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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1920

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To-morrow Night's "Popular" Dance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 2

Not only are the prices popular for to-morrow night's dance in the Leeton School of Arts, but the orchestra also. The splendid music rendered…

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M.I.A. Footballers Successful Dance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 2

On Wednesday night the M.I.A. Football Club held a most successful dance in the Leeton School of Arts. Although the dancers were a bit…

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The Golf Ball [?] Big Social Success

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 4

The golfers' ball is always one of the social successes of the season at Cootamundra. It was to have been held the first night of the big tourney…

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Concert at Winchendon Vale

Coolamon-Ganmain Farmers' Review · Friday 11 June 1920 · page 2

A hall that it set mi a hill cannot be hid, and neither can its imperfections, was the burden of the remarks of Mr. Barton, president of the Winchendon…

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Shots at a Dance. Guest Wounded. Young Man Arrested. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Monday 14 June 1920 · page 2

Shooting at a birthday party at Hurstville early this morning broke up an entertainment. Joseph Smith, 25, of Edgecliff-road, Woollahra, was…

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Globe Pictures, Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 15 June 1920 · page 2

Billie Burke in "Good Gracious, Annabelle!" a film version of one of the most amusing plays ever produced in America or Australia, will be…

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Worldwide Concert. Madame Melea's Proposal. London

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 15 June 1920 · page 2

The proposal of Madame Melba to give a concert to the world by means of wireless telephony has created intense interest…

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City Concert Band Social

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 June 1920 · page 2

The Wagga City Concert Band held its third social of this season's series in the Masonic Hall last evening. It proved very successful, there being…

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Pierrot Ball

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 16 June 1920 · page 2

A Pierrot Ball was held in the Junee Railway Institute Hall on Monday night last, in aid of the additions to St. Luke's Sunday School. The hall…

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Items of News. Half-holiday Dance

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 17 June 1920 · page 2

In the Masonic-Hall, Wagga, last evening, the Half-Holiday Tennis Club held its second dance of this season's series. Mr. H. Berrigan (piano) and…

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Globe Pictures, Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 18 June 1920 · page 3

Tom Mix certainly makes pictures true of life. An incident demonstrating this occurs in "The Coming of the Law." He shows a small town…

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Globe Pictures, Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 2

To-morrow (Wednesday) night will be screened "Here Comes the Bride," a play of matrimonial mix ups done to a brisk comedy tune. It's crammed…

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New York Dance Halls. a Baptist Pastor's Charges

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 22 June 1920 · page 3

The Rev. John Roach Straton, pastor of the fashionable Calvary Baptist Church, has become in a night one of the chief figures in the controversy…

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Hospital Ball

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 2

The annual Wagga and District Hospital ball, to be held on July 1 and 2, promises to be a huge success. A strong body of women, under the…

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At the Theatre

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 2

Again to-night the Prince was greeted enthusiastically by a closely packed crowd outside Her Majesty's Theatre where the gala performance was held…

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Melba's Concert. Heard at Great Distance. Liner's Report. London

Daily Advertiser · Wednesday 23 June 1920 · page 2

The liner Victoria reports that when she was 1033 miles out at sea she heard the concert given by Madame Melba by means of wireless telephony…

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St. Michael's Tennis Dance

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 24 June 1920 · page 2

St. Michael's Tennis Club held a dance and euchre party in the Masonic Hall, Wagga, last evening. The attendance was estimated at about 200…

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Globe Pictures, Leeton

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 2

Who am I? George Walsh has a lot of trouble answering this question in "Putting One, Over," at the Globe Theatre to-night. He boards a train…

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I.o.o.f. Dance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 2

The second annual dance of the indenpendent Order of Oddfellows was held last Wednesday night, in the Leeton School of Arts. Agood…

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Yanco. a Brillant Dance. In Aid of Leeton Hospital

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 25 June 1920 · page 2

What may be considered the dance of the season was held in the School of Arts, Yanco on Wednesday night It was the effort of the trainees and…

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