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Southern Highlands · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1944

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Empire Pictures Coming Attractions

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 3

On Saturday, Monday and Tuesday [?] Hope and Dorothy Lamour will [?] seen at the Empire Theatre, Bowral, in "They Got Me Covered," a…

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Show Ball a Great Success Seventy Pounds Raised

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

Robertson Show Society, after a lapse of two years, staged their annul ball on 29th December and scored an undoubted success. Over 260 people…

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Kangaloon Concert

The Southern Mail · Friday 7 January 1944 · page 2

The breaking-up concert and dance run by the Kangaloon P.C.A. drew a large crowd and was entirely successful. The headmaster (Mr. C. W…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Never a Dull Moment and Gildersleeve's Bad Day Riotous Comedy

The Southern Mail · Friday 14 January 1944 · page 3

"Gilderaleeve's Bad Day" is fast, furious and funny all the way through. Harold (Gildersleeve) Peary in the name role is decidedly at his…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Larceny with Music and the Seventh Victim Larceny with Music

The Southern Mail · Friday 21 January 1944 · page 3

"Larceny with Music" is a clever production presenting a cast of big-time entertainers, with just about all the ingredients required for popular…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Gals Incorporated and Mad Ghoul Song-filled Comedy

The Southern Mail · Friday 28 January 1944 · page 3

Novel comedy situations, gay music and a screenful of glamorous Hollywood notables are the entertaining elements of Universal's latest…

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Association Band Nears Jubilee Proposed Tablet to First President

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 2

Through the vicissitudes inseparable from parrying on despite wartime depletion of personnel, one ambition above all others has sustained the…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) the Falcon in Danger and a Scream in the Dark

The Southern Mail · Friday 4 February 1944 · page 3

THE FALCON IN DANGER Another of this popular aeries of thrillers. There's a strange kidnappin—a millionaire dtoappears—the…

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Saturday and Monday the Crystal Ball and My Kingdom for a Cook the Crystal Ball

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 3

This whirlwind comedy is spun against the carnival atmosphere of a gaudy New York "honky tonk" district in which fortune-teller Gladys…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Crime Doctor and Spirit of Stanford Crime Doctor

The Southern Mail · Friday 11 February 1944 · page 3

Warner Baxter, Margaret Lindsay and John Litel are featured in "Crime Doctor." A man is thrown from a car after a robbery; the crooks leave…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) the West Side Kid and the Leopard Man the West Side Kid

The Southern Mail · Friday 18 February 1944 · page 3

This is an absurd plot, but an excellent film. Old Sam Wilson, millionaire, 'is so disgusted with the way his wife and…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Secret Mission and Wings Over the Pacific Secret Mission

The Southern Mail · Friday 25 February 1944 · page 3

Major Peter Garnett, Captain Raoul de Carnot, a Free French officer. Captain Red Gowan and Private Nobby Clark are sent on a secret…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Dad Budd, M.P. and Spider Woman. Dad Rudd. M.P.

The Southern Mail · Friday 3 March 1944 · page 3

Bert Bailey is Australia's best-loved comedian. His impersonation of Dad Rudd doesn't please the more sophisticated city dwellers, and shocks those…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Queen of Hearts and the Avenging Rider Saturday, Monday and Tuesday Star-spangled Rhythm and Thru Different Eyes This Film Has Everything !

The Southern Mail · Friday 10 March 1944 · page 3

More than forty top-ranking stars in one picture is something of a record, even for fabulous Hollywood, but that is the score Paramount runs…

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Juvenile Ball Merriest Function of Them All

The Southern Mail · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 2

The Javenile Ball organised in support of the Dancing Girl in the Sports Girl Quest gave great joy to a host of little ones, who had the time of…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Flight Lieutenant and Adventures of a Rookie Flight Lieutenant

The Southern Mail · Friday 17 March 1944 · page 3

Pat O'Brien, Glenn Ford and Evelyn Keyes come to the screen in one of the year's most thrilling service pictures, Columbia's "Flight Lieutenant."…

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What Others Think Children and Pictures The Editor. The Mail

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 6

Sir,—It is reported that a boy aged ten years fell asleep in a picture theatre — instead of his bed — one night. Whilst there is still time, it…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Trouble Brewing and the Falcon and the Co-eds. George Formby

The Southern Mail · Friday 24 March 1944 · page 5

There's "Trouble Brewing" for George Formby, and a real treat of hearty laughter is in store for picture fans. "Trouble Brewing" is said…

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The Ball

The Southern Mail · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 2

The ball was a great success, visitors being present from Robertson, Glenquarry and Mittagong. The music by Mrs. Lawson (piano) Mr…

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Pictures of the Week Screenings at the Empire To-night (Friday) Mystery of the 13th GUEST and Flying Buckaroo Mystery Play

The Southern Mail · Friday 31 March 1944 · page 3

With Dick Purcell and Helen Parrish in leading roles, "Mystery of the 18th Guest" is a story of murder and suspense, motivated by the will of an…

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