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New England · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1895

32 stories in New England's papers · page 1 of 2

Hints for Hanging Pictures

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1895 · page 4

THREE are certain rules regarding the hanging of pictures that one can safely follow. Give dark and gloomy subjects the lightest place and the light, bright ones…

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Forged Theatre Passes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 15 January 1895 · page 3

A bill-sticker named Edward Brown was to-day sentenced to three months for selling forged complimentary tickets for the theatre…

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A Horse in a Theatre

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 29 January 1895 · page 4

A SENSATIONAL occurrence happened recently at the Brighton Gaiety Theatre, the home of melodrama in the town. During a performance of 'Wild Violet,' the heroine rode on to the…

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Followed the Band

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Friday 1 February 1895 · page 8

HANS von Bulow, the famous leader and composer, who died a short time ago, was an eccentric member of a profession in which eccentricity is…

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Weird Fagot Dance of the Navajo Indians

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1895 · page 3

THE performances of the Navajo Indians at night are extremely theatrical. A dark circle of branches was built around the fire about…

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Combined District Show. Conclusion. Everybody Pleased and No One Hurt. List of Unpublished Prizewinners the Ladies' Ball Costumes

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 26 March 1895 · page 3

GLEN INNES has about fairly recovered from the round of pleasure and business and private and public gaiety with which she in unison and by the assistance of her elder…

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Sketcher a Smoking Concert

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 29 March 1895 · page 3

A smoking concert on board ship. Always a novel kind of entertainment, it is nowhere more so than on one of our great men-of- war, where the officers and men alike feel--…

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The Wandsworth Concert (To the Editor.)

The Armidale Chronicle · Wednesday 8 May 1895 · page 2

SIR,—In your issue of the 27th ultimo, I noticed that an effort bad been made by a writer termed "One of the Audience" to criticise the…

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Ceremonial of the Garter Dance

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 31 May 1895 · page 4

The youngest of the Emperor Frederick's daughters is the Princess Margaret, who recently became the wife of Prince Charles Frederick of Hesse. Their marriage took…

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The Wesleyan Concert

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 7 June 1895 · page 2

ON Wednesday evening the concert and cantata in aid of the building fund of the Glen Innes Wesleyan Church took place in the Town Hall, and judging from the large audience that filled the e…

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Commercial Travellers' Ball

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 11 June 1895 · page 2

" Such on Eurota's banks or Cynthia's height Diana seems, and so she charms the sight ; When in the dance the graceful goddess leads Her choir of nymphs, and overtops their heads. "…

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The Newbury-Spada Concert Company

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 2 July 1895 · page 2

Place aux dames. Probably Madame Emily Spada, who hails from a land-- America-- that has given the world many line voices, is heard at her best in oratorio. Nevertheless, in no class of music,…

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What a Cannon Ball can Do

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Tuesday 6 August 1895 · page 4

IN dwelling upon the wonderful power of the guns of the Indiana, Albert Franklin Matthews, in an article on 'The Evolution of a Battleship' in the Century, gives illustration from the…

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The Armidale Band. an Urgent Appeal

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 10 August 1895 · page 3

It is only dealing in platitudes to repeat the enc[?]miums which have so often been passed on the Armidale Band, but it is necessary to once more…

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Ball-stand

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 16 August 1895 · page 4

A game frequently played in gymnasiums is ball-stand. One of its numerous claims to favor is that, like basket-ball, it is a game can be played either in or…

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Two Pictures. As It Is

The Walcha Witness and Vernon County Record · Saturday 17 August 1895 · page 3

John Hodge takes, up land, 320 acres, on the conditional purchase system. It is good land, and he pays £2 and acre for it. His fortune is…

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The Annual Hospital Ball

The Armidale Chronicle · Saturday 31 August 1895 · page 4

A very largely attended meeting of ladies for the purpose of arranging matters in connection with the Annual Hospital Ball was held in the…

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Charity Ball

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 6 September 1895 · page 2

SOCIALLY the event of the week has been the annual hall in aid of the funds of the Ladies Benevolent Society, which took place in the Town Hall on Wednesday evening. The attendance this year…

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What Theatre Curtains Cost

The Armidale Express and New England General Advertiser · Tuesday 10 September 1895 · page 3

FEW have any idea of the money spent by managers of London theatres in procuring the curtain which hides the stage from public view…

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A Ball Ad of Evolution

Glen Innes Examiner and General Advertiser · Friday 13 September 1895 · page 4

In the mud of the Cambrian main Did our earliest ancestor dive: From a shapeless albuminous grain We mortals our being derive…

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