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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1862

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The Dance Fo Deatgh. To the Editor of the Times

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 April 1862 · page 5

Sir,—Will you allow us to bring under the notice of your readers the melanoholy fate of hundreds of young women and children, who, as artificial florists are suffering in the most terrible manner from handling and inhaling the…

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Tub Dance of Death

Sydney Mail · Saturday 3 May 1862 · page 3

[The following correspondence under this heading has appeared in the London Times. The first letter end its enclosure was published at the instance of the joint secretaries (the Duchess of Sutherland and Lady Cowper) of the…

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Charitable Freemasonry or Ball Vice Bazaar, Superseded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 May 1862 · page 8

WERE the caterers for the Press of Sydney as ubiquitous as some of their London fraternity assume to be—could we, like the Morning Post, profess to have our feet under tho mahocrany of…

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Royal Anatomical Theatre. (George-street Opposite the Cathedral.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 17 May 1862 · page 2

The excellent attendance upon Dr Doyle's Lectures at his Exhibition during the week, proves that our fellowcitizens are fully alive to the advantages of obtaining information on the instructive and very interesting…

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St. Mary's Catholic Asylum for the Blind. Concert

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 17 May 1862 · page 2

One of the most remarkable entertainments which we have ever had the opportunity of attending, took place on Saturday evening in the Ancient Concert Hall. This was no less than a…

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Royal Anatomical Theatre. (George-street Opposite the Cathedral)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 24 May 1862 · page 2

The concluding Lectures ot'the Series by Dr" Doyle will be delivered this day evening; and the success which has attendent the talented lecturer's masterly expositions must have been peculiarly gratifying to him, if…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Empire · Monday 26 May 1862 · page 5

One of the nicest and most effective three act plays which has been produced at this house was presented on Saturday evening, under the title "A Cure for the Heart. ache." It has many features to recommend it, amongst…

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Concert at the Masonic Hall

Empire · Monday 26 May 1862 · page 5

The first of series of people's concerts took place, on Saturday evening last, at the Masonic Hall, York-street, and although it did not meet with the success it deserved in point of numerical attendance, still the audience was…

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The History, of the Dance. (From the Saturday Review)

Empire · Thursday 29 May 1862 · page 3

THERE is no art so fallen from its high estate as that of dancing. A formal history of it seems nowa-days almost a curiosity of literature, to be compared only to a History of Pitch and Toss, or a…

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Royal Anatomical Theatre. (George-street Opposite the Cathedral.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1862 · page 2

DR. DOYLE has nightly succeeded in rivetting the attention of crowded audience. His lurid exposition of the subjects selected, free from the incomprehensible jargon of the medical pedant, have deservedly been appreciated…

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Kreitmayer's Museum of Illustration. (Pitt-street, Nearly Opposite the Theatre.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 31 May 1862 · page 2

An Exhibition not only of extraordinary merit but replete with interest to the colonists generally, has been on view in Pitt-street during the week. It is designated " Kroitmayer's Museum of Illustration," and consists of…

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Dr. Doyle at the Anatomical Theatre

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 7 June 1862 · page 2

Perhaps in the history of lectures and lecturers, there has never been realised so signal a success—if can except Mr Spurgeon—as that achieved amongst us in a short space of time by Dr Doyle at the above Institution…

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The Governor's Ball. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Wednesday 11 June 1862 · page 8

SIR,—I beg to request that you will allow me a small space in your valuable journal, for the purpose of giving publicity to the very inconvenient night that his Excellency has selected for the ball to take place in honour…

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The Great Exhibit on of 1862. the Pictures. From Chamber's Journal

Empire · Wednesday 11 June 1862 · page 6

IN the first number for the present year, the readers of this Journal were supplied with the means of forming [?]n idea of the forthe oming Great Exhibition at B ompton, in relation…

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Royal Anatomical Theatre. (George-street Opposite the Cathedral.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 14 June 1862 · page 3

The attendance upon DR DOYLE'S celebrated LECTURES has increased nightly; and it is to be regretted that the engagements of the Proprietary will not admit of their continunce beyond Saturday next. The subject…

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St.vincent's Hospital Ball

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 June 1862 · page 9

The success that attended the St.Vincent's Ball last year-the first ball be it remembered that,was ever given in Sydney for a charitable purpose-was too great to allow so pleasant a…

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Royal Anatomical Theatre. (George-street Opposite the Cathedral.)

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 21 June 1862 · page 2

This day and evening will be the last opportunity that can be afforded the Sydney public of inspecting this fine collection of Models, and hearing the distinguished lecturer, at, present connected with it. Dr. Doyle, by…

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Royal Anatomical Theatre

Bell's Life in Sydney and Sporting Chronicle · Saturday 28 June 1862 · page 2

This superb collection of natural preparations and anatomical models, will proceed to Queensland by the Williams, steamer, on Monday afternoon, accompanied by Dr Doyle as lecturer. Our Brisbane and Ipswich…

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Our Voltunteers' Ball. to the Editor of the Empire

Empire · Monday 30 June 1862 · page 3

SIR,—Would you be kind enough to inform us a (I mean the ladies) when our Sydney Volunteers' Ball talked of so many months—almost yeers—back, is to come off. I have asked my Harry, who belongs to the…

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French Pictures of England

Empire · Thursday 17 July 1862 · page 2

THE Temps publishes an article from the pen of M. Sherer, one of the leading contributors that paper; and it records the impress on made on hia[?] by the Great Exhibition. We make…

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