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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1939

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Man's Heritage"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 June 1939 · page 16

A studio sound man tried to perform a miracle, and failed. Because of that failure. Andy Devine has a good job in the movies and wide popularity as a comedy star…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Three Smart Girls Grow Up"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 30 June 1939 · page 12

Deanna Durbin has done it again. In her fifth consecutive success, this 16-year-old singing star has bettered her former efforts. The record that seemed incredible has been…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Yes, My Darling Daughter."

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 7 July 1939 · page 14

The star attraction at the Royal Theatre Windsor this, Saturday and Monday is "Yes. My Darling Daughter," featuring Priscilla Lane and Jeffery Lynn…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Stand Up and Fight"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 3

Probably because my father, Patrolman Noah Beery of Kansas City, Mo., liked nothing better than to hunt and fish, I've had the same hobby ever since I can remember…

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Annual Ball of St. Albans Younger Set a Great Success

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 14 July 1939 · page 8

FOR many weeks past the members of the Church of England Younger Set at St Albans have worked assiduously preparing for their Annual Ball, which was held on…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Jesse James"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 21 July 1939 · page 14

The most romantic outlaw in the history of America, the desperado whose daring colored a whole era and endowed it with the title of the "Serious Seventies"—the man…

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Kurrajong Theatre Coming Attractions. the Last Gangster"

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 5

Entertainment of a gripping nature is offered to audiences in "The Last Gangster," which comes to the Kurrajong Theatre on Saturday,…

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Biographical Sketch of Walt Disney Presented by RKO Pictures

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 27 July 1939 · page 2

Walt Disney's valiant and Lilliputian Mickey Mouse is much more real to children, in every country in which his films are distributed, than…

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Fine Effort Annual Hospital Ball Held at Windsor

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 28 July 1939 · page 7

WITH the advent of every Hawkestmry social season public attention is immediately attracted to a few selected fixtures which appear annually on the entertainment…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "The Hound of the Baskervilles"

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

One hundred and forty-three dogs had their day at the 20th .Century-Fox studios recently. They were being tested for the title role in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's "The Hound…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "The Shining Hour"

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

Joan Crawford now dances in a motion picture for the first time in five years. Fred. Astaire was her partner in "Dancing Lady," which introduced 'both Nelson Eddy and…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor 'Story of Alexander Graham Bell'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 18 August 1939 · page 14

Out of the stirring past of a great nation emerges a drama of accomplishment that symbolizes the (tradition of America—the story of (Alexander Graham Bell, inventor…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Sweethearts"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 25 August 1939 · page 14

The outstanding musical treat of the new movie season comes to the Royal Theatre Windsor, on Saturday and Monday with the fifth co-starring appearance of Jeanette…

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Kurrajong Theatre Coming Attractions

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 3

Coming to the Kurrajong Theatre on Saturday, September 2nd: "THE FOUR JUST MEN" Thrilling melodrama based on…

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Netherlands Ball Country Women's Novel Evening

Hawkesbury Herald · Thursday 31 August 1939 · page 1

The Country Women's Associations are noted for their knack of hitting on novel ideas for their functions. This year the annual ball of…

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Royal Theatre Windsor Confessions of Anzai Srv"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 September 1939 · page 12

Confessions of a Nazi Spy," starring Edward G. Robinson, has its first local showing on Saturday and Monday at the Royal Theatre, Windsor. It is a sensational…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "The Little Princess"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 September 1939 · page 12

In her first Technicolor production Shirley Temple reveals all her radiant charm and amazing talent in "The Little Princess"' the 20th Century—Fox hit which brings the…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Four Girls in White"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 14

"Four Girls in White," coming to the Royal Theatre on Saturday and Monday; pays a tribute to the great profession of nursing. Featuring a cast of five principals…

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Kurrajong Success C.w.a. Netherlands Ball Opened by Mrs. Lawson

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 September 1939 · page 4

THE Annual Ball of the Kurrajong branch of the C.W.'A. was held in the Kurrajong Theatre on Thursday evening, August 24, and was universally proclaimed as the…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Honolulu"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 September 1939 · page 14

Eleanor Powell, America's foremost dance star, predicts that within six months the new dance craze will be the old-fashioned waltz. As Grand Trouper of the Young…

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