On With the Dance!
We'll have a good time to-night. I've bought two tickets for the pictures. But we've seen this week's…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1948
455 stories in Newcastle & Lake Macquarie's papers · page 1 of 23
Wallabies Practise With Wet and Muddy Ball
EASTBOURNE, Friday (from E. W. Kann).—The Wallabies practised yesterday with a ball soaked in water and smeared with mud. This was done because rain had been falling in London, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Band Recitals at Beach
Merewether District Band, which will compete at Toowoomba band contests at Easter, will give recitals on Newcastle Beach to-morrow at…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Murder At Dance "Herald" Service
LONDON, Jan. 2.—A squad of detectives is searching for a tall, handsome stranger who is believed to have strangled and battered to…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Merewether Band At Beach
Merewether District Band, under Bandmaster W. N. Morgan, played on Newcastle Beach yesterday afternoon and last night, before large…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Dances To Pay For Orchestra And Conductor
Greater Newcastle Council last night approved a recommendation that City Hall dance profits be placed in a trust fund for the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Dance Profits For Orchestra Nucleus
Profits from Saturday night dances at the City Hall would only be the nucleus of a fund necessary to support the…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Went for Ball, Electrocuted
COFF'S HARBOUR, Wednesday.—Robert Patrick O'Connor, 11, of Coff's Harbour Jetty, was electrocuted to-day when he crawled under…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Nucleus of an Orchestra Fund
The City Council is to be congratulated on its decision to set aside as the nucleus of a fund for an orchestra profits from the use…
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The Sydney Symphony Orchestra, under the direction of Eugene Goossens, will begin a conntry tour next month…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Sydney Orchestra To Tour Country
The Sydney Symphony Orchestra would begin a country tour next month, under the direction of Eugene Goossens. It will give a…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Cessnock Cellist in Symphony Concert
In the Australian Broadcasting Commission symphony concert on Saturday night, the cello section was led by the young Bellbird…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Lindwall's Clash With The No-Ball Rule
SYDNEY (By R. S. Whitington): Newsreel pictures taken at the S.C.G. last Saturday show Ray Lindwall bowled 10 no-balls in 10 deliveries, without being "called" by Test' umpire, George Borwick. Lindwall's sliding back foot several times was between 18 inches and two feet over the line…
Continued on Trove, page 12 →Concerts Not "Highbrow"—A.B.C. Officer
Far from being "highbrow," the Australian Broadcasting Commission's series of subscription celebrity concerts in Newcastle would…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Poor Support For A.B.C. Concerts
The A.B.C hopes to convince more Newcastle people this year that greater enjoyment can be obtained by attending orchestral and recitalist concers than by listening to them on the air…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Cessnock Wants A.B.C. Orchestra
Cessnock Council will ask the local branch of C.E.M.A. to cooperate in representations to have the A.B.C. Symphony…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →A.B.C. Orchestra Visit Sought
Cessnock Council decided to ask the local branch of the C.E.M.A. to cooperate in efforts to secure a visit by the A.B.C. Symphony…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →This Beats the Ban-d
NEW YORK, Thurs.: To beat a ban by the American Federation of Musicians on the use of local concert halls, Metropolitan opera soprano Helen Jepson uses a lions' cage as her…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Musical Body Might Stage Concerts Here
Several members of the Musica Viva, one of the most active Sydney cultural bodies, will confer with representatives of musical societies in Newcastle next week on the possibility of staging a…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Thieves Raid Police Ball "Herald" Service
NEW YORK, Jan. 10.—Thieves at the Police Benevolent Association ball stole the supper funds, badges and £250 worth…
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