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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

368 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 14 of 19

The Kilties' Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 6

The Kilties Band trought their season in the Victoria Theatre to a close last night. There was a perforemance given in the afternoon, when there was a fair…

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The Lyceum Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 6

The Central Hall was eveywhere crowded last night, the new programme of moving pictures being received with loud applause, "The France-British…

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Smoke Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 27 October 1908 · page 5

The celebrations of the day were concluded with a smoke concert, held in the Trades Hall last night. Mr. Rees Powell, president of the committee, was in the…

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The Lyceum Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 6

The second of the series of locally-taken moving pictures will be shown to-day and this evening, at the Central Hall. The scenes were taken last Eight-hour Day, and…

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The Cherniavski Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 31 October 1908 · page 6

The Cherniavaski brothers, Leo, Jan, and Mischel, assisted by Mr. Percival Driver, an English baritone, were accorded an enthusiastic welcome at the West…

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King's Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 November 1908 · page 6

The two exhibitions of King's pictures at the Picturescope Palace, Newcomen-street, on Saturday, attracted very large and enthusiastic audiences. The pictures…

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King's Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 November 1908 · page 6

The excellent programme at King's Picturescope Palace, Newcomen-street, was witnessed by a very large audience last night. "For the Sake of His…

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The Lyceum Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 4 November 1908 · page 6

The local series of moving pictures drew another very large audience at the Central Hall last night. The scenes on Eight-hour Day at the Newcastle beach,…

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Continental Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 5 November 1908 · page 6

An attendance, numbering about several hundred persons, visited the Rugby Football Ground last evening, when the second of the summer night series of…

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The Lyceum Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 7 November 1908 · page 6

At the Central Hall to-day the management wilt present their fourteenth weekly change of programme, the piece de resistance being "Life's Game of Cards" (the management…

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King's Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 November 1908 · page 6

Large audiences were present at the two exhibitions of King's pictures at the Picturescope Palace, Newcomen-street, on Saturday and the beauty and artistic…

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The Lyceum Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 November 1908 · page 6

The Lyceum pictures at the Central Hall on Saturday afternoon and evening provided large audiences with much appreciated entertainment. "Life is a Game of…

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Iron Trades' Smoke Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 9 November 1908 · page 7

A smoke concert under the auspices of the various unions engaged in the iron-working trades in the district was held in the Foresters' Hall, Church-street…

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King's Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 6

There was a very large attendance at the Picturescope Palace, Newcomen-street, last evening, all the available seating accommodation being occupied…

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The Lyceum Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 6

There was a crowded audience at the Central Hall last night, when Saturday's programme was repeated with great success. Prominent features this week are…

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Hospital Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 10 November 1908 · page 5

To-night, a grand concert will be given it the theatre, on behalf of the Newcastle Hospital, under the auspices of the Cambrian Society. The Newcastle West…

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Eisteddfod Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 11 November 1908 · page 6

A concert promoted by the Newcastle Cambrian Society in aid of the hospital was given in the Victoria Theatre last night. The Mayor of Newcastle,…

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Spiritualistic Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 5

A noted English clergyman—he appears to be that from his rank—is contributing to a magazine in his country a series of papers on spiritualistic photgraphy. And…

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King's Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 6

At the Picturescope Palace, Newcomen-street, wilt he provided. The matinee in to be held at 2.30. The new films embrace travel subjects, dramatic stories, quaint and…

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Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 14 November 1908 · page 6

On Friday, December 4. a dramatic entertainment will be given in the Victoria Theatre, under the direction of the Misses' Mildred Scott Holland and Nellie Jarvis. Two one…

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