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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1875

170 stories in Sydney's papers · page 6 of 9

The Queen's Theatre

Evening News · Wednesday 22 September 1875 · page 2

Augustine Daly's dramatic version of some of the principle event deputed in Charles Reads exciting novel "Griffith Gaunt" was produced at this the on Monday night, the parts being played by…

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The Sew Theatre Royal

Evening News · Thursday 23 September 1875 · page 2

This building is so far advanced m to warrant the belief that it will be nady for opening by the 9th of November. Many people have been hasarding conjectures as to its safety as a building, and whether…

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The New Theatre Royal

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 September 1875 · page 9

THIS building is so far advanced as to warrant the belief that it will be ready for opening by the 9th of November. Everything is on a magnificent scale. Messrs. Taylor and Waring…

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Mr. Fisher's Juvenile" Concert

Evening News · Tuesday 28 September 1875 · page 2

Mr. J. C. Fisher gave a grand juvenile concert is the Masonic Hall last evening. arrested by members of the Wandering Minstrels Glee Club, There was a very large Audience, every part of the ha1l been field,and…

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Leoture at the Victoria Theatre

Evening News · Thursday 7 October 1875 · page 2

We are requested to call attention to an advertisement respecting a lecture upon 'Robert Burns," and in vindication of the liberty of the Press, to be delivered by Mr. Rae, the Editor of the WESTERN…

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News of the Day. Band in the Gardens

Evening News · Thursday 7 October 1875 · page 2

The bad of the Permanent Forces plays in the Botanical Gardens on saturday afternoon…

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The Queen's Theatre

Evening News · Tuesday 12 October 1875 · page 2

If ever a manager was warranted in announcing "a minster programme," the lessee of the Queen's certainly is, for he seams determined to consult all tastes, lust night the bill of fan was good and…

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Victoria Theatre

Evening News · Wednesday 13 October 1875 · page 5

Madame Ristori and her company gave "Norma" last night. There is no material difference between the tragedy and the opera, the same plot serving as a basis for both. It is needless to say that Bistort's…

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The Queen's Theatre

Evening News · Monday 18 October 1875 · page 2

At the Queen's Theatre, a sensational drama entitled "Never too Late to Mead," has been played since Friday. It is a favourite stock sensational piece, and is pretty well known to Sydney playgoers. The…

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The Victoria Theatre

Evening News · Monday 18 October 1875 · page 2

Madame Ristori had the best house of her season on Saturday, and her greatest play, "Mary Antoinetre," with its strange fascination, vivid reality, and inimitable completeness of unity and grouping, was…

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Queen's Theatre

Evening News · Tuesday 19 October 1875 · page 2

To-night the drama of "Never too late to mend," which has drawn large audiences to the Queen's for several days, it to be played for the last time, and the present programme of Baby Benson and the…

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Queen's Theatre

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1875 · page 3

Last night the elegant comedy of [?] Run Ceep" was played for Mr. Allison's benefit to a very large house, and it was universally allowed that the piece was presented unexceptionably well. The…

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Mr. Fisher's Juvenile Concert

Evening News · Thursday 21 October 1875 · page 2

The juvenile concert recently given in the Masonic Hall under the dis[?]tion of Mr. J. C. Fisher, and which went off so successfully, was repealed in the Mesonic Hall last night There was a telerably large…

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Royal Victoria Theatre

Evening News · Friday 22 October 1875 · page 2

BENEFIT OF MADAME RISTORI.—Our readers will scarcely require any additional inducement to visit the Victoria Theatre this evening beyond the notice of te fact that it is set apart for the farewell benefit of…

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