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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
113 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 6
MR. PUNCH has been thunder-struck, very frequently electrified, and occasionally "knocked all of a heap," by his experiences of various kinds of public amusement, but never so completely as by the clever troupe of acrobats now performing at the Prince of Wales Theatre,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Lenton Entertainment appears to be increasing nightly in popularity. "When Hamlet, (who speaks of a "lenten entertainment" himself,) asked what should such fellows as he do crawling between earth and Heaven, Horatio, (not Nelson), might appropriately have…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →SIR—Many years ago I visited St. Andrew's Hall, Norwich, England, and as a youngster was much impressed and likewise instructed with a collection of portraits of almost if not all the mayors of that ancient city,…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →R. PUNCH is happy to record the increased, and still increasing, popularity of…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE following is a detailed account of the burning of the Theatre Royal, at Edinburgh:—A popular performance had been announced for the evening, and workmen were engaged in the usual preparations,…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE Lenton Troupe is still in the ascendant at the Prince of Wales, and, as regards the public, "the cry is still, they come." Mr. PUNCH has neither space to admit of, nor adjectives to express, his detailed opinion of their varied merits, and therefore can only confine himself…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. PUNCH'S "web" of dramatic experiences during the past week has been as a "mingled yarn, good and bad together." At the Prince of Wales the usual Lenton Entertainment was changed into an Easter one, in the form of a pantomime, in which this clever troupe had full…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →Mr. PUNCH begs to call the attention of the Police to the following extraordinary regulation, which appeared in the Herald a few days back N.B.--Visitors are requested to appear in evening costume, for which the floor of the Hall will be reserved. Those in morning costume will please take their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →In the last Home Nows we had to record the destruction of a great theatre in our northern capital, and we have now to announce and accident of a similar nature. For the second time the old Surrey Theatre has been…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MUSIC will again be in the ascendant on Monday evening next, and every evening until further notice, under the auspices of Mr. LYSTER, whose spirit and enterprise in catering for public gratification is "great in mouths of wisest censure." The arrangements for the forthcoming…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →FOR the second time the old Surrey Theatre has been totally destroyed by fire. When we have said this we have said tie gist of all that is really known about the matter. At twenty minutes to 12 on Monday night, January 30, the…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE admirers of the "concord of sweet sounds" had ample cause for gratification at the Prince of Wales on Monday evening last, when Mr. W. S. Lyster's Royal Italian and English Opera Company commenced their fourth season in Sydney. Mr. PUNCH leaves to his gigantic…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →THE approaching Vice-Regal Ball at Government House in honor of Her Majesty's Birthday has suggested to the considerate mind of Mr. PUNCH the expediency of publishing a few hints for the guidance of the, as yet, uninitiated in such matters,, in accordance with the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The production of GOUNOD'S Faust, with its thousand and one beauties of musical, vocal, pictorial, and mechanical excellence, has been, with one exception, the principal feature of Mr. LYSTER'S new operatic season during the past week, or rather since MR. PUNCH had last an…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →CONCERNING theatrical matters during the past week Mr. PUNCH has a good deal to say. A pleasing selection…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →THE following correspondence has been enclosed to Mr. Punch, with a request for its publication. As it may interest some people at least, he accordingly gives it:-- DEAR JEAMES--…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mr. PUNCH is delighted to find that so large a portion of the public availed themselves of his recently published hints on this subject. He only desires to add, by way of postcript, that it is hardly necessary to break a butler's arm in order to get into a supper room…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →At the Opera, as on the " outer walls " of Dunsinane, " the cry is still, they come," and certainly Mr. LYSTER'S operatic strength would laugh a siege of oppositional attraction to scorn, for, with the exception of " The Barber of Seville," he has, as yet. produced nothing new…
Continued on Trove, page 9 →1. MR. COWPER, As Becky Sharp. 2. DR. LANG, As A Maori Chieftain. 3. MR. ROBERTSON, AS AN Aboriginal. 4. THE REV MR. "WEST, As Sairey Gamp. 5. MR. DARVALL, AS THE Headsman. 6. THE CHIEF JUSTICE, as a Bellringer…
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