theatre last night, was Miss Thelma Commane, who judged the…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Citizens' Band at Hillside
The Barrier Citizens' Band rendered a bright programme of popular numbers at the Hillside Reserve on Sunday night. There was a good attendance…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →St Patrick's Day Dance
As last Sunday was St. Patrick's Day the Convent held a dance on the Saturday night in St. John's Hall The buckjump show looked at first…
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The Hospital Board at its meeting on Thursday night granted the local Police Association permission to conduct its annual ball in aid of X-ray…
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MELBOURNE, Thursday.— Harry Bloom, popular dance band leader of the Australian Broadcasting Commission, died in a Melbourne private hospital…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →News In Pictures From Abroad
THE NEW SOUTH WALES Labor Party's "Hands-Off Russi'a" policy…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Harold Williams Barilone, Meets With Success In Concert At Town Hall
FIRST of the concerts to be presented by the Australian Broadcasting Commission in Broken Hill for 1940, the recital by Harold Williams, baritone, in the Town Hall last night was an outstanding success. The audience, which almost filled the hall, was…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Amusements Johnson's Pictures
Epic screen entertainment, crystallised in a great story of the Sea, the story of the triumph of steam over sail, will he offered at Johnson's…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Celebrity Concert Attracts
THE Town Hall was the scene of much activity on Thursday night for the A.B.C. Celebrity Concert with artists Harold Williams…
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"Mutiny on the Blackhawk," featuring Richard Arlen, Constance Moore, Andy Devine and Noah Beery, and "Reno," with Richard Dix, Gail…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Quartette Club Concert
Members of the Broken Hill Quartette Club, under thc baton of Mr. A. Beven, will present their first concert of the 1940 season in the Town Hail…
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