Two Pictures
It is a treat to sea a Parisienne cross a muddy street. She advances on tip-toe to the edge of the pavement. There she poises like a bird ready for flight, and then deftly she raises her dress no more…
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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1885
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The Gaiety Theatre
The popularity of " Boccaccio." with its sparkling music, stirring choruses, and amusing dialogue and business, appears to be just as great as when the opera was first presented to the Sydney public by the enterprise of Mr…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Amusements. Theatre Royal
The pantomi[?]e is still the attraction at the Theatre Royal, and is likely to be presented there for several days yet, as the engagements with the artists were made for six weeks. In spite of the grandeur of the constumes and the…
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A scared concert of a high class took place in the Pitt-street Congregational Church last evening, the special object of the entertainment being to strengthen the choir music fund. The performers consisted…
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A sacred concert was given at the Pitt-street Congregational Church on Wednesday last by the members of the choir and friends in aid of the Choir Music Fund. The attendance was not a…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Colonists' Ball
The committee appointed to carry out the ball to Commodore Erskine and the late officers of H.M.S. Nelson assuredly deserve the thanks of the community for the excellent manner in which, under…
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The half yearly meeting of the Ashfield Crystal Spring Drum and File Band was held in the Wesleyan school room on Thursday. After the by laws and rules had been adopted, the following officers…
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On Tuesday noon the foundation-stone of what will be the finest theatre yet erected in the Australian colonies was laid by his worship the Mayor, in the presence of a large and influential body of the…
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The ceremony of laying the foundation-stone of Her Majesty's Theatre and Grand Opera-house was performed by his Worship the Mayor (Mr. Thomas Playfair) at noon on Tuesday. The building is to occupy a site immediately…
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The half-yearly meeting of the Ashfield Crystal Spring Dram and Fife Band was held in the Wesleyan school-room on Thursday. After the by-laws and rules had been adopted, tho following officers…
Continued on Trove, page 6 →The Gaiety Theatre --Mr. T. Walker
List evening Mr Thomas Walker d[?]lived a lecture, at the Gaiety Theatre, upon the Cootamundra railway accident. There was only a moderat attendance, and the remarks of the lecturer, which…
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Miss Ivanova will appear for the last time this evening as "Bocca[?]io." To-morrow evening Leoocq's opera bouffe "Manola" will be produced with the grand spectacular "Ballet of Nations."…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →Amusements. Concert at Manly
One of the popular Radcliffe-Rita concerts was given last night at the Ivanhoe Pavilion, Manly, and was attended by an audience unusually large, even for the popular suburb the inhabitants of which support such high-class…
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A well-arranged concert was given last evening at the Randwick Town-hall, is aid of the Presbyterian Church Organ Fund. The performers included Mr. F. J. Hallewell, Mons, de Willimoff, and Herr Max Kauffmann, and…
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Last evening a grand concert was given at the Protestant Hall, by Miss Eva Thompson (Associate of the Royal Academy of Music, London), assisted by members of St. David's Church choir, and pupils and friends. The body…
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We have been requested by Mr. Chas. Huenerbein to announce that Mr. Harry Hydnes's concert, which was appointed to be held this evening in the new Masonic Hall, has been indefinitely postponed, in…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Amusements. Gaiety Theatre
The Landon Onera Company presented "Manola" at [?] Galety Theatre last night. Pleasant reminiscences of [?] excellent manner in which they produced the work during their former visit were evidently the came of their having…
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AN amateur entertainment in aid of the widow and family of the late E. H. Burge, who was accidently drowned while bathing in the Parramatta River in December last, took place…
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It is idle to speak of beauty (says the Queen newspaper) at best when unadorned," for does not Dame Fashion—inconstant and changeful—wage was against the thrifty and wise, and straightway persist in her dictum pronounced for…
Continued on Trove, page 276 →Amusements. Blue Ribbon Band of Hope
AN entertainment in connection with the Blue Ribbon Band of Hope was given at the Centenary schoolroom on Wednesday evening. Mr. J. Smith presided. There was a fair…
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