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Newcastle & Lake Macquarie · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1954

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Band Leader, Manager Plan To Swap Wives

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 7

HOLLYWOOD, Thurs. (A.A.P.). —Bandleader Billy May planned to complete the last act of a real-life Hollywood script today which calls for him and his former manager to exchange wives…

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Theatre Cashier Held Up; Robbed

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 1 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday. —A bandit to-night held up the cashier of the Park Theatre and stole £25…

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Army Taking Band Boys At 15

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Wednesday 6 January 1954 · page 2

CANBERRA, Tuesday.— Band boys would be enlisted in the Army at a minimum age of 15 instead of 15½, the…

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Band Music In Korea

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 3

Private Charles Sargeson, left, of Tamworth, and Private T. S. Brigan, of Glen Innes, at band practice. They are…

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Leading Reds May Attend Royal Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 8 January 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY: The possibility that several leading Communists will be invited to the Royal Ball at Sydney Town Hall on Feb. 5 has alarmed some members of the State…

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Denial On Royal Ball Guests

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1954 · page 6

SYDNEY, Friday.—A Communist alderman of the Sydney City Council, Aid. T. Wright, denied to-day that any…

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Concert For Madame Le Patourel

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 5

About 30 leading Newcastle artists combined to give a farewell concert at Central Methodist Mission Hall yesterday…

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Concert As Farewell

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Monday 11 January 1954 · page 3

Madame le Patoural, with some of the artists and friends who made possible a farewell concert for her at Central…

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Beach Girl Quest Finalist Is State Dance Champion

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1954 · page 3

Today's finalist in the Newcastle Surf Club's "Beach Girl of the Year" contest—20-year old Dawn Byrnes—is National Dancing Champion of New South Wales…

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Public Not To See Royal Ball

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1954 · page 3

SYDNEY, Wednesday.— The public will not be allowed into the galleries at Sydney Town Hall during the Lord…

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Band Man's "Holiday"

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 20 January 1954 · page 23

Mr. W. Brown of Merewether faces a busy programme in Queensland next week…

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Theatre Minds Children

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Thursday 21 January 1954 · page 5

Minding small children while their mothers are shopping is one of the unofficial duties of the three usherettes…

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Dance Of A Snake Charmer

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

DANCER Moira Claux, 22, modern expressive dancer doing a "snake charmer's dance" at the Home and Housewives' Exhibition in the Sydney Town Hall…

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Dance Club Quiz In Murder Hunt

The Newcastle Sun · Friday 22 January 1954 · page 5

LONDON,, Fri., (A.A.P.): Police yesterday continued their inquiries at an old-time dancing club at Coventry in a search for the knife and hammer murderer, of 43-year-old…

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City Theatre Usherette In Beach Girl Contest

The Newcastle Sun · Monday 25 January 1954 · page 3

Eighteen-year-old Maureen Holmgreen—today's finalist in Newcastle Surf Lifesaving Club's "Beach Girl of the Year" contest—is an usherette at a city theatre. Maureen, brunette and…

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New Move For Band

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 3

NEWCASTLE Council of Ex-service Organisations will ask the Prime Minister's Department for…

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Marquis Regrets Lavish Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 11

LONDON: Short, slim 65-year-old Marquis de Cuevas, who last September gave "the ball of the century" at Biarritz, France, has arrived in London—still bitterly regretting it. The ball, estimated to…

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Band Breaks Ranks As Queen Appears

Newcastle Morning Herald and Miners' Advocate · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 1

DUNEDIN, Jan. 25.—The proximity of the Queen and the Duke of Edinburgh proved too much for the discipline of the Dunedin ladies' brass band at Palmerston to-day. The 37 members of the…

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Japs On The Pin-Ball

The Newcastle Sun · Tuesday 26 January 1954 · page 4

TOKIO: Japan will soon have a million pin-ball machines, according to a taxation department…

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£10,000 For Strand Theatre Renovations

The Newcastle Sun · Wednesday 27 January 1954 · page 2

Renovations to the council-owned Strand Theatre, costing about £10,000, will be carried out over the next…

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