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

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1944

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Great Success Comforts Fund Dance Held at Sackville

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 January 1944 · page 1

THE Sackville North School of Arts was recently the scene of the most successful dance held in that hall for some years, and those who…

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Regent Theatre "Frontier Badmen"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 January 1944 · page 6

Robert Paige, Anne Gwynne, Noah Beery, Jr., Diana Barrymore and other notables are featured in Universal's "Frontier Badmen," which…

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Kurrajong Theatre "China Girl."

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 6

Encounters with Japs and intriguing soldiers of fortune furnish George Montgomery with plenty of hair-raising…

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Regent Theatre "It Ain't Hay"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 19 January 1944 · page 4

Four new musical selections are featured in Damon Runyon's "It Ain't Hay." The Universal Abbott and Costello comedy is coming…

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Regent Theatre "Air Raid Wardens"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 26 January 1944 · page 6

The antics of Laurel and Hardy embellish the business of civilian defence in "Air Raid Wardens," playing at the Regent Theatre on…

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Regent Theatre "My Friend Flicka"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 4

Roddy McDowall presents an understanding portrait of a sensitive lad in Mary O'Hara's "My Friend Flicka," the new technicolour film…

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£62 Netted Ball for Hospital Wilberforce Effort

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 2 February 1944 · page 1

THE venue of one of the most successful efforts of this type ever held in that area was the Wilberforce School of Arts on…

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Regent Theatre "Assignment in Brittany"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 9 February 1944 · page 4

Thrills of the Helen MacInnes novel come to real life in M-G-M's "Assignment in Brittany," which comes on Friday and Saturday to to the Regent…

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Regent Theatre "The Silver Fleet"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 16 February 1944 · page 6

Drama Compelling and intelligent thrills and suspense deriving from Dutch engineers' motive to destroy U-boats in own dockyard. Powerful…

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Kurrajong Theatre "Rhythm on Ice"

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 5

Flashing skates, whirling bodies streamlined for speed and the artistry of such screen favorites as Ellen Drew,…

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Cool Operating Theatre Hospital Directors Create Fund

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 23 February 1944 · page 2

Hawkesbury District Hospital directors on Friday night decided to use £63 received from a recent…

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Regent Theatre "The Desperadoes'

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 1 March 1944 · page 3

Randolph Scott, Glenn Ford and Edgar Buchanan are the desperate men; Claire Trevor and Evelyn Keyes the reckless women, in Columbia…

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Regent Theatre "They Got Me Covered"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 8 March 1944 · page 5

Well laid plans of Axis saboteurs are hilariously wrecked by a cracked brained news hound and his able girl assistant in Samuel Goldwyn's "They…

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Kurrajong Theatre "The Foreman Went to France."

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 8 March 1944 · page 6

"The Foreman Went to France." main offering at Kurrajong Theatre on Saturday, is dedicated to Melbourne Johns…

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Regent Theatre "Corvette K-225"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 4

Screen actor Richard Lane is winning new popularity with his colourful characterisation in "Corvette K-225," the Canadian naval film…

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Kurrajong Theatre "Springtime in the Rockies"

Hawkesbury Herald · Wednesday 15 March 1944 · page 6

Carmen Miranda cavorts with characteristic combustibility in "Springtime In The Rockies", principal offering at Kurrajong…

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Regent Theatre "Thunder Birds"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 22 March 1944 · page 2

Starring Gene Tierney, 20th Century-Fox's Technicolor "Thunder Birds" Soldiers of the Air, comes on Friday and Saturday to the Regent…

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Regent Theatre "The Green Hornet Strikes Again"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 29 March 1944 · page 4

Portraying a twentieth century Robin Hood, Warren Hull, popular action film hero, essays the title role in Universal's fifteen episode thriller…

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Regent Theatre "Salute John Citizen"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 5 April 1944 · page 3

Worthy to rank with, the best of British war films, "The Foreman Went to France" and "One of Our Aircraft is Missing," yet differing…

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Regent Theatre "Flying Tigers"

Windsor and Richmond Gazette · Wednesday 12 April 1944 · page 4

Republic has taken its material for "Flying Tigers," directly out of the newspaper headlines. The film, which comes to the Regent Theatre…

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