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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1954

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New Theatre for Hospital The architect to the Tumbarumba district Hospital (Mr. S. J. O'Hailoran) has been instructed to prepare plans and specifications of a new theatre for the hospital

Tumbarumba Times · Thursday 25 March 1954 · page 1

These plans and specifications are to be in accordance with the mutually agreed requirements and, formally approved, work is to be commenced almost immediately. This was stated by the chairman of Directors of the…

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Tumut Town Band

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 4

Two new members of the Band are Messrs. Eric Hopper and Bob Beckhouse. The former is a new arrival in Tumut. Actually, he is…

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Easter Dinner Dance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 2

Tickets are now available for the Dinner Dance on Easter Monday night being held by the Ladies Committee of the…

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Younger Set to Hold Dance

Cootamundra Herald · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 2

A meeting of the Younger Set was held at the CWA Rooms last Monday and there were 26 members present. The president,…

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Ganmain St Patrick’s Debutante Ball Debutantes Received by Bishop of Wagga

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 6

Ganmain was again the district’s centre, as it has been for the past 50 years, for the social celebration of St. Patrick’s Day. Race meetings and other festivities…

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Top Town Concert

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 26 March 1954 · page 2

The Top Town Concert to be held at the Montreal Theatre on Wednesday next, March 31, promises to be an excellent night's…

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"Lost" boy was at the pictures

Daily Advertiser · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Sunday: A two-and-a-half-year-old boy sat in a city theatre yesterday while his frantic…

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Shock Return From Dance Cottage Destroyed by Fire

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 29 March 1954 · page 1

A fire early on Saturday morning destroyed the home of a soldier settler at Wantabadgery East, near Junee…

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Jazz Band Highly Commended

Cootamundra Herald · Tuesday 30 March 1954 · page 2

The Cootamundra Jazz Band is proving one of the best advertisements this town has had for many years and following is a…

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Tennis Notes Easter Dinner Dance

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 2

The tickets are now starting to sell for Easter Monday night so anyone planning to go are reminded to get their ticket…

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Fund Launched for Australian Theatre

Daily Advertiser · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 1

SYDNEY, Thursday: A fund to encourage the promotion and development of drama., opera and ballet in…

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Wallaroobie Red Cross Ball (By the Publicity Officer)

Coolamon-Ganmain Review · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 6

The Wallaroobie Annual Red Cross Ball held in a setting of flowers, colourful streamers and balloons,…

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Top Town Concert Splendid Programme To Appreciative Audience

Adelong and Tumut Express and Batlow District News · Friday 2 April 1954 · page 2

The Top Town concert held in the Montreal Theatre on Wednesday night proved a splendid entertainment and the large…

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Australian theatre

Daily Advertiser · Saturday 3 April 1954 · page 2

It is interesting to see that a fund has been launched in Sydney to encourage the promotion and development of drama, opera and ballet in Australia—in other words, to establish a national…

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£38,500 is promised to theatre trust

Daily Advertiser · Tuesday 6 April 1954 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Monday: Towards the objective of £100,000 to establish an Australian Elizabethan…

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Debutantes Presented at Impressive Ceremony Gundagai Young Anglicans Ball Officially Opens Dancing , Season

The Gundagai Independent · Thursday 8 April 1954 · page 4

Last Tuesday evening saw the opening of the 1954 dancing season in Gundagai, when the annual Young Anglicans Debutante Ball drew a very large patronage of local and district people as well as big representations from…

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Invitation to the Dance

Junee Southern Cross · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 4

"Of" course you'd love to go, so sweet of him to ask you." You put the phone down and then the panic sets in. You…

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Theatre News Roxy To-night

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 2

Stanley Kramer's terrific drama, "Death of a Salesman" will have its final screening at the Roxy to-night with Tim Holt in…

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Arts Council Corroboree Roxy Theatre, Tuesday, April 27

The Murrumbidgee Irrigator · Friday 9 April 1954 · page 2

Since the first performance of John Antill's Ballet "Corroboree" at the Tivoli Theatre before Her Majesty the Queen and…

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Arrangements for Scots Ball

Cootamundra Herald · Monday 12 April 1954 · page 2

The arrangements for the fifth Scots Ball to be held in Cootamundra on Wednesday June 23, are well under way…

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