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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1936

1,124 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 8 of 57

Concert at Hamilton

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 9

The annual Irish national concert was held at the Sacred Heart Hall, Hamilton, on Monday night. The national costumes added to the brightness of the…

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Symphony Concerts First of Series To-night Schubert on

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 18 March 1936 · page 4

The Broadcasting Commission's 1936 series of symphony concerts begins tonight. Dr. Edgar L. Bainlon, Director of the N.S.W. Conservatorium of Music,…

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Jubilee Gala at Adamstown Opened with Ball Last Night

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 4

Adamstown's jubilee celebrations Were inaugurated last night with a ball in the Trots Arbres Hall. Mrs. John Turnbull, who wore a black Velvet gown and a plaited halo, Was judged the belle of the ball, and Was presented…

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Big Offer to Band Davidson Bound by Contract May Leave Next Year Sydney

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 5

Although it was announced in Melbourne a few days ago that Jim Davidson had accepted a contract of £400 a week to take his dance band to…

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200 Die in Fire Chinese Theatre Disaster Others Drowned London

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 1

More than 200 people, including 14 actors and actresses, lost their lives in the fire which destroyed a theatre in a village…

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Woman's Realm Jubilee Ball Adamstown en Fete Large Gathering at Trois Arbres Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 19 March 1936 · page 11

The golden jubilee celebrations in connection with the proclamation of Adamstown as a municipality were ushered in last night with a very successful hall staged…

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Marist Brothers' Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 16

The date for the annual Marist Brothers' Ball has been fixed for Wednesday, June 24, and the ball will be held in Newcastle Town Hall. The committee,…

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"Song And Dance Man" At The Royal

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 3

THE main attraction at the Theatre Royal, commencing to-morrow, and showing all the week will be Fox Studio's film, "Song and Dance…

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Sacred And Secret Dance the Wanji-wanji Mrs. Bates Watches Many Totem Boards

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 10

"I ATTENDED every performance, right to the close, when the sacred and secret parts of the dance, forbidden to women and girls, were enacted at a spot five miles from my camp."…

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OVER 200 PERISH Tragedy in Chinese Village Trapped in Theatre Fire London, March 18

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 14

More than 200 people, including 14 actors and actresses, lost their lives in the fire which destroyed a theatre in a village 20 miles to the south of Tientsin, states the…

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Community Singing Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 16

A programme of community singing was given in the Central Hall. King-street, last night, with items by Sydney artists. A fair attendance enjoyed the programme…

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Successful Concert Excelsior Welfare Club

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 16

A concert, arranged by Lysaght's Excelsior Welfare Club, under the direction of Mrs. A. Giggins, was held at Waratah Town Hall on Monday evening. There was…

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St. Patrick's Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 20 March 1936 · page 15

The annual concert in celebration of St. Patrick's Day in West Maitland was held in the Cathedral Hall on Tuesday and Wednesday nights. There were good…

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Ammonia Escape in Theatre Woman Sent to Hospital Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 21 March 1936 · page 5

Firemen and an ambulance were called this afternoon to the Roxy Theatre, Parramatta, where escaping ammonia from the air-cooling systems…

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At Morisset St. Patrick's Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 3

Morisset Roman Catholic Church, to commemorate St. Patrick's Day, held a all in the Morisset Memorial Hall. The decorations were carried out in white and…

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"Song and Dance Man" at the Royal

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 8

Once a trouper always a trouper is the moral hammered home by Paul Kelly in "Song and Dance Man," the main attraction this week at the…

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Romance at Royal "Song and Dance Man"

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 4

"Song and Dance Man," which is showing this week at the Theatre Royal, a good entertainment which neither rises…

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Boy Killed Sought Ball on Roof Electrocuted at Dungog Dungog

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 23 March 1936 · page 6

Kevin Mate, 10, was electrocuted yesterday afternoon when be climbed on to a roof at Dungog to get a ball with which he and several other boys had been…

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Some Air Mail Pictures :: New Papal Delegate

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 5

His Majesty, Edward VIII., stepping from his car on his arrival at Clydebank to make a tour of inspection of the new Transatlantic liner, Queen Mary…

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Famous Theatre Destroyed Ballarat Colisseum Melbourne

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 24 March 1936 · page 8

A fire to-day reduced to ashes the Colisseum at Ballarat—one of tho largest picture houses in Australia, and the scene since 1908 of the…

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