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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1947

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Gympie Cattle Get St. Vitus' Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 1

BRISBANE, Monday.—A mystifying discase among dairy cattle, affecting their nervous system is causing alarm in the Gympie district…

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Suburban and District New Uniforms For Merewether Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 15 April 1947 · page 5

A set of Air Force uniforms has been bought for Merewether District Band. They will be braided next month. An appeal for funds…

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Gates for Band Rotunda

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 2

The Works Committee will recommend to Greater Newcastle Council that it erect gates to prevent children from entering Newcastle Beach…

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Cultural Centre Aided By Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 April 1947 · page 8

Mrs. John Watson and Mrs. Beryl Wolfenden arranged a concert held yesterday afternoon which raised £7/9/ for the Women's Auxiliary of…

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Discuss Better Band Standard

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 2

The Mayor of Greater Newcastle (Ald. Quinlan) has called a conference of all bandmasters in the Newcastle area, to be held at the…

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City Band for Anzac Services

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 8

Newcastle City Ex-Servicemen's and Citizens' Band will attend an early morning commemorative service at Lambton Memorial Gates on…

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Getting Ready for Film Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 6

Olga San Juan, a Latin from Brooklyn, gets attention from the hairdresser before she goes into a torrid dance routine with Fred Astaire for Irving Berlin's picture, "Blue Skies," Olga, daughter of Puertan Rican parents, became the last dancing partner of…

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Church Concert at Wallsend

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 17 April 1947 · page 5

The Women's Guild of St. Like's Church of England held a successful concert in the Parish Hall. The programme was compered by…

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City Band Has Boom Season

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 6

The busiest month since it was formed three years ago will begin tor Newcastle City ex Servicemen and Citizens' Band on Sunday, when…

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Combined Catholic Charities Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 8

Debutantes will be presented to the Bishop of Maitland (Most Rev. Dr. E. Gleeson, C.SS.R) when the Combined Catholic Charities ball is held…

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Limbless Diggers' Concert

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 18 April 1947 · page 8

The sister-in-charge and inmates of the Dudley Home have been invited by limbless soldiers to be their guests on Sunday night when they…

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Ex-servicemen's Band Programme

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 6

Newcastle City Ex-servicemen's Band will lead Hamilton R.S.L. to the war memorial in Gregson Park on Sunday…

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Robeson Concert Banned

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 19 April 1947 · page 3

NEW YORK, Friday.—Permission for the great Negro singer, Paul Robeson, to appear in the City Hall at Peoria (Illinois) tonight has been cancelled by the Mayor of the City. Mayor Triebel said his action was…

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Merewether Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 5

Merewether District Band, conducted by Mr. W. N. Morgan took part in the Anzac Services at Merewether on Sunday…

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Wallsend Concerts

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 22 April 1947 · page 5

To assist the Memorial Library fund, Wallsend Parents and Citizens' Association will hold a concert in the Masonic Hall to-night…

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Band's Programme For Anzac Day

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 7

Newcastle City Ex-Servicemen's and Citizens' Band has a full programme for Anzac Day. At 8.30 a.m. the band will assist at…

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Film Girls Coached in Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 8

Roberta Joney (centre) coaches two dancers in the eccentricities of an Eastern dance for the Paramount film, "Calcutta." A deft twist of the wrist means that they are looking their hearts—their love belongs to another…

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Cliff Gear Used in Rescue at Theatre

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 10

SYDNEY—Cliff rescue gear was required to lower to the ground a man badly injured in a fall on the roof of the Minerva…

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Goossens Cheered at Final Concert in U.S.A.

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 3

CINCINNATI, April 22. A.A.P.— Eugene Goossens' 10 years of scholarly and inspired direction of Cincinnati's Symphony Orchestra, was…

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School Concert At Wallsend

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 23 April 1947 · page 15

There was a large attendance at the Wallsend Masonic Hall last night when the P. and C. Association conducted the annual school concert…

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