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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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DURING the week the combined attractiveness of Lady Don and the Pantomime, at the Prince of Wales has eventuated in most beneficial results to the Treasury. This evening (Saturday) is set apart for the benefit of Lady Don, being her last appearance previous to her…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →LADY DON completed her engagement on Saturday last, and sailed for New Zealand on Monday en route for California. This necessitated the withdrawal of the original opening to the pantomime at the Prince of Wales and the substitution of the clever and effective…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE performances at the Prince of Wales during the past week have been of a more miscellaneous character than is usual at this establishment. On Tuesday the Leopold troupe took their farewell benefit, when MR. PUNCH was sorry to see the attendance was by no means…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →AT the Prince, business has been dreadfully slow, a beggarly account of empty boxes, pit, and gallery, having been the order of the night, except on Tuesday when a tolerably numerous audience assembled to do honor to Mrs. Crosby's benefit. The new drama of the "Personator"…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →No doubt my long silence has surprised you; and 'tis probable that during the past two months you have been looking anxiously, but in vain, for something elegant and instructive from the pen of yours truly. I dare say you have set me down as a bit of a humbug, and…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE time-ball did not fall at 1 p.m. yesterday, February 12th, j owing to an unavoidable fault in the electrical upparatus…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →BUT little of novelty in the shape of theatrical performances has to be recorded during the past week. At the Prince of Wales, the talents of Messrs. BARRY, RAYNER, ANDREWS, WELSH, WOLFE, Mrs. C. POOLE, Mrs. CROSBY, and the rest of the stock company have been devoted to…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →There was great stir of preparation at headquarters on the morning of the 8th. Invitations to the ball were sent out to all the families in Urbana and its neighbourhood, and to the officers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →THE debut of the fair "Arrah na Pogue," after her recent trial at the Supreme Court, created sufficient excitement among playgoers to crowd every portion of the auditorium of the Victoria Theatre, where the fair victim of "prosecution" made her first appeal to the public on…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. PUNCH, were he in a similar position with reference to the two Arrah-na-Pogues that the shepherd boy on Mount Ida was to the three goddesses, would feel himself pretty considerably puzzled as to whom he should accord the apple. Happily for himself, however, no such…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →BEYOND recording the continued success of Arrah na Pogue at both of the theatres (particularly as regards the attendance at the Victoria) Mr. Punch has but little to say. The Shauns, Arrahs, Feenies, &c., continue to excite the usual amount of enthusiasm among their…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →PUNCH has not been very theatrically disposed this week, and for a variety of reasons is not able to spare that amount of space he is usually pleased to bestow on public amusements. At the Prince of Wales Mr. Barry Sullivan appeared as Hamlet on several nights; the piece was…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE principal features of the week at the Prince of Wales have been the Stranger, Gamester, Wonder, and the Merchant of Venice, supported by Messrs. BARRY SULLIVAN, HEIR, FITZGERALD, HARWOOD, GREVILLE, WALSH, Mr. ROBERT HEIR, Mrs. GREVILLE, &c., &c., and…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Mr. W. O'NELL has been continuing his successful engagement at the Victoria, and has appeared during the week in "The Irish Cousin," "The Irish Lion," and other of his admirable personations, and this evening, by particular desire, and for the last time, will…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →A PUBLIC meeting of the citizens of Sydney, convened by advertisement, was held yesterday evening, in the Prince of Wales Theatre, for the purpose of testifying, to the eminent services to this community of the late Dr. Wolley)…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →WITH the exception of the best performance of the season, in which there was certainly no display of acting, but a grand exhibition of noble, generous, spontaneous and real good feeling, (Mr. Punch alludes to the meeting held on Monday, to raise a substantial fund for…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →As might have been predicted, a crowded and brilliant audience assembled at the Prince of Wales on Monday night, when Mr. Lyster's Opera Season of 1866 commenced with Donnizetti's "Lucrezia" and "La Fille du Regiment." Each artiste, as she or he appeared, received…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →THE reproduction of Meyerbeer's Huguenots" at the Prince of Wales on Saturday night, under vice-regal patronage drew, as might have been expected, a crowded audience, and its performance was on this occasion more effective, if possible, than on any previous one…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →WITHOUT, Mr. PUNCH believes, one single exception, the largest audience ever congregated at the Prince of Wales Theatre, assembled there on Monday night last. Every seat, and all the standing room, were filled almost to inconvenience, though with commendable…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →MR. W. S. Lyster inaugurated his supplementary season on Tuesday night last, by the production, for the first time in New South Wales, of Rossini's Grand Opera of Semiramide, the result being that, the most perfect performance, in all its details, ever witnessed on the…
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