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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1940

67 stories in Hawkesbury (Windsor & Richmond)'s papers · page 1 of 4

Royal Theatre, Windsor "Dust Be My Destiny"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 January 1940 · page 12

"Dust Be My Destiny" is the first blazing story of America's migratory workers of a boy and girl searching for the grapes of happiness, battling alone against the wrath…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "The Rains Came"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 January 1940 · page 11

"The Rains Came," the Louis Bromfield best-seller, which costars Myrna Loy with Tyrone Power and George Brent, comes on Saturday and Monday to the Royal Theatre…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Susannah of the Mounties"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 January 1940 · page 10

A thousand savage [?] sweep down on the Mounties lonely outpost! A gallant garrison fights against overwhelming odds! A lone woman finds love amid peril on a…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Calling Dr. Kildare"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 January 1940 · page 14

Lionel Barrymore was more important to one fan than everything- else in Hollywood combined, although she had only seen, him once on the screen and once on the stage…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Hollywood Cavalcade"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 2 February 1940 · page 4

Don Ameche has played a variety of roles in Hollywood, but never one as colorful or unusual as that of Michael Linnett Connors, in Darryl F. Zanuck's production of…

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Royal Theatre Windsor "Lucky Night"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 9 February 1940 · page 12

To sock, or not to sock. That was the question that threatened Myrna Loy's reputation as the Perfect Lady of the Screen— until Robert Taylor intervened. The authors…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "First Love"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 16 February 1940 · page 3

Now definitely in the "young" lady class," Deanna Durbin appears in her sixth picture as a motion picture star. Only a few years ago Deanna was taking a lesson at the home…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "The Under Pup"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 23 February 1940 · page 14

Hollywood moved the mountains again for Universal's "The Under Pup," coming to the Royal Theatre on Saturday and Monday, and movie magicians employed technical means…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Gold Diggers in Paris"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 1 March 1940 · page 12

The Royal Theatre will be the scene of a gala premiere on Saturday and Monday when "Gold Diggers in Paris" has its initial Windsor showing. The latest and most…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Two Bright Boys'"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 8 March 1940 · page 3

Four hundred pounds of dynamite, black powder and nitro-glycerine were set off in the oil well explosion which provides one of the spectacular highlights in "Two Bright…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Tower of London"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 15 March 1940 · page 4

Watching one's own son beheaded is a, grim experience at best, even when it is i strictly a screen stunt. That unique spectacle was witnessed by Basil Rathbone in pursuit…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Little Accident"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 22 March 1940 · page 13

Hugh Herbert was literally "up a tree when he first hit upon the "woo-woo" phrase which to-day is as well known as his own name. Parked in the tree while doing…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 12

Bette Davis, as everybody knows, gave performances in "Dangerous," and in "Jezebel," each of which won her the highest award offered by the Academy of Motion…

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Show Council Monthly Meeting Makes Final Arrangements Tenders for Rights Accepted Annual Ball Decision

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 29 March 1940 · page 1

AT the final monthly meeting before its Diamond Jubilee Show ton April 11, 12 and 13, the council of the Hawkesbury District Agricultural…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "We Are Not Alone"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 5 April 1940 · page 12

Only a few days before Muni had finished his final scenes for "We Are Not Alone," his latest film which comes to the Royal Theatre next Saturday and Monday. At the…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Good-bye, Mr. Chips"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 12

Do you remember saving up your pocket money for the fund to provide the biggest and most indigestible accumulation of delicacies for the midterm midnight feast at…

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Enjoyable Concert for Red Cross Funds Fine Pitt Town Effort

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 12 April 1940 · page 10

ATTRACTING a capacity "house," the concert and dance held at the Pitt Town School of Arts on Friday evening proved to be an excellent, entertainment, the major…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Four Wives"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 19 April 1940 · page 14

"Four Wives," sequel to last year's "Four Daughters," will have its local debut on Saturday and Monday at the Royal Theatre. "Four Wives," in which Priscilla, Rosemary…

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Royal Theatre, Windsor "Day-time Wife"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 26 April 1940 · page 10

Tyrone Power recently chanced upon the interesting and highly gratifying discovery that his film success fulfilled same old dreams of his late father—but in a way…

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Royal Theatre. Windsor "Drums Along the Mohawk"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Friday 3 May 1940 · page 12

Innumerable action pictures have proved conclusively in the past that the screen is the best of all entertainment mediums fair portraying action. When the action is…

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