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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1845

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Supreme Court.—(criminal Side.) Tuesday, January 7. Before his Honor Mr. Justice Dickinson. Setting Fire to the Victoria Theatre

The Australian · Wednesday 8 January 1845 · page 3

James Bunce was placed at the bar charged with having, on the 25th September, last, set on fire certain premises belonging to Joseph Wyatt. The Solicitor General opened the case and…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. This Evening, February 22

The Australian · Saturday 22 February 1845 · page 3

Will be presented, for the second time, the popular Drama, in 3 Acts, entitled ALICE GREY, THE SUSPECTED ONE; Or, the Triumph of Innocence…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

The Australian · Saturday 1 March 1845 · page 3

Second Appearance of MADAME CARANDINI. Second Night of the celebrated Dance called THE POLKA. Francisco (the Dumb Man) Signor Carandini…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. This Evening, March 11

The Australian · Tuesday 11 March 1845 · page 3

Will be performed, for tho second time, the celebrated Opera, called LA SONNAMBULA. (With Bellini's popular Music, arranged for the…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. Easter

The Australian · Tuesday 25 March 1845 · page 2

To please the Juveniles at home for the Holidays, the PANTOMIME Will be performed this evening, positively for…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

The Australian · Saturday 29 March 1845 · page 2

Second time of the celebrated Drama, called THEODORE THE BRIGAND!!! Thady O'Rafferty............MR. SIMMONS Second time, this season, of…

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The Fancy Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 April 1845 · page 2

Given to the Citizens by the Right Worshipful JAMES ROBERT WILSHIRE, Esq., Mayor of the City of Sydney, at the Royal Victoria Theatre, on the 21st August, 1814. A POEM, IN FOUR CANTOS,…

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The Mayor's Fancy Ball. Canto the First

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 April 1845 · page 2

"Coming events cost their shadows before." CAMPBELL. I. WERE ne'er before in Sydney seen,…

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The Sydney Morning Derald. Friday, April 11, 1845. "Sworn to no master, of no sect am I." the Fancy Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 11 April 1845 · page 2

WE give in another part of this morning's Herald, the first part of the poem on the Fancy Ball, which will be found worthy perusal. We think it right to state, that…

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The Mayor's Fancy Ball. Canto the Second

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 April 1845 · page 2

"So tedious is this day, As is the night bofore some festival To an impatient child, that hath new robes, And may not wear them."…

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The Mayor's Fancy Ball. Canto the Third

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1845 · page 2

All the world's a stage,— And all the men and women merely players; They have their exits, and their entrances, And one man in his day plays many parts."…

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A Round Robin. To the erudite and witty Author of. Canto No. 2, on the Lord Mayor of Sydney's Fancy Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 15 April 1845 · page 3

WE, the Houses of " THE TERRACE," immortalised by your pen, humbly venture to represent to your Worship, that you have been a leetle too hard upon our then inhabitants. We are…

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The Mayor's Fancy Ball. Canto the Fourth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 18 April 1845 · page 3

"And there were dresses splendid and f antastical, Masks of all times and nations, Turks and Jews, And harlequins and clowns, with feats gymnastical, Greeks, Homans, Yankee-doodles, and Hindoos."…

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An Irish Dance

Commercial Journal and General Advertiser · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 1

A writer on the Irish people says.--The Irish dance, like every other assembly composed of Irish men and Irish women, presents the spectator with all those traits which enter into our conception of…

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English Extracts. the Waverley Ball. (From the Morning Chronicle.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 23 April 1845 · page 3

IN compliance with the promise we gave in our journal yesterday, relative to the interesting details connected with this ball, we supply the following detailed notice of that superb…

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English Extracts. British Encouragement of the Fine Arts. Sale of the Late Mr. Jeremiah Har. Man's Collection of Pictures

The Australian · Thursday 24 April 1845 · page 4

The sale of this extraordinary collection of works of art, which commenced on Friday, at Messrs. Christie and Manson's rooms, was brought to a conclusion…

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"The Fancy Ball." To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 25 April 1845 · page 3

GENTLEMEN,—It is neither my province nor my intention to say any thing in praise or dispraise of the taste displayed in a poem m four cantos, recently published in the Herald, though it…

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Dreadful Accident at Drurylane Theatre. (From the Times.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1845 · page 5

ON Saturday night, December 14, a frightful occurrence took place at this theatre, during the performance of the Revolt of the Harem, which in its consequences will, it is feared,…

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Royal Victoria Theatre. This Evening, April 28, 1845

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1845 · page 2

WILL be presented, for the first time in this colony, Douglas Jerrold's admired Play, in three Acts, entitled THE BRITISH MERCHANT; OR, THE DUPE OF FASHION…

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The Fancy Ball Concluded. To the Editors of the Sydney Morning Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 28 April 1845 · page 5

Nunquam si quid credls amavi [?] hominem: sed quo cecidit sub [?] quodam Delator? quibus indiciis! quo teste probavit? Nil rerum; verbosa et grandis epistola venit…

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