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Hunter Valley · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1953

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Told of £1,000 Win at Pictures

The Cessnock Eagle and South Maitland Recorder · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 7

Mrs. A. [?] Green, of [?] Margaret-street, Cessnock, who won second prize of £1,000 in the lottery drawn…

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To-day’s Leader Fires Do Not “Break Out” Profit in Pictures

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 1

LONDON: Britain’s giant cinema combine, the J. Arthur Rank organisation, yesterday announced a trading…

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Celebrity Concert

Maitland Mercury · Friday 4 September 1953 · page 3

Following is the programme for the Australian Broadcasting Commission’s celebrity concert by William…

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Variety Concert at Parish Hall

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 5 September 1953 · page 4

The variety concert held at the Parish Hall last Thursday night was a great success, the takings being over £16…

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Local & General News Band Pays Visit

Singleton Argus · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 2

Singleton, Cessnock and Muswellbrook bands combined to play a programme of music for the…

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Big Crowd at Concert

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 2

More than 1000 crowded the Town Hall night on the occasion of the first birthday presentation of…

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Celebrity Concert

Maitland Mercury · Monday 7 September 1953 · page 2

Chopin’s Sonata in B Minor, Op[?] will be one of major works in pianist William Kapell’s recital at…

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Diggers’ Square Dance Club

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 8 September 1953 · page 2

The East Maitland RSL has decided to form a Maitland Diggers’ square dance club as a result of a successful square…

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St. Mary’s Ball

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 2

Arrangements are well in and to ensure that St. Mary’s annual spring ball will be the isual success…

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Theatre Programmes Palace and Prince’s

Maitland Mercury · Wednesday 9 September 1953 · page 2

Donald O’Connor and Debbie Reynolds co-star in “I Love Merlin” the technicolour musical, commencing to-night…

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Formation of Band for Raymond Terrace

Raymond Terrace Examiner and Lower Hunter and Port Stephens Advertiser · Thursday 10 September 1953 · page 5

A very successful meeting was held in the Shire Chambers on Tuesday night last to consider the…

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Square Dance Club

Maitland Mercury · Friday 11 September 1953 · page 2

The Diggers’ Square Dance Club was formed last night at the East Maitland R.S.L. Hall There was a good…

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Footballers' Ball To-night

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Saturday 12 September 1953 · page 4

The football season will come to a grand finale with the ball in James theatre this Friday night. Lovers of…

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Largs C. Of E. Spring Ball

Maitland Mercury · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 4

Spring-time was greatly in evidence in Largs School of Arts, when St. Andrew’s Church of England Ball we…

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Stars of the Air. Farm Girl Now Concert Violinist

The Muswellbrook Chronicle · Tuesday 15 September 1953 · page 6

A FORMER country girl (she comes from a dairy farm outside Mullumbimby, N.S.W.), Perry Hart is now…

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Annual Footballers' Ball Flu Takes Toll

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 4

About 200 dancers attended the 7th Annual Footballers' Ball in the James Theatre on Friday evening. Club…

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300 people attended benefit dance for Elderslie boy

Singleton Argus · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 1

More than 300 people from all parts of the Singleton district were present at Elderslie Hall on Friday night when a benefit dance was held to provide assistance for nine-year-old…

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"The Last of the Mohicans" at James Theatre

Dungog Chronicle : Durham and Gloucester Advertiser · Wednesday 16 September 1953 · page 4

Randolph Scott, Binnie Barnes and Henry Wilcoxon, head one of the greatest casts of stars ever assembled on the…

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Carnival Dance

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 September 1953 · page 2

A happy gathering of dancers attended Maitland Town Hall for the dance arranged by Jim Hunt’s Cr…

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Square Dance Club

Maitland Mercury · Thursday 17 September 1953 · page 3

Maitland Square Dance Club’s next evening will be held in the East Maitland RSL Hall to-morrow, night…

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