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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1878

143 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 8

Mdlle Charbonnet's Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 May 1878 · page 5

LAST evening; Mdlle. Alice Charbonnet gave her first concert in Sydney, at the Masonic Hall. There was a crowded and fashionable attendance, whilst the visitors from the country did not fail to take an opportunity of hearing good…

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Mddle. Charbonnet's Concert

Evening News · Monday 13 May 1878 · page 3

The Masonic Hail was well filled on Saturday night by fashionable audience, attracted by the announcement of Mdlle. Charbonnet's second concert. This young planiste has undoubtedly achieved a very…

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Theatre Royal, Adelaide

Illustrated Sydney News and New South Wales Agriculturalist and Grazier · Saturday 18 May 1878 · page 6

THE new Theatre Royal, built at Adelaide for Mr. Edgar Chapman, was opened on the night of the 25th March, the inaugural performance being given by the Soldene Opera Troupe, under the lesseeship of Mr. J…

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The Theatre of War

Evening News · Thursday 23 May 1878 · page 3

The Russians are perfecting their arrangements in Roumania, which some describe as a military occupation of the Principality, while the Russians themselves explain that they are rendered…

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Concert in Aid of the Bathrust Orphanage

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 25 May 1878 · page 17

A CONCERT in aid of the Bathrust Orphanage was given in Orange on Tuesday, 14th May and was, as it deserved to be, a great success. No object more worthy of onlisting the sym…

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Vulgarity at the Theatre

Evening News · Thursday 30 May 1878 · page 2

In the midst of the most exquisitely pathetic scenes of "King Leaf," at the Victoria Theatre last night, a female occupant of a seat in the drew circle was guilty of the must disgusting breach of decorum…

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Ball and Concert Toilettes

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 758

Myra's Journal for April 1 says:—The question of ball and concert toilettes is that above all others which at present engrosses the minds of our couturieres. With the profusion of all kinds of charming gauze, lace, and flowers,…

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Destruction of the Elephant and Castle Theatre by Fire. (From the Daily News, March 27.)

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 1 June 1878 · page 3

ORIGINALLY opened by the late Mr. E. T. Smith on Boxing Night, 1872, the above theatre experienced many vicissitudes, and as a climax the property was reduced to ashes yesterday morning. Mr. Smith's…

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Victoria Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 June 1878 · page 5

THFRP was a double attraction at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday—the appearance for the first time in Sydney of Miss Coombs, and the production of a piece also new to us, and which was thought to afford the debutante full scope…

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Volunteer Fire Brigade Band

Evening News · Wednesday 5 June 1878 · page 2

About two months ago the members of the No. 8 Volunteer Fire Brigade received upon the formation of a band. The members placed themselves under the action o' Mr. Devlin, the well-known inspector…

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Licensed Victuallers Ball

Evening News · Thursday 6 June 1878 · page 2

The first grand hall in connection with the Licensed Victuallers' Association was held in the Masonic Hall last evening, and was a great success in every respect. The hall was beautifully decorated…

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Licensed Victuallers' Ball

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 8 June 1878 · page 816

A GRAND ball under the auspices of the Licensed Victuallers' Association, took place on Wednesday night at the Masonic Hall, York-street. A large and influential committee undertook the…

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The Theatre of War

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 8 June 1878 · page 30

The Russians are perfecting their arrangements in Roumania, which some describe as a military occupation of the Principality, while the Russians themselves explain that they are rendered…

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Mdlle. Charbonnet's Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 12 June 1878 · page 5

ANOTHER Igrand concert was given last night by Mdlle. Alice Charbonnet, at the Masonic Hall, York-street. It must be extremely gratifying to lovers of classical and refined music to observe that the taste for these…

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St. Vincents Hospital Ball

Evening News · Thursday 13 June 1878 · page 2

THE annual ball in aid of the funds of St. Vincent's Hospital, an event that has been uppermost in the minds of a large number of Sydney ladies and gentlemen for some weeks past, came off in the Exhibition…

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St. Vincent's Ball

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 15

THE annual ball this year for St. Vincent's Hospital, which took place on Wednesday evening, was the most successful and largely attended ever held in Sydney for this or any other purpose…

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St. Vincent's Hospital Ball

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 13
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

THE annual ball in aid of the funds of St. Vincent's Hospital, an event that has been uppermost in the minds of a large number of Sydney ladies and gentlemen for some weeks past, came off in the Exhibition…

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"Urge the Flying Ball." to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 15 June 1878 · page 3

SIR,—As on Englishman who has made this colony his home, 1 yield to no one in my feeling of exultation in the victories of the " Eleven." The sensation is similar to that I experience when our light blue "eight" or "eleven"…

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St. Vincent's Ball

Sydney Punch · Saturday 22 June 1878 · page 2

OF all the sights that I have seen, The one surpassed them all, That met my eyes last Wednesday night At the St. Vincent's Ball…

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