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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1924

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Amusements To-night’s Pictures

The Daily Express · Thursday 3 January 1924 · page 2

The principal attraction at the pictures to-night will be “Hell’s Hole,” a drama in which Charles Jones takes the leading part. Jack Holt, in “The…

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Globe Theatre

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

The old Derby Wharf at Salem, Mass., has been rebuilt. Demolished about fifty years ago, it was reconstructed. Scenes in "Jova Head,"…

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Random Readings. the Chinese Theatre

The Tumut and Adelong Times · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 5

The theatre in China is the great national amusement, and the Chinese will attend a play that lasts for several days without getting the least…

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Theatre Employees. Preparing an Ultimatum. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 2

There is serious trouble between the Ward and Fuller theatre managements and their employees over alleged evasions of the industrial award and…

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Sandigo School Concert

Narandera Argus and Riverina Advertiser · Friday 4 January 1924 · page 6

Perhaps the most successful concert, aud certainly the most successful school concert, yet held at Sandigo was held in the Hall last Wednesday…

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To-night's Pictures

The Daily Express · Saturday 5 January 1924 · page 2

There was a good crowd at the Southern Cross Gardens last night when Mary Miles Minter's latest picture—"Tillyj[?]' was screened. An…

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Band Concert

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 2

The Wagga Brass Band gave a very successful recital in the Newtown Gardents last night. The weather was cool. and the garden was crowed. The…

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Wagga Brass Band

The Daily Express · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 2

Newtown Park was crowded last night when the Wagga Brass Band gave one of its popular recitals. conducted by Mt. C. Baker, the band…

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Amusements To-night's Pictures

The Daily Express · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 4

“The Shrlek of Araby.” featuring Ben Turpin, will be the principal attraction at the Southern Cross Gardens to-night. It is a Mack…

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Picture Theatre Fire Audience Stampedes. Melbourne

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 3

On Saturday night there was a sensation at the Liberty Picture Theatre, Fitzroy. Towards the end of the show a fire broke out in the machine room…

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Police Court To-day. Before Mr. MacDougal, P.M. One "drunk" forfeited his ball. an Old Offender Only 25 Years Old. Paid Nearly £70 in Fines

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 3

George Ernest Price pleaded guilty [?] being drunk, on 5th January, in [?] street, Wallendbeen. [?]e also pleaded guilty to using…

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Wtrelsss Concert

Daily Advertiser · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 2

Yesterday, for the first time, the music of a Wagga orchestra was broadcasted. Wireless Supplies had arranged a wireless concert at the…

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A Wireless Concert Treat at the Hospital

The Daily Express · Monday 7 January 1924 · page 2

The patients at the Wagga District Hospital had a treat yesterday afternoon when they were entertained to a wireless concert by the…

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Banned Pictures

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 4

A cable message from New York states that a nation wide movement to withdraw all films showing Mabel Normand and Edna Purviance is gaining…

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The Pictures

The Daily Express · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

“The. Shriek of Araby,” which was [?]he star item on the picture programme at the Southern Gross Gardens last night, was the cause of…

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Globe Theatre

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Tuesday 8 January 1924 · page 2

The much heralded Snowy Baker picture, "His Last Race," is scheduled for screening to-morrow (Wednesday) night at the Globe Theatre. This is…

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Amusements the Pictures

The Daily Express · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 2

At the Southern Cross Gardens, to-night, “The Go-Getter,” a film adaption of the famous novel of the name, by Peter B. Kyhe, will…

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Amusements To-nights Pictures

The Daily Express · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 2

Peter B Kyne is one of the best known and most popular of the modern American authors and in “The [?]tter” the [?] version of which…

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No Theatre Strike. Sydney

Daily Advertiser · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 4

All danger of a strike in the Ward Fuller Theatres is now past. Many nonunion employees at these theatres have joined the organisations connected with…

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Amusements the Pictures

The Daily Express · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 4

The feature attraction of the southern Cross Gardens to-night will be [?] of the sea featuring Lacy For [?] which was…

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