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Mid North Coast · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1917

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Smithtown Convent Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 4

THIS popular annual entertainment took place in Gladstone School of Arts on the night of December 21st, in the presence of a packed house. Pressure…

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Famous Trench Band

The Gloucester Advocate · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 4

The famous, band of the French Garde Republicaine arrived in London on September 27. The members of the band were…

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Arcadia Pictures

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Saturday 3 February 1917 · page 5

At the Arcadia Picture Palace tonight (Saturday) the five-reel film entitled "The Big Push," or "The Battle of the Somme," will be screened…

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Arcadia Pictures

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Wednesday 7 February 1917 · page 2

There was a big house at tile Arcadia on Saturday night, the magnet befog the great war picture "The Big Push." Although the film did not…

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Concert

The Northern Champion · Wednesday 14 February 1917 · page 6

Resolutions' were passed relative to the rate of admission to this function and the dance. The matter of making…

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Band Championship

The Northern Champion · Saturday 17 February 1917 · page 5

Mr. M. Edwards, secretary South Sydney Model Band, states that his band beat all comers in the B grade championship last year, but the New…

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K.W.W. Concert

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 7 March 1917 · page 4

IN the Victoria Theatre on Thursday night last about 600 folk attended a bright entertainment in aid of the funds of Kempsey Women Workers…

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Concert at Bowraville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 9 March 1917 · page 4

The entertainment on Wednesday evening with the object of raising money towards providing better travelling facilities for Rev. J. H…

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The Irish Concert. a Great Success

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 21 March 1917 · page 8

OVER a thousand people attended this splendid entertainment in McQuade's Victoria Theatre on Saturday night last, and over two hundred were…

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Town Topics. a Beach Dance

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 April 1917 · page 4

That masquerade dance fixed for Easter Monday night at South West Rocks, and organised by ladies there with Mrs. Beach as hon. secretary…

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The Show Concerts

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 4 April 1917 · page 4

DESPITE the fact that Mr. Sid Shipway saw stars, and tripped to see them, his fall from the Victoria Theatre stage on Wednesday night…

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The Lone Pine Band

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 6 April 1917 · page 4

Next week, the people of the Nambucca are to be treated to a musical programme by the Lone Pine Band. This band comprises 25 returned…

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Sayings From British Newspapers. Haig's Orchestra

The Northern Champion · Saturday 7 April 1917 · page 7

Sir Douglas Haig's batle plane unroll themselves like some mighty piece of music. How many movements there are, or where and when the finale will be played, who can tell…

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Concert

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 7 April 1917 · page 5

The children of St. Thomas' Sunday School, Port Macquarie, under the tuition of Mesdames Axelson and Atkinson and Miss Graham (pianist), gave an interesting…

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The Domestic Band

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 13 April 1917 · page 6

My father, the head of the family, "is ail adept at blowing his own trumpet while mother is equally expert at harping on one…

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Lone Pine Band

The Port Macquarie News and Hastings River Advocate · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 4

THE Lone Pine Memorial Baud, comprising twenty five returned soldier performers, will visit port Macquarie on Sunday next, the 15th inst. A programme of appropriate…

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Theatre with Gruesome Resources

The Northern Champion · Saturday 14 April 1917 · page 7

Kelly's Theatre, Liverpool, England, has just recently closed its career as an entertainment house. In the old days, when the theatre was known as the Colosseum, the…

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The Lone Pine Band

The Macleay Chronicle · Wednesday 18 April 1917 · page 8

This combination of returned soldiers visited Kempsey on Saturday and played to a crowded house in the Victoria Theatre on Saturday…

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Lone Pine Band

The Wingham Chronicle and Manning River Observer · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 4

This com[?]nation of instrumen[?]st and vocalists arrived in Wingham from Taree on Wednesday morning, and were billeted in various private homes…

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Lone Pine Band. at Macksville

Nambucca and Bellinger News · Friday 20 April 1917 · page 4

There was a fair audience at the F.S. Hall, Macksville, on Thursday night when the Lone Pine Band gave an interesting entertainment,…

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