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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1882

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A Theatre Burned

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 25 March 1882 · page 10

LONDON, March 20.—The Bouffe Theatre, in St. Petersburg, has been destroyed by fire. The fire took place during a performance. A panic seized the…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1882 · page 6

Mr. Jos. Pickersgill's benefit at the Theatre Royal on Friday night was so well attended that Mr. Pickersgill must feel assured that his friends in Sydney are numerous and stanch, and the his career as a theatrical agent is likely to be a…

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The Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1882 · page 6

"The Green Lanes of England," by Pettitt and Conquest, was reproduced at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night after an interval of a few weeks. The cast was almost identical with that of former presentations, the exception…

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The Queen's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 27 March 1882 · page 6

Hudson's Surprise Party presented a new programme at the Queen's Theatre on Satruday night. It comprised excellent vacalisms, which were agreeably rendered by male and female artists; and it also included elog dances, negro…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1882 · page 6

Mr. Alfred Dampier, who, during the last six months has been acting at the Gaiety Theatre — and who, during that time has score[?] as many legitia[?]te successes as any actor who of late years has visited Australia has don[?]—…

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Queen's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1882 · page 6

Hudson's Surprise Party still maintain their hold upon popular favour. On Saturday night there was an excellent attendance to witness their entertainment, and the appl[?] from beginning to end was frequent and hearty. The first…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 April 1882 · page 6

"Romeo and Juliet," the touching tragedy, in which Shakespeare tells how the deadly fend between the Montagues and Capulets ended, was produced at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night; and the excellence of the…

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The Want of a First-class Concert Hall in the City. to the Editor of the Sydney Daily Telegraph

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 April 1882 · page 3

In your issue of the 28th ultimo reference is made to the absence of a suitable concert hall in Sydney. The want of a large room has been the downfall of many musical societies here. Experience has shown…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1882 · page 6

"Maritana" was repeated at the Gaiety Theatre last evening, and the performance as a whole was a decided improvement upon that of Saturday. All the principals, with one exception, appeared to be in better form, ana the…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 April 1882 · page 6

"Romeo and Juliet" was repeated at the Theatre Royal last night. This evening "Camille" will be played, and on Thursday evening Miss Louise Pomeroy will take her benefit. On Good Friday night "The Martyr of Antioch"…

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Raworth's Pictures

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 April 1882 · page 3

This fine collection of water-colour pictures-- landscapes and sketches--is to be disposed of in a few days, by an Art Union, under legal sanction. It is to be regretted that the whole series has not…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 April 1882 · page 6

"[?]irofle Girof[?]a" was produced at the Gaiety Theatre last night, and was much more successful than the performance of the previous evening. The audience was large, notwithstanding the unfavourable weather, and applause…

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Queen's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 April 1882 · page 6

The members of Hudson's Surprise Party at the Queen's Theatre will continue to amuse the public for at least another week, it having been found possible to extend the season originally determined upon. Mr. Da[?] Gardner,…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 7 April 1882 · page 6

That Miss Louise Pomeroy should have been instrumental in filling the Theatre Royal every evening for the last six weeks under such combined disadvantages as the alternately hot and rainy weather we have had, and the…

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Ball Dresses

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 14

ONE of the prettiest ball dresses of the season is of cream surah satin and moire. The bodice is of watered silk, with Cream lace arranged in box pleats up the arms from the wrist and to form a collar round the throat…

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Sacred Concert at the Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 8 April 1882 · page 5

A sacred concert, at which selections of popular [?]cane from the works of several great masters were rendered with uniform skill and effect, took place at the Gaiety Theatre last night, in the…

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Queen's Theatre

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 3

The Queen's Theatre was numerously attended on Saturday night, when Hudson's Surprise Party presented another of their highly entertaining and amusing programmes. The first part, as…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 3

The final performance of the English Opera Company was given at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday evening, the opera produced being Balfe's "Bohemian Girl." There was a large attendance,…

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The Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 5

At the Gaiety Theatra on Saturday night "The Bohomian Girl" was played. With this most of the performers were familiar, and the result was a very pleasing entertainment. Mrs. J. H. Fox was the Arline, and sang so…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 10 April 1882 · page 5

When Mr. Bland [?]olt produced "New Babylon" here, we thought that the acme of seneationalism had been reached, for in it were crowded together most of the exciting incidents which occur daily and nightly in the fact life of a…

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