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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1938

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Saturday Night Dance

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 11

The Kangaroo Valley Tennis Club held a dance on Saturday night last, believing that the holiday-makers would like another dance, but the…

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New Year’s Eve Fancy Dress Dance and Euchre Party

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 5 January 1938 · page 11

Despite the warm conditions last Friday night, a very large crowd attended the New Year’s Eve Revel conducted by the K.V. Cricket Club…

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Roxy Theatre, Nowra

The South Coast Register · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 4

A wild buckaroo out where the West begins, “Ginger” Jane Withers begins where the wild West leaves off in her grandest Twentieth Century…

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Our Neighbours Kangaroo Valley School of Arts Dance

The South Coast Register · Thursday 6 January 1938 · page 5

There was a a large attendance of locals and visitors at the School of Arts dance on Boxing Night, £17/8/ being taken at the door. The music…

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Roxy Theatre

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 12 January 1938 · page 12

“‘Angel’ gave me the opportunity of working with Marlene Dietrich That’s something that every actor would like to do, and I’ve enjoyed the…

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Roxy Theatre, Nowra

The South Coast Register · Thursday 13 January 1938 · page 4

Ernst Lubitsch considered himself extremely fortunate in securing the services, in addition to Miss Dietrich, of Herbert Marshall and…

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Theatre News

The Nowra Leader · Friday 14 January 1938 · page 12

The catchy tune, "Will You Be My Lovey Dovey," sung by Sharon Lynne and her Gay 90's' chorus in Laurel and Hardy's feature comedy, "Way Out…

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Roxy Theatre

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 19 January 1938 · page 12

Something decidedly new comes to the screen of the Roxy Theatre tonight and to-morrow night in Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s “Night Must Fall,”…

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Roxy Theatre, Nowra

The South Coast Register · Thursday 20 January 1938 · page 4

Adopting a technique of story construction that is entirely new on the screen, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer introduces a novel picture in “Night…

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Theatre News

The Nowra Leader · Friday 21 January 1938 · page 10

Eddie Cantor's first picture for 20th Century-Fox is the grandest, fun-jammedest, most extrava-glorious hit on earth! "Ali Baba Goes to Town,"…

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Roxy Theatre

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 26 January 1938 · page 14

A stirring romantic drama, Universal’s “Idol of the Crowds,” starring John Wayne and featuring Shelia Bromley, will open at the Roxy…

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Roxy Theatre, Nowra

The South Coast Register · Thursday 27 January 1938 · page 4

A thrilling love story framed against an ice hockey background, Universal’s “Idol of the Crowds” screens on Tuesday at the Roxy…

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Theatre News

The Nowra Leader · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 3

Hollywood believes the most important ingredient of a good motion picture is action. Many other ingredients are necessary. There must be…

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Courageous Children. Travelling Band in Braidwood

The Nowra Leader · Friday 28 January 1938 · page 12

Those people who heard the travelling children's band in Braidwood's main street on Saturday afternoon last little realised the story of pluck…

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Friendly Societies’ Dance

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 15

The United Friendly Societies held a dance and euchre tournament in the Nowra School of Arts on Wednesday night last, in aid of the…

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Good Pictures (To the Editor)

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 2 February 1938 · page 9

Sir,—I am pleased to see Mr. Sutton come into the firing line, and still more pleased that he has enumerated some of the star pictures he has…

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Roxy Theatre, Nowra

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 4

If anybody ever was equipped to play a role in a naval aviation picture it is Bay Milland, who portrays an aviation lieutenant in Universal’s…

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Local and General St. Patrick’s Night Dance

The South Coast Register · Thursday 3 February 1938 · page 2

At a meeting of the parishioners of the Catholic Church at Berry on Sunday last, it was decided to hold the annual carnival dance in the…

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Theatre News

The Nowra Leader · Friday 4 February 1938 · page 6

In bringing "Trader Horn," popular story of African adventure, to the talking screen. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer recruited what is said to have been…

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Roxy Theatre

The Shoalhaven News, Nowra · Wednesday 9 February 1938 · page 14

Columbia’s new Irene Dunne Comedy, “The Awful Truth,” which continues to break all box-office records at the Regent, Sydney, and which…

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