Gaiety Theatre
After a successful run of the Irish Detective, Mr Graftan Biggs produced on Saturday night a drama, entitled Shin Fans, which the programme is pleased to call "powerful [?] poetic." There…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1884
484 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 25
Amusements. Theatre Royal
Miss Genevieve Ward appeared at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night for the first time in Sydney, and achieved a decided success, for the house was crowded, and at the close of each act the principals were recalled, while to Mirs Ward…
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MELBOURNE, Sunday.--A disgraceful disturbance occurred on Saturday night, at the Theatre Royal, during the performance of "New Magdalen." The gods were so uproarious that Miss…
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The third annual hall of the club took place on Thursday night last, at Nithedale (Need's rooms), there being about 130 ladies and gentlemen present. The whole of the cosy rooms were thrown…
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On Saturday night Messrs Grove and Merivale's original play " Forget Me Not" was produced for the first time in Sydney at the Theatre Royal. It cannot be doubted bat that the very large…
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The Protestant Hall on Saturday night was throrged in every part, and a programme of the variety type was given. There was a minstrel farce, high pedestal dance, humorous songs, and…
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The drama of "Shin Fane" was repeated last night to a good house, Mr. Grattan Riggs's clever and humorous assumption of the part of the faithful and ready-witted Irish peasant, Suil Gair, keeping…
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The Sydney Dramatic Company played “The Colleen Bawn” to a very poor house at the Victoria Theatre on Saturday evening last The play was well mounted, the cave…
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It will be remembered that the conference of clergymen convened by Bishop Barry to consider the question of religious instruction in Public schools appointed a committee to report…
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A complimentary ball was tendered to Mr. E. D. Tollemache, the manager for the Compaction Catering Company on Thursday last, by the employes of the company and friends of that gentleman. About…
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ON Friday evening, the 8th June, the Penrith Mechanics held their annual ball. The attendance was not as large as was anticipated and the affair was not a success, financially. Long before the…
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The Town Hall is the largest available dancing room (bar the Exhibition Building) in Sydney, and on Thursday night, when the Owls held their third annual ball it was scarcely spacious enough for all…
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The Installation ba[?] in connection with the Masonic lodge, Parramatta St. George, 1943 (E.C.), took place in the Masonic Hall, Parramatta, last night. There were about 80 couples…
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WELL done "Cynic," my friend, put your little hand in mine. I swear tip too with lifted hands that I am—as Ted Tucker use to say—strangely delighted with your well chosen remarks to…
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SIR,—As the honor of making a donation of the printing (which is worth about £10) for the late Gaffey concert has been accredited to me, and to me only, I feel it to be due to the…
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On Saturday night "Forget Me Not" drew an immense audience, which made standing room at a premium in every part [?] the Theatre Royal, It so often happens, under the management of Messrs…
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The success of the third annual ball on Thursday night last will not ba easily forgotten by those who were fortuna'e enongh to be present. The committee worked bard to make it purpass…
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The manager of the Compagnoni Catering Company, Mr E. D. Tollemacbe, was, on Thursday evening last, the recipient of a complimentary hall, tendered to him by the employees of the…
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Last evening " Fun on the Bristol" was performed in the Gaiety Theatre for the first time. It is many a day since the seats and standing room of this theatre were taxed to accommodate as many playgoers aa they were last night…
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The stumbling block, in the shape of the butcher's shop, that has impeded the building of Her Majesty's Theatre and Opera House is now being removed and the excavation for the foundations is being…
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