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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1892

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The Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 407

"The Solicitor," presented at this theatre on Saturday last to a crowded audience, is an extravagant farce with a few touches of comedy, a sort of varied edition of "Dr. Bill,"…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 407

The revival of "Faust," a tragedy written by Messrs. Gilbert Parker and George Rignold from the German of Goethe, the English of Marlowe, and the famous legend combined. In some…

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Newcastle Theatre. Newcastle

The Australian Star · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 6

Seldom has such an enthusiastic audience assembled in our theatre as that which greeted the London Bellringers and Faust Family last night. In spite of counter…

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Our Photographic Competition-eleventh Series of Pictures

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 26

Second Fall at Waterfall, National Park. (By Mr, J. R. Yorke, Glenmore-road, Sydney.)…

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Music and Drama. Italian Opera—Theatre Royal

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 407

A most welcome and enjoyable change has been provided in the entertainments of Sydney by the short season of Italian opera, for which we are indebted to the enterprise of Mr. George…

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In Aid of St. Francis', Paddington. Another Concert of the Right Sort

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 15

WE are pleased to be able to add one more to the list of successful Catholic concerts carried out on proper lines. The concert to which we refer was the one in aid of St. Francis's Church,…

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Meredith's Ballad Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 20 February 1892 · page 407

The venture referred to in our last issue was inaugurated on Tuesday evening, and attracted a fairly numerous audience to the Centennial Hall. The performers consist of six vocalists and the…

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A Theatre Burnt

Evening News · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 4

London, February 23.—The theatre at Capetown, at which Mrs. Brown-Potter was fulfilling a professional engagement, has been burnt down. Mrs. Brown-Potter's…

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Burning of a Theatre at Capetown. London, Feb. 23

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 7

The theatre at Capetown has been burned down. The wardrobe of Mrs. Brown-Potter, who was fulfilling a professional engagement at the theatre, was…

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Footlight Flashes. the Italian Opera Company. "Ii Trovatore" and "Rigoleto." a Wonderfully Successful Season. "Faust" at Her Majesty's. Last Nights of "Uncle Tom's Cabin" at the Garrick. Continued Success of "The Solicitor" Meredith's Ballad Concerts—The Alhambra—And Odds and Ends from Everwhere

Referee · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 7

The popularity of the Italian Opera Company now at the Royal shows no sings of decreasing, in fact each succeeding night s[?] the theatre crowded by highly delighted and…

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Footlight Flashes. the Italian Opera Company. "Il Trovatore" and "Rigolette." a Wonderfully Successful Season. "Fast" at Her Majesty's. Continued Successs of "The Solicitor"—[?]oredith's Ballad Concerts—The Alhambarra—And Odds and Ends from Everywhere

Referee · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 7

The popularity of the Italian Opera Company now at the Royal shows no signs of decreasing, in fact each succeeding night sees the theatre crowded by highly delighted and…

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Meredith Ballad Concerts

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 24 February 1892 · page 6

The second concert of the series of the Meredith Ballad Concerts was given last evening in the Centennial hall, the audience being fairly numerous. In addition to the…

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Cadet Band Anniversary

Evening News · Thursday 25 February 1892 · page 2

The members of the band attached to the Cleveland-street Public School Cadet Corps celebrated their second anniversary by a banquet in the Redfern Town Hall last evening. Colonel…

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Band of Hope

The Weekly Advance · Friday 26 February 1892 · page 6

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Auburn Baptist Band of Hope was held at the church on Friday, 19th inst. There was a good attendance of members. The…

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Band of Hope

The Cumberland Mercury · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 6

The usual fortnightly meeting of the Auburn Baptist Band of Hope was held at the church on Friday, 19th inst. There was a good attendance of members. The…

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Modern War Pictures

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 469

There are many delusions which take long to die, and among them, with regard to battles, may be placed the fondly-cherished belief in bayonet charges, and the other belief no less popular, in the close…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 466

The continued support of the public at this theatre is a gratifying proof of the sterling attractions of "Faust," not only as a spectacle, the completeness, variety, and splendour of the…

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The Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 466

"The Solicitor," though, in our opinion, far inferior to many of the modern farce-comedies, and less calculated to place the actors at their best than many productions of the same class at this…

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Our Photographic Competition--twelfth Series of Pictures

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 26

View of Manly Beach. (By Mr. Petterson, Redfern, Sydney.)…

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The Meredith Ballad Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 27 February 1892 · page 466

A second concert of this series was given on Tuesday evening last in the Centennial Hall to a fairly numerous audience, who, whilst receiving the efforts of the performers with marked approval in…

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