Masonic Hall Concert
The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 January 1883 · page 6
The concert given in the Masonic Hall on Saturday evening was not as largely attended as its merits deseved, a fact due no doubt to the imclement weather prevailing during the time when the audience assembled. The concert…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 January 1883 · page 6
The Highland Society's musical reunion takes place as will be seen by advertisement and programme in the "late" advertisement column, this evening, at the Protestant Hall. The music is nearly all Scotch, and will doubtlese be done…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1883 · page 6
As a fitting conclusion to the successful demonstration carried out yesterday, under the auspices of the Highland Society, a concert was given in the evening by the Highland Society's Musical Union in the Protestant Hall. The…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 6 January 1883 · page 7
Come from the region of tramcars and 'buses. Get the smoke and whistle, the duet and the rattle, out of eyes and cars. Leave the thoroughfares filled with crowding forms, and the forms no less filled with crowding thoughts, and…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 54
We can't spend all our time looking at John Jubb. His scarred and seamy face, with the dirty red splashes of misused health on cheek and brow, will keep until we want him; such a man seldom dies young. The gods don't…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 9
It is hard to say when the popularity of the pantomime at the Royal will begin to wane, for no diminution of public interest, is apparent at present. Last night every part of the House was again crowded, and both the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 27
ONE of the most successful affairs of the kind ever held in the district was that in aid of the R. C. Presbytery, which took place in the Assembly Rooms on Boxing Night. Father Ryan and a troupe of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 13 January 1883 · page 9
A vocal and instrumental concert was, last evening, given in the Protesrant Hall, with the object of supplementing the fund being raised to reward the brave Italian and French sailors who so gallantly saved the greater number of…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1883 · page 8
At the Gaiety, on Saturday night, was produced, far the first time in Australia, a four-act drama, entitled "Fighting Fortune," by Frank Scudamore. Notwithstanding the very disagreeble weather the house was well filled, and the…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 15 January 1883 · page 8
The Christmas pantomimo continues to hold its way at the Theatre Royal, for whether it be the beautiful scenery from the brush of Mr. George Gorden, the rich and tasteful dresses of the company, or the entertaining dialogue and…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 16 January 1883 · page 8
A concert of which the programme was made up almost entirely of Scotch songs was given last evening in the Protestant Hall. It was intended to celebrate the occasion of what is known us "Auld Hansel Monday," being…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 17 January 1883 · page 8
There was another fine house at the Royal last night to witness "Aladdin," and the burlesque and harlequinade were received with as much appreciation as ever…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 18 January 1883 · page 9
The Times gives the following particulars of the destruction of the Alhambra Thtatre on the 6th December last:—The fire broke out at 5 minutes past 1 a.m. Ald came, but the flames were all powerful, and resited the…
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Sydney Punch · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 3
A legal-and-smart young man, A take-my-own-part-young-man, An "although I'm-not-old-I'm-plucky-and-bold And-fight-for-my-friends-young man."…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 125
The Times gives the following particulars of the destruction of the Alhambra Theatre on the 6th December last:—The fire broke out at 5 minutes past 1 a.m. Aid came, but the flames were all powerful, and resisted the…
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Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 January 1883 · page 30
The remainder of the evening, while in the presence of the beautiful Miss Leicester, sped as if on wings to Kenneth. Before the guests retired she led him again to…
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The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 22 January 1883 · page 8
"The Shingha[?]," a work described as a "modern romantic Irish drama," was produced at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night, before on audience which was large and also thorounghly appreciative, in the sense that a great…
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The Sydney Daily Telegraph · Saturday 27 January 1883 · page 5
The following from Land and Water will, no doubt, be read with interest by footballers in general:--"The sacred symbol of the Rugby Unionists, the…
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The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 January 1883 · page 186
Seldom has there been a scene with more elements of dramatic interest than that which the Globe Theatre presented on Saturday evening. A popular house reopened under the management of a pretty and popular actress, Mrs…
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Evening News · Saturday 27 January 1883 · page 7
Waiting all considerations as to the policy of appropriating two entire evenings for the works of Handel, while Mendelssohn and Mozart were bo slenderly represented and Haydn not at all, it must be…
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