Merewether Band
Merewether Municipal Band, under the bandmaster (Mr. A. Hobson) will give a recital on Bar Beach to-morrow afternoon at 2.45. for the shark victim fund…
Continued on Trove, page 13 →Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts
Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937
1,141 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 6 of 58
Pictures Unpopular
The City Council does not approve of films being screened in the Town Hall—particularly films about Soviet Russia. Newcastle Trades Hall Council sought…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Band Subsidies Scheme Before Council Encourage Local Players
The possibility of arranging a systematic method of providing subsides for bands and artists taking part in afternoon and evening concerts on Newcastle…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Raise Loan for Theatre Job City Council Accepts Tender
Preparationa re being made by the City Council for the raising of a special loan of £12,675 for the remodelling of the Strand Theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Suggestions That Fast Bowlers Are Becoming A Dying Race Bumper Ball Now "Out of Bounds" Gentlemen's Agreements And The Umpires MELBOURNE
The present match in Melbourne has given rise to suggestions that fast bowlers are a dying race. We have witnessed such a change of ideas that now the so-called "bumper" is anathema…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →West Wallsend Band Campaign
With £150 as its objective, the West Wallsend Band Committee has begun a drive for funds to provide the bandsmen with new uniforms…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Each Ball Bowled Cost £265 MELBOURNE Wed
It coat £265 a ball to wind up the final Test match to-day when England's last two batsmen were caught off the first…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strand Theatre Legal Processes Will Delay Start Repayment Arrangements
Although the tender has been let, and the City Council's approval given, it will probably be three months before the legal processes necessary to permit the…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Australian Pictures U.S.A. Film Man Interested Sydney
The prospect of producing moving pictures in Australia will be explored by Mr. P. Reismnn, Vice-President of…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →Snatched From Dance by Fall of Snow Vienna
Workmen clearing away deep show outside an hotel at Bad Anssee, a mountain resort, to-day found the body of a girl in fashionable evening dress…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →St. John's Social Club Ball at Town Hall in June
To promote social activities among the Church people and to help the general funds of St. John's Church, Cook's Hill, a social club was formed at a…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Show Dance at West Maitland
A show dance, organised by the Secretary (Miss Nel Young) and the Treasurer (Miss Gladys Batty) of the Maitland Spinster's Committee, was held in the…
Continued on Trove, page 14 →Beating the Time in Church Like Concert, Says Minister Sydney
The practice of beating time during Church music was criticised by a delegate at the Methodist Conference…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →A.B.C. Dance Band to Be Dismissed Symphony Orchestras to Be Reorganised Melbourne
Because of the dispute over audition tests and contracts, the A.B.C. will reorganise its symphony orchestras in Melbourne and Sydney…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Strand Theatre Remodelling
FRONT ASPECT of the Strand Theatre as it will appear when remodelled. Approximately 12,000 will be spent on alterations to the theatre. Work will not start until April or May…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →"Off with the Dance" Village That Goes Now to Church
"Off with the Dance. Let joy be more refined." This is how b well-known quotation is paraphrased in the leading…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →'The Gorgeous Hussy' All-star Cast at Civic Theatre
"The Gorgeous Hussy," at the Civic Theatre lacks one quality which would have made it a great film—it fails…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Now He's a Polo Player Joe E. Brown at the Theatre Royal
Polo is taken very seriously by Americans. To them it is more than a game—it is an international contest. It is surprising, therefore, to see…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Social and Dance Musical Programme
The Naval, Military and Veterans' Association held its 41st quarterly social and dance in the Memorial Hall, Perkin-street, on Saturday night. Mr. W. Nye is…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →At Dance Halls Prohibition of Liquor Request to Premier Sydney
Stressing the abuse of liquor at dance halls, speakers at a deputation from the New South Wales Temperance Alliance, comprising many Church leaders, asked…
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