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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1891

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The Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 663

"School" still draws large houses and sends the people away thoroughly pleated. The Namoi Tighe and the Bella place Miss Emme Temple and Miss Pattie Brown in such attractive lights…

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The Gaiety Theatre

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 10
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

THIS popular place of amusement was opened on Saturday evening last by a variety company of 30 star artists, headed by Miss Lizzio Hastings from " The Gaiety," London, and so pronounced has…

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Music and Drama. The Garrick Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 663

After a week's very creditable performance of "Mignon," this interesting opera was on Monday last replaced by Gounod's masterpiece, "Faust," an opera which is second to none in popularity,…

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The National Concert

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 15

At night a large audience assembled at the New Masonic Hall, at which it had been announced that the Irish National concert would take place, the proceeds of which would supplement the day's…

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Concerts

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 21 March 1891 · page 6

Miss Frances Saville's farewell and benefit concert will take place at the Centennial-hall to-night, when the beat guarantee for a hearty support lies in the fact that the popular…

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Theatre Royal

Evening News · Monday 23 March 1891 · page 3

That stirring drama, " The Union Jack," by Messrs. Pettitt and Grundy, succeeded " Master and Man" on Saturday night. " The Union Jack" was originally produced in this city in…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1891 · page 9

" Master and Man," after a successful run of three weeks, gave way on Saturday night to a revival of "The Union Jack." The Thestre Royal was crowded in all parts, an enthusisstic reception being accorded to…

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Miss Frances Saville's Farewell Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 23 March 1891 · page 9

That so prominant an artists as Miss Frances Saville should not be suffered to leave Sydney without some special recognition of her position in our musical world being evidenced is only natural, and the announcement…

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Public School Concert

The Australian Star · Tuesday 24 March 1891 · page 6

JUNEE, Monday.--The children attending the Junee Junction Public School held a most 'successful concert in the Assembly Hall on Friday evening, March 20. The…

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Footlight Flashes. Easter Holiday Attrac-tions. Changes on Saturday. "The Golden Ladder." "My Jack." JOHN F. SHERIDAN. "Bridget O'Brien, Esq."—"The Schoolmistress"—Miss Maggle Moore—close of the Opera Season—A Big Show at the Alhambra—Tracey's Vaudeville Company—Harbor Concerts—Bondi, Botany and Coogee — The cyclorama—Wild America—Odd Notes, &c

Referee · Wednesday 25 March 1891 · page 7

Managers are preparing for the Easter Holidays, and special attractions will be put on for the benefit of sundry and divers people who generally come down to the city form the…

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Exchange of Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 4

No definite arrangements have yet been made in furtherance of the movement to secure an interchange of pictures between the Art Galleries of Sydney and Melbourne. The idea…

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Amusements. Philharmonic Society's Concert— "The Crown of Thorns."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 26 March 1891 · page 8

The Philharmonic Society, having elected to give a concert in Holy Week, showed a praiseworthy desire to choose a work appropriate to the season, and succeeded in finding in Packer's "Crown of Thorns" one of…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 687

"The Union Jack" was revived at the Theatre Royal on Saturday for five nights, pending the production of "The Golden Ladder." The exciting episodes in life on land and sea, as set…

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The Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 687

"School" played with excellent results up till Thursday evening. To-night a complete change will be made, and "The Schoolmistress," a play written originally, it is believed, for Miss Minnie…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 687

Here on Saturday night was produced the "Child of the Regiment," a version of the story of Messrs. Layard and St. George's, to which Donizetti in 1840 set the music as a vaudeville,…

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Notes on New Pictures, &c. Art Notes

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 6

THE latest addition to our National Gallery is a small oil painting by Hans Herrmann of the Port of Flushing. The fishermen and women, in their quaint costumes,…

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Notes on New Pictures, &c. Art Notes

Illustrated Sydney News · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 6

THE latest addition to our National Gallery is a small oil painting by Hans Herrmann of the Port of Flushing. The fishermen and women, in their quaint costumes,…

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Evening Concerts

Evening News · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 5

Her Majesty's Theatre has become celebrated for the artistic excellence of the sacred concerts it submits each Good Friday. Many of the foremost vocalists, pianists, and violinists of Australia and…

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Concert and Art-union at Young

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 28 March 1891 · page 15

ST. Patrick's Day was celebrated with more than ordinary enthusiasm this year at Young. The pienic and athletic sports were largely attended over 1000 people passed through the gates. In…

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