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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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NOT the least popular of the Christmas attractions is the pantomime. People, who never at any other time soe the inside of a theatre, make the Christmas season with its time-honoured pantomime, an exception; and…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →This theatre was crowded in every part, last evening, and in the stalls there was not even standing room left. The calls for encores were numerous; but these were declined, and wisely so, for the piece in itself is long…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →A very large audience assembled in the Queen's Theatre last night. The piece produced was "Honest Hearts," a play to which Messrs. Baker and Farron introduced a Sydney audience sometime ago. The cast was in most…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The Theatre Royal was agian excellently attended last night. There was no perceptible falling off in the number of visitors who crowded the stalls and the pit, and the dress circle was, as usual, full. The fun was as sparkling, and…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →THE well-known writer, Verax, contributes the following article to the MANCHESTER EXAMINER AND TIMES:— There are some subjects which ally themselves…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →As the last nights of Messrs. Baker and Farron's season at the Queen's are approaching, their success seems greater than ever. Last night "Liza Eccles," that most comprehensive of dramas was played…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Amphibio," at the Victoria Theatre, has attained success, and has deserved it, for Mr. J. Rainford has placed it upon the stage with such attention to detail and such liberality in the matters of costume and scenery that not…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The old story which has delighted us all in the nursery is being told at the Royal with a freshness and vigour which lends it a new charm. "Tommy and Sally" are like "Helen's Babies," brimful of…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Mr. PUNCH notices with much pleasure a lengthy list of influential gentleman on the Ball Committee to the worthy representative of France at the Exhibition, Captain Mathieu. Citizens of Sydney should remember that, in doing honour to Captain Mathieu, they are…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The story of "Amphibio," as told in the pantomime at the Victoria, although presenting some striking points of difference to the generally recognised version of the old Rhine legend of…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →In the presence of an audience which filled the theatre to a rather uncomfortable degree on Saturday night, Mesars. Baker and Farron made their last appearance at least for some time to come. The high degree of…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →Notwithstanding strong rivalry "The Babes in the Wood" and its accessorial harlequinade continue to attract large numbers of persons to the Theatre Royal. On Saturday the house, with the exception of its dross circle, was…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →At the Queen's Theatre Messrs. Baker and Farron took a most successful benefit, when a capital bill was provided. The programme consisted of the first act of the new "Conrad and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Some of the professional friends of Mme. Cecilia Summerhayes have resolved to offer her a concert in testimony of their approciation of the services she has rendered to the cause of music since her arrival, and of their kindly…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The last week of the season at the above theatre, under the management of Messrs. Baker and Farron, was inaugurated last evening by the appearance of Miss Imogene, an American character…
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