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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1909

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The Ball

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 6 January 1909 · page 2

The ball at night, notwithstanding the high temperature, was well patronised, no loss than 47 couples being present, including visitors from Trangie, Narromine, Wongsrbon and…

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The Town Band

The Wellington Times · Thursday 7 January 1909 · page 4

Some time ago Bandmaster Laing of the Wellington Town Band sent in his resignation to the committee on account of the unsatisfactory financial…

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St. Vitus' Dance. a Marvellous Cure

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 9 January 1909 · page 8

Thirty-one years have elapsed since Mrs. A[?]n Griffiths, of No. 2 Garden Avenue, Glebe, came to this country from Shropshire, and five years since…

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The Concert

The Western Herald · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 4

The Concert Committee in connection with the Hospital Benefit on Anniversary night, January 26, has decided upon giving a liberal and varied entertainment. The…

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Concert and Social at Brocklechurst

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 4

A CONCERT and social in aid the finals of the Brocklehurst Cricket Club was held in the School of Arts, Brocklehurst, on Wednesday night. The concert was not [?] well attended a…

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How to Succeed on the Concert Platform

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 16 January 1909 · page 7

THERE is no royal road to success on the concert platform any more than there is in any other learned or artistic profession. Yet it is quite remarkable how many…

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West's Pictures

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 20 January 1909 · page 2
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

MR. T. J. WEST, of London, the proprietor of popular picture shows in England, Scotland, and all the States of the Commonwealth and New Zealand, has decided to pay a visit to…

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West's Pictures

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 4

The programme to be presented at the Protestant Hall on Thursday next by the West's Picture Entertainment Co. will serve to show how practically…

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The Town Band

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 4

A meeting of the committee of the Town Band was held in the Council Chambers to consider the financial position of the band. It will be…

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In the Shoemaker's Shop About the Band

The Wellington Times · Thursday 21 January 1909 · page 3

THE Youthful Australian was evidently in a musical frame of mind as he sauntered up and assumed his customary attitude against the door-post…

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West's Pictures

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 4
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

WEST'S pictures have established a high degree of popularity oil over the Commonwealth, and deservedly so, for the entertainment presented by Mr. T. J. West is always of such first-class…

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Another Theatre

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 3

Sydney is promised another theatre. Mr. W. Anderson, one of the most energetic caterers of amusement in this or any other country, is responsible for the…

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Moving and Talking Pictures

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 7

Pictures that both move and talk were promised us as soon as the phonograph and the cinematograph became accomplished facts. It has…

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The Concert

The Western Herald · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 4

The attraction for the evening will be the Drawing-room Concert, &c., in Fitzgerald's Hall. The ladies and gentlemen who are rendering assistance in that quarter, are…

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Melba's Concert

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 23 January 1909 · page 4

It will be seen by a notice published elsewhere that the box plan for Madame Melba's concert will be opened at Mr. G. H. Taylor[?]'s office on Saturday, the 1st of…

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West's Pictures

The Wellington Times · Monday 25 January 1909 · page 2

West's Pictures, direct from the Sydney Glacarium, will pay a visit to Wellington on Thursday next, January 28, at the Protestant Hall. West's…

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West's Pictures

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 27 January 1909 · page 2
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

AT the Masonic Hall to-night (Tuesday) and to-morrow night (Wednesday), West's pictures will picture, and when they do picture they picture the bust of all. A special feature is the…

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