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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1891

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Melbourne Theatre Royal

The Australian Star · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Tuesday.-- The Theater Royal proprietors propose to try management on their own account, with Mr. George Coppin as a director…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 8

Mr. Graitan Riggs, in his amusing interpretation of arthur Tracey, the clever detective, has been greatly applauded since Saturday. His various impersonations are decidedly ingenious, and highly entertaining…

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Concert at the Town Hall

The Cumberland Mercury · Wednesday 11 February 1891 · page 2

A MOST fashionable and appreciative audience —if not, perhaps, a very large one—attended at the Town Hall, Parramatta, on Monday evening week, the occasion being a concert in…

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Band of Mercy, Randwick

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 3

A meeting of the above was hold in the Town Hall on Tuesday evening, when the large auditorium was crowded, despite the unpropttious weathor. No doub[?] the fact that special prizes for voual music and…

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Amusements. Philharmonic Society's Concert. the Golden Legend

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1891 · page 6

At the grand concert given by the Philharmonic Society last evening in the Centennial Hall fresh laurels wore triumpbantly earned and the society has a quired a higher position than over it has previously…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

Mr. Harry Rickards's popular company has attracted crowded houses at the Gaiety nightly during the past week, and will in all probability do so for the remainder of its limited season of four weeks, after which Mr…

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The Garrick Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 351

The brilliant season of Mr. Charles Cartwrigh and Miss Olga Nethersole has ended all too soon "The Idler" has from the first appealed most powerfully to the sympathies and admiration of…

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The Theatre Royal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 351

Mr. Grattan Riggs appeared on Saturday last in "The Irish Detective," in which he has already secured on excellent reputation for the clever character sketches which belong to the part he…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 351

"Dick Whittington" will this (Saturday) evening celebrate his jubilee at Her Majesty's, and the pantomime will be played for the last time. "Arrah-na-Pogue" will be revived on an…

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The Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 351

"Comrades," which has much to interest an audience, and has been admirably played by several members of the cast, has had but a two weeks' life, and will this evening be…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 14 February 1891 · page 10

Mr. Grattan Riggs, whose clever impersonations in "The Irish Detective" have been much appreciated during the week, will appear this evening in "Eileen Oge; or, Dark's the Hour before the Dawn," a…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 3

With its fiftieth representation the highly successful run of the pantomime of "Dick Whittington and his Cat" came to an end on Saturday last. Mr. Rignold will revive "Arrab-na-Pogue" to-night, with Miss…

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The Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 3

The Rickards Comedy and Specialty Company are drawing large audiences, and the entertainments given at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday were no exception to this rule. Mr. Rickards is too keen a student of…

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Amusements. the Garrick Theatre.—english Opera

Evening News · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 6

On Saturday evening a season of English opera was commenced in the Garrick Theatre, in Castlereagh-street, under most favorable auspices. The opera selected for the occasion was the evergreen…

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Amusements. Irish Drama at the Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 3

Whatever wrongs old Ireland may have suffered, she cannot complain of her treatment on the stage. Her sorrows and her joys have been illustrated times out of number by dramatists, but never more powerfully than…

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Parade of a Cavalry Band. [By Telegraph.] (From Our Correspondent.) West Maitland

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 16 February 1891 · page 5

The first parade of the newly-formed cavalry band in connection with the New South Wales Cavalry took place on the park this afternoon, in the presence of warrant Officer Thompson, of Sydney. The Maitland…

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Amusements. "Arrah-na-pogue" at Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 17 February 1891 · page 6

The striking feature of Mr. George Rignold's management is thoroughness. If a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well. No matter whether it be tragedy or comedy, farce or drama,…

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The Railway Band

The Australian Star · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 5

AMONG the recently formed societies in connection with the Railway Department there is none making better progress than the railway band. It now numbers…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 8

The late Edward Falconer's cleverly-constructed Irish drama, "Eileen Oge," so well played by Mr. Grattan Riggs and his company, will be continued in the bills until Saturday next, when it will be replaced…

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The Shearing Trouble. Ominous Outlook. an Armed and Mounted Band Galloping to Intercept the Police

Evening News · Wednesday 18 February 1891 · page 5

BRISBANE, Tuesday.—Over 300 men, including all sorts and conditions, one-third being armed to the teeth, have left Barcaldine on horseback, having purchased all the arms and ammunition…

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