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Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond) · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1939

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Little Miss Broadway"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 8

Surrounded by singing, dancing, romancing and fun-making show people shirley Temple gives you the time of your life in new 20th Century-Fox hit. She always…

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Enjoyable Effort Riverstone School Concert at Annual Prizegiving

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 6 January 1939 · page 3

FOR some years past the pupils of the Riverstone Public School have annually, in conjunction with their presentation of prizes, staged a concert that has always…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Three Comrades'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 13 January 1939 · page 10

Robert Taylor literally "took it on the chin" during the filming of. 'Three Comrades,' screen version of the widely-read Erich Maria Remarque novel, which comes to the…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Romance for Three'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 20 January 1939 · page 14

"Because of Emily Post there will probably be more material for leading men in motion pictures," says well-known film star, Robert Young, who takes the leading role…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "The Awful Truth"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 10

Columbia's romantic-comedy, "The Awful Truth," starring Irene Dunne and Cary Grant, with Ralph Bellamy, Alexander D'Arcy, Cecil Cunningham and Robert…

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Show Council Effort for Extra Finance Holding of Ball Decided Councillor's Resignation

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 27 January 1939 · page 5

CLAIMING that it would be necessary to raise additional funds from some source other than the show, the council of the Hawkesbury District…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "The Sisters"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 February 1939 · page 4

Fifty years had elapsed since we had last seen Bette Davis. Then she was Julie, the glamorous vixen of "Jezebel." Now she was the equally glamorous Louise of Warner…

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Royal Theatre Windsor "Hold That Kiss"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 February 1939 · page 12

Maureen O'Sullivan, with Dennis O'Keefe, Hollywood's newest romantic leading man, and Mickey Rooney a boy clarinet virtuoso, form the comedy trio introduced…

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Windsor Band Drive for More Funds Wrong Impression Corrected

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 12

FACED with an overdraft of over £70 and very little money in hand, members of the Windsor Town and District Band did not altogether review a very…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "A Yank at Oxford"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 February 1939 · page 14

The bells of Oxford, whose tone, it is said, can be heard nowhere else in the world, are playing their first symphony on a motion picture screen. It is a literal symphony…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "The Girl of the Golden West"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 14

Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy have reached their topmost heights to date as the screen's queen and king of song in "The Girl of the Golden West," which comes on…

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Show Council Governor to Open Exhibition Show Ball to Be Held New Councillor Elected

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 February 1939 · page 12

THE pleasing news that His Excellency the Governor, Lord Wakehurst, has consented to attend and officially open this year's Hawkesbury Show…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Going Places"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 March 1939 · page 9

"Going Places," the Warner Bros, picture which, comes on Friday and Saturday to the Royal Theatre, with Dick Powell and Anita Louise heading the cast, is a hilarious farce…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Love Finds Andy Hardy"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 10 March 1939 · page 14

Mickey Rooney hasn't any worries! He's probably the only person in the United States who is in a continual dither of happiness. Which is as unusual as Mickey…

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Royal Theatre Windsor "Suez"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 17 March 1939 · page 14

When earth, air and water all let go at once in a terrific Sabara simoon in 20th Century-Fox's Spectacular "Suez" audiences at the Royal Theatre on Saturday and…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "The Crowd Roars"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 24 March 1939 · page 14

In every boxing picture so far to reach the screen, there has always been room for criticism. All too frequently the displays were very, very amateurish, and caused more…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Wings of the Navy"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 31 March 1939 · page 14

Produced with the unstinted co-operation of the United States Navy, "Wings of the Navy," a Warner Bros.-Cosmopolitan picture which effectively dramatises the…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Three Loves Has Nancy"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 April 1939 · page 3

Chromium and glass bricks, in conjunction with Janet Gaynor, Robert Montgomery and Franchot Tone have started a new fashion in American homes that is resulting in…

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Royal Theatre Windsor "The Shopworn Angel"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 April 1939 · page 12

There were more than 500 unofficial technical advisors on a Hollywood motion picture set and not one of them could agree with another. The scene was a typical…

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Royal Theatre Windsor "Tail Spin"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 April 1939 · page 3

"Tail Spin," which tells the story of three women who fly, offers Nancy Kelly her best role to date. In the film, she portrays a young girl who enters the dangerous…

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