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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1857

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1857 · page 2

The new age manager, Mr. JOSEPH SIMMONS, is evidently training every nerve to gain for this establishment the favour and patronage of the theatre-going public ; he leaves nothing undone…

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Band of Sope Intelligence. Bathurst Street

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 3 January 1857 · page 22

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The Drama. Our Lyceum Theatre

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 3 January 1857 · page 2

This popular dramatic temple re-opened for the season on Friday last. on which occasion the eminent actor, Mr. G. T. BROOKE appeared as Rory O'More, in the well-known and powerful drama of…

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Band of Hope Bazaar

Empire · Tuesday 6 January 1857 · page 5

The children forming the various branch societies in connection with the Pitt street Band of Hope, assembled again yestorday in large numbers at the Haymarket, and marched in procession…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 January 1857 · page 2

The engagement of the Sisters GOUGENHEIM ends this evening, and we are happy to say that though they have been seventy-six nights before the public, the enthusiasm which greeted their…

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The Drama. Our Lyceum Theatre

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 10 January 1857 · page 2

"Othello," one of the immortal Shakspere's most sublime emanations, was the great attraction on Monday evening. In the character of the " noble Moor" there arc actors who claim the same rank…

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Jullien's First Concert at the Italian Opera House. Miss Catherine Hayes

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 13 January 1857 · page 5

MISS Catherine Haye has been engaged to perform ten nights at these concerts, which commenced on the 5th of November, in London, Her engagement is for ten nights, at £100 a night. Her numberous friends and…

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Goulburn Band of Hope

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 17 January 1857 · page 13

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Band of Sope Intelligence. Pitt Street

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 17 January 1857 · page 12

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Correspondence. Auckland and the Temperance Cause. To the Editor of the Band of Hope Journal

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 17 January 1857 · page 11

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Band of Sope Intelligence. New South Wales

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 31 January 1857 · page 14

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Newcastle. [From Our Own Correspondent.] the Theatre

Empire · Wednesday 4 February 1857 · page 4

We had occasion to notice some time back that the old "stockade" was appropriated to theatrical purposes, under the auspices of Mr. Muriel, well-known in Maitland and other parts of the colooy as a talented and…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Empire · Friday 6 February 1857 · page 4

The second Shakesperian play produced at the Victoria Theatre was performed on Monday night before a most attentive audience. The tragedy of Julius Cæsar is one of those grand productions of the master-post, in…

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Newcastle. [From Our Own Correpondent.] the Theatre

Empire · Tuesday 10 February 1857 · page 2

Our little, theatre opened On thE 5th instant, and the circumstance was quite a novelty in the history of local events. It was the first time the second city in the colony had raised a temple dedicated to the drama, and…

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Band of Sope Intelligence. Bathurst Street

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 14 February 1857 · page 15

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Empire · Tuesday 17 February 1857 · page 4

The management of the Victoria, true to their programme, produced on Saturday and last night their fourth Shaksperian play, Henry the Fifth. The performance of such a play does much to popularize English history,…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Empire · Friday 27 February 1857 · page 4

Judging from the large audiences that assemble at the Victoria Theatre on comedy nights, we infer that the taste of the public leans more towards the humourous than the tragical. The managers must have perceived…

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The Late Concert. To the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Friday 27 February 1857 · page 3

SIR—The following being in reply to what I [?] is a defective criticism on the pianoforte solo, performed in the last philharmonic Concert, having been submitted to the Editor of the Sydney Morning Herald…

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Kent Street Band of Hope

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 28 February 1857 · page 15

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Australian Band of Hope Journal

Australian Band of Hope Journal · Saturday 28 February 1857 · page 16

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