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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1928

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Waratah Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

"The Stolen Bride" (Billie Dove) and Lloyd Hughes), and "The Frontiersman" are in the programme to be shown to-night…

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Mayfield Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

"It" (Clara Bow" and "California" (Tim M'Coy) are in the programme for this evening…

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Theatre Royal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

An adaptation of the great stage success, "Cradle Snatchers," will be screened at the Theatre Royal to-day, with Louise Fazenda, Dorothy Phillips, and Sammy…

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Strand Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6
Also in The Newcastle Sun

"Hills of Kentucky," which is the main attraction at the Strand Theatre, introduces Rin-Tin-Tin, the sagacious dog, in a story full of adventure, with Jason…

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Tighe's Hill Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

"Rookies," an American comedy of the days of the war, is the main feature of the programme to be shown to-night. It will be screened also at Carrington…

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Lyric Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6
Also in The Newcastle Sun

"Pals in Paradise," which will be shown for the first time to-day at the Lyric Theatre, is a dramatic story of long delayed justice, with John Bowers and…

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Union Pictures, Cook's Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

The programme for this afternoon and evening includes "Mr. Wu" (Lon Chaney) and "A Princess on Broadway."…

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Amusements Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

Billy Maloney's Scandals' Company entered upon the second week of their season at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday with a complete new programme, which…

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Theatre Royal "Cradle Snatchers"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

"Cradle Snatchers," the hilarious farce of weary wives and wandering husbands, is the feature picture at the Theatre Royal to-day. The cast is…

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Broke His Leg Human Cannon Ball LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 1

Leinert, the human cannon ball, who dressed in a uniform and a crash hel mit, was projected from a cannon 4[?] feet into a large net, was carrying out…

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In the Theatres Victoria Theatre Billy Maloney's "Scandals"

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

Nat Hartley's gift for comedy did much towards the success of the now programme presented by Billy Maloney's "Scandals," at the…

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New Year Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 2 January 1928 · page 6

Despite a sixty-mile-an-hour gale, which raged at its worst in the higher parts of Newcastle, large numbers of people made this way to King Edward Park…

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Theatre Royal

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 6

"Cradle Snatchers," Fox Film's version of the hilarious American farce, and which has been a big success on the Australian stage, had the first of its three day's…

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Lyric Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 6

"Pals in Paradise," yesterday's first feature at the Lyric Theatre, is a picture which gets away from the usual paths. It has been adapted from Peter B. Kyne's…

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Strand Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 6

Adolphe Menjou has never had a mere congenial role than that of Albert Leroux in his latest picture "Service for Ladies," which was given its first showing…

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Union Pictures, Cook's Hill

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 6

Lon Chaney appears in another of his remarkable character roles in "Mr. Wn." which heads the programme at the Union Pictures. It is a story of the vengeance…

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For Strand Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 7

Direct from the Lyric Wintergarden Theatre. Sydney, the pantomime extravaganza, "Cinderella" will [?] at th Strand Theatre next Saturday…

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Amusements Victoria Theatre

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 3 January 1928 · page 6

At the Victoria Theatre yesterday the excellent programme presented by Billy Maloney's "Scandals" Company was received by large audiences, with many…

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