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Queanbeyan & Braidwood · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1902

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The Eva Mylott Concert Company

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 1 January 1902 · page 2

Miss Mylott, the popular Sydney vocalist, with a Company of her own, including Miss Julia Davies (Operatic Soprano, recently touring as Prima Donna to the Musgrove…

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Hospital Ball at Duntroon

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 7 January 1902 · page 3

ON Friday 3rd January, shearing operations were concluded at Duntroon after a somewhat prolonged run of nine weeks. Duntroon shed is fitted up with 16 Wolsely…

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Miss Eva Mylott's Grand Concert Company

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 10 January 1902 · page 2

MISS EVA MYLOTT who gives a. concert in Queanbeyan next Monday night, and appears in Bungendore the following night (14th) has been recognised in musical…

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Miss Mylott's Concert Company

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 14 January 1902 · page 2

A LARGE, appreciative and fashionable audience greeted Miss Mylott last night on the occasion of her first visit to Queanbeyan. It was half-past eight before the…

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Miss Mylott's Concert

Queanbeyan Age · Wednesday 15 January 1902 · page 2

The long-looked for concert by the Company of which Miss Eva Mylott was the principal, eventuated on Monday evening in the Protestant Hall, and the audience filled…

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Miss Eva Mylott’s Concert Company

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 17 January 1902 · page 2

On Wednesday night Miss Eva Mylott and her Sydney company gave a highly successful concert in the Institute to a crowded and fashionable audience. The…

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Hanging Pictures

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 31 January 1902 · page 2

If possible, only oil paintings should be hung in one room, water colours in another, etchings, photogravures, &c, in another. Where one's house is not large…

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The Chinese Theatre

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 4 February 1902 · page 4

THE Chinese are passionately fond of theatrical amusements. The Imperial Government encourages this species of exhibition, though its generosity does…

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Polyphone Concert

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 15 February 1902 · page 2

The Rev. D. A. Gilsenan, of Yass, who has been giving concerts with his polyphone at Braidwood, Yass, and other places, will give an entertainment in the Protestant…

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The Billiard Ball

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 18 March 1902 · page 4

Few persons who wield a billiard cu[?] are aware of the time trouble, and expense of making the ivory spheres. The billiard ball in its natural state is the principal means of…

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Her Majesty’s Theatre

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 2

The destruction by fire of Her Majesty’s Theatre Throws five hundred people out of employment. The loss is estimated at £35,000. The vestibule escaped, bat the…

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Destruction of Her Majesty's Theatre by Fire

The Queanbeyan Observer · Tuesday 25 March 1902 · page 2

EARLY on Sunday morning Her Majesty's Theatre was burnt out, and the celebrated play "Ben Hur" which began with a blaze of success ended with a blaze of disaster…

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Disastrous Fire in Sydney. Her Majesty's Theatre Gutted

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Wednesday 26 March 1902 · page 2

Early on Sunday morning Her Majesty's Thratre was burnt out, and the celebrated play "Ben Hur" which began with a blaze of success ended with a blaze of disaster. Fortunately the outbreak occurred…

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Convent Concert

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 25 April 1902 · page 2

THE large audience which greeted the youthful performers at the entertainment got up in aid of St. B[?]edict's Convent School, on Wednesday evening last, must…

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The Juvenile Ball

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 2

Which nowadays invariably follows an adult one in Queanbeyan took place last night and was, as its predecessor, a marked success. Prettily dressed children from…

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School of Arts Ball

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 2

THE ball held in the Protestant Hall in aid of the funds of the School of Arts was most successful, both from a social and financial point of view. For some…

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Short Story In a Boat Swing. Grand Carnival in the Zoo Grounds. Royal Artillery Band. Illuminations

The Queanbeyan Observer · Friday 2 May 1902 · page 1

SUCH, with much more of a like nature, could be read on the large pink posters outside the Zoo grounds at Railton, a town…

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School of Arts Ball

Queanbeyan Age · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 2

The above eventuated at the protestant Hall on last Wednesday night. The hall brilliantly lighted from end to end in addition to the artistical decorations effected by…

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The Romance Our First Century. {Copyright.) VIVID & Realistic Pictures of the Past. Part L

The Braidwood Dispatch and Mining Journal · Saturday 3 May 1902 · page 1

The historian who furnishes his readers with no more attractive material than the record of political facts and events who, careful as to dates and names, fails to carry…

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The Annual Hospital Ball

The Braidwood and Araluen Express and People's Advocate · Friday 9 May 1902 · page 2

The matter of the annual Hospital ball which it will be recollected lapsed last year camp up for an informal discussion at last meeting of the committee. The feeling…

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