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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1949

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Local & General Sensation at Theatre

The South Coast Register · Thursday 2 June 1949 · page 2

Quite a sensation—but happily no panic—was caused by a fire that broke out in the operator’s room at the Roxy Theatre…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Friday 3 June 1949 · page 5

“The Unfinished Dance,” the film which starts at the King’s, Begs, on Saturday, has taken the tense, and artistic world of the ballet as the vehicle…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Tuesday 7 June 1949 · page 5

In “Hazard,” the feature at the King's Theatre next Wednesday night. Paulette Goddard plays the role of a society girl who stakes herself on the cut of the card…

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Band Mews

The South Coast Register · Thursday 9 June 1949 · page 2

As a mark of respect to a former bandsman and a pillar of the Berry Band for many years, the late Mr. John Turner, the…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 7

With the Twentieth Century-Fox film version of Frank Yerby’s sensational best-seller, “The Foxes of Harrow,” moviegoers win be afforded a rich slice of…

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Serious Unrest in Band Group Meeting Called to Attempt Settlement

The Bega District News · Friday 10 June 1949 · page 1

Things are not going very harmoniously in the band world off the South Coast at the moment, as members of the Berry and Milton Bands, together, are in quite some conflict, through the columns of the “South Coast Registerr,” at Berry, with…

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King's Theatre

The Bega District News · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 7

In "Relentless," the feature at the King's Theatre, on Wednesday next, movie fans can expect a rousing drama of the Old West, of relentless pursuit…

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Quaama Ball Opened by Member

The Bega District News · Wednesday 15 June 1949 · page 4

Mr. Alan Fraser M. H. R., opened Agricultural Ball at Quaama School of Arts on Monday night. He was accompanied by his wife and mother, who were…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 5

As the brilliant American prosecutor of Nazi criminals In Paramount's' dramatic thriller "Sealed Verdict," coming to the King's Theatre, on Saturday…

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All's Well in Band Group According to Delegates

The Bega District News · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 1

The meeting of delegates to the Far Southern Band Group held in Nowra last week-end, to discuss the recent charges and counter-charges made…

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Wolumla Church of England Ball Most Successful Function

The Bega District News · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 2

Despite the inclement weather on the might of June 3 last, the Wolumla Church of England Ball, held that night, was most successful…

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Diggers' Ball Huge Success "Atmosphere Of New Guinea"

The Bega District News · Friday 17 June 1949 · page 4

In his speech of welcome to the guests at the "Grand Night In New Guinea" Diggers' Ball, at the Show Pavilion, on Friday night, Digger Percy Underhill, president of the Bega Sub-branch of the R. S. L., said the jungle setting of the hall…

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Band for Eden?

The Bega District News · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 2

A special public meeting has been called in Eden for this week to make an attempt to consider re-forming the Eden Band…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Tuesday 21 June 1949 · page 5

Warner Bros, have taken another Broadway smash to John van Druten’s record-making stage hit “The Voice of the Turtle,” and transferred it to the…

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Band News

The South Coast Register · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 2

Two new cornets have been purchased for the Berry Band, thus leaving vacancies for two more recruits in the beginners’…

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The Diggers’ Ball

The South Coast Register · Thursday 23 June 1949 · page 1

To-morrow (Friday) night is the date of the Berry Diggers’ Ball, and all roads will lead to the School of Arts, where the…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 7

Grand scale melodrama comes to the screen of the King’s Theatre on Saturday in “Tap Roots,” Technicolor saga of the never-to-be-forgotten Lebanon…

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Cobargo Church of England Ball

The Bega District News · Friday 24 June 1949 · page 8

After much debating during the day as to the wisdom of holding the Church of England Ball, the same night, (last Wednesday night),…

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King’s Theatre

The Bega District News · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 5

The heroine of the unique and classic Charles Chaplin type of film love story must have the unusual, lyric quality of the love story itself…

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Drawing of Band Art Union

The Bega District News · Tuesday 28 June 1949 · page 4

There is scarcely a person in the district, and out of the district for that matter too, who is not hoping wistfully that the Band Art Union…

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