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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1950

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Big Crowd At Sunday Concert

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 7 August 1950 · page 10

A capacity audience attended the City Hall yesterday for the second indoor winter concert presented by the Newcastle…

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Wallsend Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 5

THE 21ST ANNUAL Wallsend Hospital Ball under the auspices of the Women's Hospital Auxiliary and the Wallsend and…

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Kurri Brass Band Elects Officers

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 8 August 1950 · page 9

Officers elected at the annual meeting of Kurri Brass Band were: President, Mr. A. Hewitson; vice-president, Mr…

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Club's Fancy Dress Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 5

Marcus Clark's Social Club held on fancy dress dance at Legion House last night. Among those present were (left to right): Mrs…

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Theatre Manager Is Gaoled

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 2

SYDNEY: Royston Frederick Darling, former proprietor of the Tatier Theatre, was sentenced by…

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Church Ball At City Hall

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 6

At St. Mark's church of England Islington, ball at the City Hall last night, were debutantes Eileen Smith, Dawn Vernon, Joy…

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Floral Festival :: St. Mark's Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 9

Top left: The Deputy Lord Mayor (Ald. Boa) examines a sample of the cooking at the first post-war series of cooking demonstrations arranged by the Gas Company at Winn's Shortland Rooms yesterday. In the picture, from left to right: Misses Nola Stagg, Betty Marsden, Joy Haggerty (who gave a talk at the demonstration), Ald, Boa and Mesdames G. Burgess and A. Stevens. Centre left: At St. Mark's Islington Church Ball at the City Hall last night: Mrs. G. Mullins, the Lady Mayoress (Mrs. H. D. Quinlan), the Rev. J. A. Smith (Islington) and Mrs. Smith. Below left: Misses Pat Mitchell and Joan Fryer in between dances at St. Mark's Ball last night. Top right: The organiser for the Cultural Centre…

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Gay Costumes At Fancy Dress Dance

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 6

Sheiks, pirates, moustached "schoolboys," jesters, and harem girls were among the crowd at the fancy dress dance organised…

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Colourful Frocks At St. Mark's Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 9 August 1950 · page 6

Flower girls in blue, lemon, mauve, green and satin edged with silver preceded the eight debut-pink figured organdie and pageboys in pale blue antes on to the stage at Islington St. Marks' Church…

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Georgetown C. of E. Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 8

The hopscotch polka, danced by 30 pupils from Miss Jessie Brownlie's studio, was a feature of the Georgetown C. of E. ball,…

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Former Theatre Owner Gaoled For Tax Breach

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 10 August 1950 · page 7

SYDNEY, Wednesday.—Judge Curlewis to-day sentenced Royston Frederick Darling, former proprietor of the Tatler Theatre,…

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At Inter-Collegiate Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 4

At the Inter-collegiate Ball at Newcastle Teachers' College last night were (left to right) Misses Joyce Baker, of Grafton. Muriel…

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Lord Mayoral Ball Made £140

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 6

The Lord Mayoral Ball for 1950 had returned a profit of £140/- 12/3, the Lord Mayor (Ald. Quinlan) said yesterday…

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Belmont Scouts' Dance For Building Fund

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 11 August 1950 · page 5

Belmont First Scout Committee held a successful "Mad Hatters" dance in the Masonic Hall in aid of the Scout Hall building fund…

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Charlestown Spring Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 August 1950 · page 10

A Spring Ball will be held in Charlestown Literary Institute in aid of St. Joseph's Church on Sept. 1. A "Belle of the…

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Call Meeting on Community Theatre Plan

The Newcastle Sun · Saturday 12 August 1950 · page 12

The president of the Newcastle Dramatic Art Club (Mr. C. Chapman) announced this afternoon that a meeting would…

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Russian's Work Banned By Orchestra

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 14 August 1950 · page 1

LONDON, Aug. 13. A.A.P.— The Austrian-born Rudolf Schwarz, director-conductor of the Bourne-mouth Municipal Orchestra, banned…

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3000 Pictures Chosen For 'Sun' Art Show

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 15 August 1950 · page 4

A selection of 3000 pictures has been made by the judges in "The Newcastle Sun" 1950 Children's Art Show for exhibition in the City Hall supper room from Aug. 28 to Sept. 2…

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Ball-To-Ball Talks Not Television Lead

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.—Mr. R. F. Mogg, Vice-president of the Australian Federation of Broadcasting Stations, to-day denied claims…

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Laborer In Court On Theatre Charge

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 16 August 1950 · page 3

SYDNEY: Arrested at gunpoint last night 22-year-old laborer, Barry Frost, Linden St., Fairfield, was charged at…

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