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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1827

7 stories in Sydney's papers

Subscription Concert

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 11 January 1827 · page 2

Mr. CLARKE'S Benefit Concert took place on Tuesday evening, and, we regret to say, was but thinly attended. How such happened to be the case we can hardly account for,…

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Ball and Supper, in Honor of the King's Birth-day. Wednesday Morning, Half-past Two O'clock. Orient light, Exhaling first from darkness, they beheld BIRTH-DAY of heaven and earth. MILTON

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Wednesday 25 April 1827 · page 2

The Public are already aware that the GOVERNOR and his LADY, as is customary with them, gave a Ball and Supper yesterday…

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The New Theatre

The Australian · Friday 29 June 1827 · page 3

The Proprietor of the Colchester Warehouse—the new building in George-street, is intending immediately to appropriate part of these premises to the purposes of a theatre. The lower apartment is large enough for a commodious…

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New Theatre

The Australian · Wednesday 25 July 1827 · page 3

The project of establishing a new theatre in Sydney, which was so warmly supported and talked of last year, but which languished, sickened, and in a few weeks after appeared to have merged into "the tomb of all the Capulets," has…

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Ball and Supper

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Monday 24 September 1827 · page 2

On the evening of Friday last, the ATTORNEY GENERAL, and his LADY, entertained a very large and distinguished Party at their residence in York-street. Cards of invitation…

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Persian Description of an English Theatre

The Australian · Friday 7 December 1827 · page 4

In Europe, the manner in which plays are acted, and balls and musical parties conducted, is (entirely) different from that of Hindoostan. The people of this country (India) send for the singers to their own houses where they view the…

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Persian Description of an English Theatre. (From the Travel of Mirza Ilesa Modeen, in Great Britain and France.)

The Australian · Wednesday 12 December 1827 · page 2

"In Europe, the manner in which plays are acted, and balls and musical parties conducted, is (entirely) different from that of Hindoostan. The people of this country (India) send for the singers to their own houses, where they view the…

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