The Queen's Theatre
The performance hero last night was very well patronised, and deservedly so. The pantomime is replete with fun, and notwithstanding other inducement it is quite possible to enjoy an…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1881
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Amusements. Theatre Royal
The second performance of "Ours" was witnessed by a very numerous and highly fashionable audience; only a very few seats were unoccupied in the dress circle, while the stalls were crowded, and the spaces filled by spectators…
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The pantomime still attracts very great attention, and is well worthy of patronage. Miss K. Foley continues to amuse the public with her songs, and the scenic arrangements are such as to…
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The doings of "Quilp," one of the most original and masterly creations of Charles Dickens, do not seem to pall in the slightest upon the public taste. There is so much vigour and variety in the…
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"Ours" filled the Theatre Royal again last night, and the excellent acting and mounting of the comedy did not fail to win the approval of the large audience. Tint piece improves upon every…
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The last days of "Quilp" are drawing to a close at the Gaiety, for though there is no falling off in the large attendance, the management are determined their patrons shall not complain of want of…
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Last night saw another successful performance of the glorious pantomime "Jack the Giant Killer" at the Queen's, a performance that, despite the numerous times the entertainment has been…
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Robertson's charming comedy "Ours" was repeated at the Theatre Royal last night to a large and highly appreciative audience, and is evidently fast becoming highly popular with Sydney…
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"Quilp" is now drawing to a close at this theatre for the present, as Mr. Marshall finds the physical strain his powerful pourtrayal demands too great to be longer continued; therefore,…
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"Jack, the Giant Killer," was repeated at the Queen's Theatre last night, for the amusement of a crowded house, and has evidently lost none of its popularity. Long practice has made the…
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The inauguration of a performance of a series of Robertson's brilliant social comedies by the London Comedy Company, at the Theatre Royal, has proved highly successful. Last night "Ours" was repeated…
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No greater evidence of the immense popularity of the effective dramatisation of Dickens's "Old Curiosity Shop" could have been afforded than by the eager crush at the doors of the Gajety Theatre…
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"Jack, the Giant Killer" drew another large audience to the Queen's Theatre last night, and the now familiar marks of approval that the beautiful dresses, artistic scenery, droll witticisms and…
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The collection of o[?] paintings and water colours which Mr. Charles Clarke has brought out from England we designed to meet the taste for works of art which our international Exhibition might…
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Robertson sparkling comedy, "Ours," was repeated at the Theatre Royal last evening, to the evident satisfaction of a large audience. Miss Blanche Stammers' acting in the character of…
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The Austrian Band having just finished a most successful season in Tasmania, left Hobart for Sydney on Saturday, and are expected to arrive to-night. Great preparations are being made for…
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This body of fine musicians, who arrived in Australia some four months since, have during that time given numerous performances as a military and as an orchestral band in the Melbourne Exhibition, the Town Hall, on the…
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After four weeks of uninterrupted prosperity "Quilp" has been withdrawn, and was replaced on Saturday night by "Uncle," one of the latest productions of that prolific writer H. J. Byron; it is entitled a "farcical comedy," and…
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The second week of "Ours" commenced on Saturday night; there was a capital house, and both the scenery and the play excited the liveliest admiration. The curtain was raised after the first and second acts, after the latter, the…
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