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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts
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On Saturday Inst the tenth anniversary of the Hope of St. Marys, Lodge, No.225, was celebrated by a tea meeting and concert in the Protestant Hall. The commemoration was in all matters a…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Saturday was indeed a gala day for the residents of this district and its environs. When at 7 p.m. quite a crowd assembled at the Protestant Hall, by 7.30 the building was filled to its atmost capacity…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Gilbert and Sullivan's "Princess Ida" has run another week at the Theatre Royal, and judging from the applanse bestowed upon the several actors and the encores demanded on Saturday evening, the opera could run for some…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →At the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday night "Hamlet" was produced to an audience that completely filled all the lower parts of the auditorium, and made a respectable show in the dress circle. The tragedy has been so often produced…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →"Venns and Adonis" was repeated at the Royal Standard Theatre on Saturday night, to a fairly good house, and the burlesque was received with marked favour, encores being frequent. The singing and dancing, the bright…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The mystic play of "Faust" still holds its own at Her Majesty's Theatre. On Saturday evening there was a very large audience, and everything passed off successfully. The Mephistopheles of Mr. George Rignold was vigorously…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →Robert Buchanan's three-act comedy, entitled "The Bachelors," was produced at the Criterion Theatre, on Saturday night, in the presence of a crowded house, every available seat being taken, and many persons having to…
Continued on Trove, page 5 →The dramatisation of Marcus Clarke's universally-read novel "For the term of his natural life," was reproduced at the Gaiety Theatre last night, before a large audience, and the efforts of Miss Dampier, Mr. Dampier, and the rest…
Continued on Trove, page 10 →The extent of interest shown in the production of Cellier's "Dorothy" may be seen by the fact that every seat in the circle and boxes was engaged in leas than an hour after the box office was opened. It is announced by advertisement…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →The English collection of pictures for exhibition at the Melbourne Centennial Exhibition will be shipped by the R.M.S. Rome on the 17th instant. Mr. Goodman, the curator of…
Continued on Trove, page 7 →The third of the "ladies' concerts" of the Orpheus Club took place last evening—this time at the Y.M.C.A. Hall, Pitt-street. The attendance was larger than on former occasions, and the concert was certainly equal to its…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Last night the first portion of the programme arranged for the farewell benefit tendered to Mr. Dampier took place before a large andience, the piece chosen for the occasion [?]oing the " Merchant of Venice." Mr. Dampier appeared…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →"Princess Ida" has drawn excellent business to the Theatre Royal during the past week; the pungent satire of the libretto and the complete ascendancy given to the sterner sex, with the entire collapse of the…
Continued on Trove, page 950 →The ball held here in aid of the Luddenham Jockey Club on Thursday 26th instant, was a brilliant success. There were fully forty couples present, all of whom seemed…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →The popular three-act comedy " Bachelors " has been on the boards during the past week, and has been a pronounced success. The central figure, Rufus Marrable, Q.C., the good-natured though at times testy old barrister, has…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →To-night the Gaiety Theatre will be opened by Messrs. Rainford, Barry, and Herbert for a fresh dramatic season, when "Foiled," a powerful drama written by the late Walter Cooper, and which has been successful both here…
Continued on Trove, page 11 →The tragic story of Faust's victim, and the gorgeous spectacular effects with which the creation of Goethe, as adapted by Mr. Gilbert Parker, is surrounded, continue to be the attractions at Her Majesty's Theatre…
Continued on Trove, page 950 →"Dorothy," the popular comedy-opera, by B. C. Stephenson and Alfred, Cellier, which is to be heard for the first time in Sydney to-night, was originally produced at the Gaiety Theatre, Loddon, on September 25, 1886. At the…
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