Victoria Theatre
A TREMENDOUS house last night greeted the production of Mr. George Darrell’s famous drama of "Transported for Life." The acting throughout was beyond all…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1885
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Newcastle Superior Public School. Prize Fund Concert
ON reference to our advertisement column it will be seen a splendid programme has been prepared in aid of the above fund, which programme will be rendered in the…
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LAST Saturday evening witnessed the final performance of the drama "Transported for Life," and the close of the present season of Mr. George Darrell's talented company at…
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THIS concert, in aid of the prize fund, will be rendered this evening in the Victoria Theatre. By reference to the programme in another column, it will be seen that really…
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LAST evening a highly successful concert was given at the Victoria Theatre, in aid of the prize fund of the Newcastle Superior Public School. The affair had been the theme of conversation for…
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A VERY sucessful concert in aid of the organ fund in connection with the Young Men's Christian Association took place last night at the Lyceum Hall, Newcomen-street,…
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ON Saturday night that popular and talented actor Mr. Alfred Dampier, and his dramatic company, made their reapearance before a Newcastle audience after an absence of…
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LAST evening another capital house testified to the public appreciation of "Brought to Justice" at the above theatre. The drama went remarkably smoothly, and but…
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As we predicted, "Saint or Sinner" drew a crowded house last evening. The leading character in this pathetic drama, Jean Valjean, has long been one of Mr. Dampier's "chef-d'ceuvres,"…
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LAST evening at the Victoria Theatre was produced for the first time in Newcastle a piece entitled "The Christmas Story," dramatised from several of Dickens' well-known works by Mr…
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LAST night the theatre was crammed to witness the performance of Shakespeare's great creation, "Hamlet," the title, role being sustained by Mr. Alfred Dampier,…
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SATURDAY night , being the close of the present reason, witnessed the performance of an entirely new Australian drama, called "Arnold's Lock, or under the Southern…
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THE concert in connection with the Rosebud bud Lodge of the above came off on Friday evening last, in St. Mark's Mission Hall, Islington. Mr. W. Grahame occupied the…
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Messrs. Williamson, Garner, and Musgrove open their season in Newcastle on Boxing Night, with the "Private Secretary." We predict a bumper house, and…
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THEATRE-GOERS will be afforded a genuine treat at the Victoria Theatre on Boxing Night, when these well-known theatrical lights, Messrs. Williamson, Garner, and…
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At 2 minutes after half-past seven o'clock on Boxing Night, the six foremost rows of the stalls were filled from end to end with the nucleus of an expectant audience, two…
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A highly successful sacred concert, in aid of the Benevolent Society, took place at the Victoria Theatre on Christmas Night, which, had the weather been less inclement, would,…
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LAST night the theatre was again crowded by people anxious to witness Mr. Frank Thornton and his efficient company in that intensely amusing comedy, "The Private…
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MR. Frank Thornton's unique and laughable impersonation of the leading part in the "Private Secretary" was again enthusiastically received last night. The character is…
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