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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1833

29 stories in Sydney's papers · page 1 of 2

The Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 1 January 1833 · page 2

This place of recreation was opened again on Saturday [?]ning. Black-eyed Susan, and Fortune's Frolic, had been announced, but the latter piece was superseded by the performance of…

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The Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Thursday 3 January 1833 · page 2

A new afterpiece (viz. Fortune's Frolic) was introduced on Monday evening to a very respectable and crowded house. The manner in which it was got up reflected great credit on the…

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Theatre Royal Sydney

Weekly Observer · Friday 4 January 1833 · page 2

Mr. Levey, from his singular love of bombast in opposition to simplicity, has styled his little humble place " Theatre Royal!" Truth and nature and fact,…

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Pictures of the Duke of Wellington and Sir Robert Peel. Drawn by the Morning Chronicle

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 5 January 1833 · page 3

The genus of the Tories will soon become extinct. Their curious fossil remains will, at no distant day, form matters of illustration by political naturalists, in lectures on our…

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Covent Garden—paganini's Concerts

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 26 January 1833 · page 4

PAGANINI played for the first time since his accident, on Tuesday; with what pain or discomfort to himself we cannot tell, while the music went as smoothly and beautifully as ever. The friends of…

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The Theatre. To the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 12 February 1833 · page 3

SIR, As a lover of the drama, I attended the theatre on Saturday last, to witness the first five-act play performed (I believe) in…

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The Theatre. to the Editor of the Sydney Gazette

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 13 February 1833 · page 3

SIR, As a lover of the drama, I attended the theatre on Saturday last, to witness the first five-act play performed (I believe) in Australia. The…

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Their Majesties' Ball

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 16 February 1833 · page 4

Their Majesties gave a State Ball at St. James's Palace on Friday evening, which was more numerously attended than either of the preceding Balls this season…

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The Theatre. "The drama's laws the drama's patrons give."

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 19 February 1833 · page 3

Lewis's play of The Castle Spectre was produced, for the first time at the theatre on Saturday evening last. This is one of those sickly, sentimental,…

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Drury-lane Theatre

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 2 March 1833 · page 2

We last night visited this theatre for the purpose of seeing the second performance of Mr. Jerrold's Factory Girl. It was more favourably received than on Saturday, but we scarcely think…

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The "Gentlemen of the Theatre."

The Currency Lad · Saturday 2 March 1833 · page 2

BY a reference to our third page, our readers will perceive a letter from one Monsieur Impartiality, to which we beg leave to call their attention. What…

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The Theatre

The Currency Lad · Saturday 9 March 1833 · page 2

We all remember--at least Barnet Levey remembers--the howling of a certain race some time ago when a theatre was first proposed in this colony. We all remember the heavy denunciations…

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The Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Tuesday 19 March 1833 · page 2

The Comedy of the Miser, with the afterpiece of Bombas[?]es Furisoso, were performed on Saturday evening to a crowded audience. The Miser, although stated in…

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The Theatre

The Sydney Monitor · Saturday 23 March 1833 · page 2

WE Would advise Mr. Levey to take such steps, as to prevent the belief of a report now in circulation, that he proposes to exclude from the Stage, all actors…

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Mr. Levey and the Theatre

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 27 March 1833 · page 2

We have received the following letter from Mr. Levey, which we insert with pleasure. TO THE EDITOR OF THE SYDNEY MONITOR…

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Mr. Levey and the Theatre

The Sydney Gazette and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 30 March 1833 · page 2

We refrained in our last, from noticing the circumstance of Mr. LEVEY having, as we learnt, been persuaded, for peace sake, to comply with the…

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Easter Sunday and the Theatre

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 3 April 1833 · page 2

WE suggest to Mr Levey, how far he may think it due to the feelings of the religious portion of the community (a powerful body b[?] the bye, when they take alarm of offencey…

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The Sydney Gazette and the Theatre. To the Editor of the Currency Lad

The Currency Lad · Saturday 6 April 1833 · page 3

SIR, The extravagant length to which the Editor of the Sydney Gazette has, of late, gone in his theatrical remarks, and the arrogance and with…

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Original Correspondence. Theatre. To the Editors of the Sydney Herald

The Sydney Herald · Monday 30 September 1833 · page 2

GENTLEMEN,—Seeing a paragraph in your valuable Paper, in which my name is mentioned, I trust, that in order to prevent the public forming any erroneous opinion, that as you are "Sworn to…

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Domestic Intelligence. THEATRE

The Sydney Monitor · Wednesday 9 October 1833 · page 2

(OUR reporter's account of the opening of the Theatre, being fully more severe than that of the Sydney Gazette, we adopt the critique of the latter, wishing well to…

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