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Dubbo & the Western Plains · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1909

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His Majesty's Moving Theatre Wellington

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 1 May 1909 · page 4

Philip Lytton, with his gigantic enterprise, His Majesty's Moving Theatre, smashed even his record receipts of last year's western tour last night at…

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Tennis Club Dance

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 2

The Dubbo Lawn Tennis Club dance, which was held in the Masonic Hall last Friday, in aid of the new club courts, was a great success. Over 80 couples were…

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The Moving Theatre

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 2

To-night His Majesty's Moving Theatre, with which Mr. Philip Lytton has scored so many successes, will again open on the old site at the corner of Wingewarra and…

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His Majesty's Moving Theatre. Opening To-night

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Wednesday 5 May 1909 · page 2

MR. PHILLIP LYTTON'S enormous enterprise, His Majesty's Moving Theatre, opens their Dubbo show week season to-night in Charles Holloway's greatest success "The Price of Sin."…

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Amusements. His Majesty's Moving Theatre

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 6

HIS Majesty's Moving Theatre opened here on Tuesday under the direction of Mr. Philip Lytton. The opening piece staged was 'The Price of Sin,' a drama in four acts, which was…

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Murders in New Caledonia. The Red Band Of the North

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 5

A SERIES of terrible crimes was revealed at the Quarter Sessions, at Noumea, New Caledonia, just ended. The perpetrators will be henceforth known as the 'Red Band of the North.'…

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The Ddbbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate. Saturday, May 8. 1909. DUBBO P., A. AND H. Association. the Annual Show. Official Opening by the Premier. List of Officers:—President, Mr. F. Mack vice presidents, Messrs. T. Baird, J. Stevenson, 3. A. Ryan, T. Wilkins, J. D. MoKay, and H. Strahorn; hon. treasurer, Mr. G. I Sefton; auditors, Messrs. A. Tyers Wood and J. E. Serisier, committee, Messrs. H. B. Pinnington, T. R. Baird, M. Barlow, A. Craig, T. M. Scott, R. G. Dulbnnty, I. Roberts, J. Bell (Narran), W. W. Penzer, J. Bell (Baltadoran), F. I. Body, J. Heane, J. Field, T. D. Palmer, T. B. U. Sloman, D. Kilby, J. G. Brawn, J. A. Busby, G. Made, A. Warfel, E. H. Utley, H. C. S[?]horn, T. M. Smith, R. Penzer, W. F. McManamey, J. N. Payne, W. W. Baird, F. L. Ryrie, W. A. Gardiner, F. C. Wake, C. Cadell, S. J. Tink, J. O. Palmer, G. Carrie, J. Rutherford, junr, T. R. Cleaver, C. Brownlow, F. Stones, J. A. Ball

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 8 May 1909 · page 4

One ahow in a sense is like another show, yet the great event of the year in a community each as ours, is also, in another sense, ever new and always welcomed. So…

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Miss Rooney's Concerts

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Wednesday 12 May 1909 · page 2

Mr. Chris. Young, after an absence of 4½ years, in in Dubbo on Tuesday in connection with Miss Kate Rooney's concert, which will take place some time in August. Mr…

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Ball Dresses

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 May 1909 · page 3

Mrs. A'Beckett., Yellow silk with a black chiffon overdress. Mrs. C. H. Barton, Black sequined net…

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The Ball

The Wellington Times · Thursday 13 May 1909 · page 3

The annual ball was held on Tuesday night in Ferguson and Sons' skating rink, the interior of which had been transformed with greenery and…

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The Life Tom, in Theatre Fires

The Cobar Herald · Friday 14 May 1909 · page 7

The terrible theatre fire at Acapulco. Mexico, in which 300 people are said to have been burned to death, is one of the most destructive on record; indeed the "Westminster Gazette. In 1845, 1,670 persons lost their lives in a Canton theatre; in 1872, 600 in a theatre at Tientsin; and 794 in the Ring Theatre…

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His Majesty's Movimg Theatre

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 4

Very great interest centres around the Show week season of Mr. Philip Lytton's gigantic enterprise—His Majesty's Moving Theatre. Judging from our exchanges…

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A Directoire Theatre-bag

The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 2

The revival of Directoire modes has brought with it modern replicas of the fascinating: little handkerchief and shoe-bags that ladies of the…

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The Lite Toll in Theatre Fires

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 7

The terrible theatre fire at Acapulco, Mexico, in Which 300 people are said to have been burned to death, is one of the most destructive on record: Indeed,…

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Gone with the Fairies. an Irish Superstition. How a Dance Ended

The Western Herald · Saturday 15 May 1909 · page 3

Superstition is still deeply ingrained in the Irish character, as was shown at Galway on February 23, in the course of a trial in which two brothers —…

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Euchre Party and Dance

The Wellington Times · Monday 17 May 1909 · page 2

A euchre party and dance is to be held in the Oddfellows' Hall on Thursday, 27th inst., in connection with the Wellington Bowling Club, and as the…

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West's Pictures

The Wellington Times · Thursday 20 May 1909 · page 4

By our advertising columns it will be seen that the famous West's Pictures will appear at the Protestant Hall on Wednesday, May 26th, with a complete…

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The Dance

The Western Herald · Saturday 22 May 1909 · page 4

A Picnic race-meeting and a dance in the evening are a thoroughly Australian idea of sport and pleasure, and nowhere throughout our great continent have Australian…

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West's Pictures

Dubbo Dispatch and Wellington Independent · Saturday 22 May 1909 · page 4
Also in The Dubbo Liberal and Macquarie Advocate

BY our advertising columns it will be seen that the famous West's pictures from Sydney will appear at the Masonic Hall on Monday and Tuesday, 24th and 25th, with a complete change…

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