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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1880

1,232 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 62

The Artillery Band. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1880 · page 3

Sir,--Noticing in your issue of the 9th instant a complaint particularly directed against the New South Wales Artillery Band, I have to request that you will be good enough to make known the facts of…

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The Urso Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 13 February 1880 · page 5

Years ago, M. Thiers remarked, "Well may the English nation be great, for the best and greatest of all nations have helped to make it so." After last night's concert the words, slightly altered, presented themselves…

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Miss Rachel Gray's Concert

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1880 · page 3

In contempt of the continuous and most discouraging rainfall, and notwithstanding the great counter-attraction presented by the banquet to the Foreign Exhibition Commissioners, a considerable…

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The Camilla Urso Concert

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Friday 13 February 1880 · page 3

There could not have been a higher compliment paid to Madame Camilla Urso than the fact that, notwithstanding the extremely unpleasant weather yesterday evening, the School of Arts was again…

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The British Exhibitors' Ball

Sydney Punch · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 7

THE ball given by the British Exhibitors to the Citizens of Sydney duly came off on Tuesday, at the Masonic Hall, and proved an unqualified success. The arrangements were perfect, thanks to the Committee and their very indefatigable hon. sec…

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Destruction of the Theatre Royal, Dublin. London, Feb. 9

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 318

The Theatre Royal, Dublin, was, last night, destroyed by lire. Six persons lost their lives, and several others sustained injuries…

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Miss Gray's Concert

Evening News · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 7

Miss Rachel Gray's concert in aid of the Irish Distress Relief Fund was given on Thursday night in the Masonio Hall, in York-street. The audience was not large, but the wonder appeared to us to be that,…

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The Urso Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 6

The wondrous unanimity of feeling manifested by the public of Sydney in regard to the monts of, and consequent support to be awarded to, the Urso Concerts makes the task of the critic comparatively easy. The potency of…

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The Camilla Urso Concert

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 14 February 1880 · page 5

The two last nights of these highly popular concerts having been announced, there was, as might have been expected, an overcrowded audience assembled in the School of Arts last night, to hear…

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Queen's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Lo[?]us Troupe at the Queen's Theatre produced a new programme on Saturday night, to an audience which crowded every part of the theatre. The company go in for making their patrons laugh, and they succeed in the main…

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Victoria Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Daily Telegraph

The nautical drama, entitled "Insured [?] at Lloyd's," was produced before a large audience on Saturday night, at the Victoria Theatre, and formed a legiti[?]ate successor to "The Poor of London," being equally interesting, and…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 3
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

"Escaped, or Fetters and Flowers," with Mr. Creswick in the characters of the Convict, the Marquis, and the Matelot was repeated at the Theatre Royal on Saturday evening. The polished…

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The Camilla Urso Concerts

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 16 February 1880 · page 3

The last but one of the highly popular series of concerts in the School of Arts was given on Saturday night, and proved as successful as any of its predecessors. Indeed, the attendance was so large…

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Queen's Theatre

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 2

The Victoria Loftus Troupe continue to draw crowded houses at the Queen's Theatre, the attendance last night being again large. The programme was the same as that given on Saturday evening…

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Victoria Theatre

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 2

Though the weather was anything but propitious last night, there was a good attendance at the Victoria Theatre to witness another performance of "Insured At at Lloyd's" which was…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 2

"Escaped" was again produced at the Theatre Royal last night, and it is almost needles to say went as smoothly and as pleasantly as on former occasions. Mr. Creswick sustained the loading…

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The Urso Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1880 · page 5

The unpropitious state of the weather was powerless against the attraction at the School of Arts last evening. Madame Urso gave her final concert in the presence of a crammed house; a few of the secured seats were not occupied…

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