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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1939

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Kentucky"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 14

With the glorious tradition of the Blue Grass country as its background, and the famed Kentucky Derby as its spectacular climax, "Kentucky," a 20th Century-Fox…

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Novel Dance Successful Riverstone Effort Nursery Rhyme Night

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 3

STRIKING a novel—and therefore appreciated—note in local forms of dancing entertainment, the Nursery Rhyme Dance held in the Masonic Hall, Riverstone, on…

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Show Ball Opens Hawkesbury Social Season Proves Brilliant Success

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 April 1939 · page 10

WITH all its ostentation and gaiety, the official district dancing season for 1939 was ushered in under very auspicious circumstances on Tuesday…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Son of Frankenstein"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 10

Famed producers of the screen's most notable all-time shockers, Universal studios reassume the position as leader in the field of spine-tingling- dramas -with "Son of…

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Another Success Windsor Rowing Club Dance Pleasin'g Attendance

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 May 1939 · page 10

"FOLLOWING on the success of their recent initial venture in this field, the members of the Windsor and District Rowing Club staged another very successful…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Test Pilot"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 3

The most modern of heroes, airplane test pilots, are glorified in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's first aviation picture in more than two years, "Test 'Pilot" which stars Clark Gable…

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Show Dance Happy Windsor Function R.c. Funds Benefit

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 May 1939 · page 13

LOOKED forward to by district dancing enthusiasts with. almost the same eagerness as the local farming community await the advent of the Hawkesbury show, the…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor 'Marie Antoinette'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 6

Marie Antoinette was a very human person. Her virtues and faults were no different from those of any modern woman It was this discovery that first interested me in…

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Big Success Motor Boat Club Ball Happy Windsor Function

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 14

SETTING out with one object in view—to provide all patrons with a night of gay revelry and enjoyment, the financial result being only a secondary consideration…

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Annual Ball Fine Riverstone C.w.a. Effort All Standards Maintained

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 May 1939 · page 12

RENOWNED throughout the Hawkesbury for their outstanding ability as social organisers, the Riverstone branch of the Country Women's Association upheld their…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Listen, Darling"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 May 1939 · page 12

"The problem of shooting almost half a motion picture production in a trailer, which was the case with "Listen, Darling," new comedy featuring Freddie Bartholomew and…

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Big Patronage Enjoyable Pitt Town Concert Good Anglican Effort

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 May 1939 · page 4

AN extremely attractive and profitable cantata and concert was held in the Pitt Town School of Arts on Tuesday evening of last week, when the hall was artistically…

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Brilliant Effort Richmond Diggers' Ball Big Attendance

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 8

ORGANISED with a dual purpose—of providing the members of the branch and their friends with a happy rendezvous, and to raise funds to help relieve the distress…

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Show Revenue Reveals Disappointing Drop Ball Splendid Success

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 10

NOTWITHSTANDING the fact that the 1939 Show was "all that it could be," and that the general standard of the exhibition was excellent, while the official opening was…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "The Boy From Barnardos'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 June 1939 · page 14

Freddie Bartholomew was trained to row by the best British coaches, by proxy Freddie went into intensive training at San Pedro, Calif., to act as coxswain in a lifeboat…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Peg O' My Heart"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 June 1939 · page 12

A bit of the "ould sod" of Ireland was transported all the way to Hollywood for the reproduction of a County Mayo village scene in Marion Davies' "Peg O' My Heart…

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Show Council Farmers' COMPETITiONS Arranged Show Ball Helpers Thanked Accounts for £1154 PASSED

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 June 1939 · page 5

DECISIONS to hold a Championship Field Maize Competition and a Fodder Conservation Competition as usual this year were features of the monthly meeting of the…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Boys' Town"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 10

"There is no such thing as a bad boy." Father Edward J. Flanagan made that statement twenty-one years ago. Whatever their race or creed, boys are just boys to…

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Fine Gesture by Sydney Radio Artists Excellent Windsor Concert

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 June 1939 · page 3

ALTHOUGH held on a night that proved to be one of the coldest yet experienced this winter, the Grand Concert organised by the Auxiliary of the Hawkesbury District…

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Valedictory Popular Couple Farewelled Windsor Band Function

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 14

AT the invitation of the social committee of the Windsor Band, members and supporters, together with their wives and sweethearts, gathered at the Council Chambers on…

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