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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937

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Yacht Club Dance New Year Party At Belmont

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 2

The Lake Macquarie Yacht Club party last night was the meeting place of many dancers, who came and Went from…

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Screen Fare Conducted by Robin Slessor Newspaper Pictures Are Improving Presentation of Press Life

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 January 1937 · page 3

In a score or so of films having a newspaper office for their background, seen in the last few years, few have been…

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Burnside Pipe Band At The Sydney Showground

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 6

The pipe band from the Burnside Homes at the Highland Gathering in Sydney yesterday…

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Strange Accident in Soccer Ball Makes Player Partly Blind London

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 2 January 1937 · page 7

Alex Finney. Bolton Wanderers' left back, has been the victim of one of the strangest accideits that ever occurred on a soccer field…

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Treatments of Murder Mysteries at the Theatre Royal

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 8

Two good detective stories, dealt with in entirely different manner, provide the entertainment this week at the Theatre Royal. The part of…

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The Talking Screen Music, Song and Dance "Swing Time" at the Civic

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 8

Best of the Astaire-Rogers musicals to date, "Swing Time" is the main attraction now at the Civic Theatre. The fact that the two stars go…

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Temporarily Blind Strange Soccer Accident Player Heads Ball London, January 2

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 8

Alex. Finney, Bolton Wanderers' left back, has been the victim of one of the strangest accidents that ever occurred on a occurred field…

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Pictures in Retrospect Best 10 Films Last Year

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 9

Newcastle audiences, in the five theatres showing first release films, saw a wide variety of pictures in 1936. With a few exceptions, every film which has…

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Sir Harry Lauder as a Golfer Pictures from Overseas

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 3

Sir Harry Lauder visited the Merewether Golf Links yesterday. Here he illustrates the Lauder stroke. Preparing The swing completed. "Now, what do ye think of that?"…

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Dance Band Leader's Contract LONDON

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 1

A 12 months engagement in London will prevent Brian Lawrence, the dance band leader, accepting an invitation, to take a year's contract in Australia…

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A City Band Empty Rotundas

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 4

Newcastle has bands in some of its suburbs. The City itself has only band rotundas. A band is essential to the open…

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Progress of West Wallsend Band Annual Meeting

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

The report of the West Wallsend Band presented by the secretary (Mr. T. Meredith) at the annual meeting was adopted…

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Dance Band Leader's Contract

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 10

London, January 5.—A 12 months' engagement in London will prevent Brian Lawrence, the dance band leader, accepting an invitation to take a year's contract…

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Woman's Realm on Holidays The Family at the Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 January 1937 · page 13

WELL, I am glad I'm up those stairs Fancy a few stairs making me puff like that, can't be as young as I…

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Moving Pictures in Schools Canberra

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 7

Unless a suitable scheme is submitted to the Commonwealth by the States, there is little likelihood that the Federal Government will assist…

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Narrow Escapes Five Trapped in Blazing Theatre PERTH

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 9

During a fire which practically wiped out the main street in Bruce Rock yesterday, five persons had remarkable escapes when trapped in rooms above a…

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Boys' Band in Sydney

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 7

A few of the star piccolo players of the Adelaide Boys' Band, now in Sydney…

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From The Signal Box: Air Mail Pictures

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 5

Left: The signalmen's view from their box at Newcastle. Above: A signalman at work. The system is described in an accompanying article…

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Behaviour in Dance Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 11

Ernest O'Brien of Edward-street, Kurri Kurri, pleaded "Guilty" to a charge of offensive behaviour on December 24, at Abermain…

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Singleton Theatre to Be Rebuilt

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 16 January 1937 · page 18

An architect's drawing of what the Strand Theatre, John-street, Singleton, will look like when it is rebuilt. The theatre was bought recently by Messrs. Sanderson and Payne, who intend to spend £6000 on it. The plans provide for the latest design in…

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