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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1893

1,749 stories in Sydney's papers · page 12 of 88

Sacred Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 10

A sacred concert of considerable importance will be given at the Pitt-street Congregational Church on Thursday evening next, in aid of the fund for the improvements and additions now being made to the…

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Music and Drama The Promenade Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 493

The People's Promenade Concerts, inaugurated on Saturday evening at the Exhibition-building, in spite of other attractions, received a support which must be encouraging to the promoters, and the…

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Open Air Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 11 March 1893 · page 491

The promoters of the open air fete in aid of the Queensland Flood Relief Fund may fairly claim credit for having introduced us to a class of entertainment that might easily and…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 3

There was an overflowing house at the Gaiety Theatre on Saturday evening, when the World's Star Gaiety Minstrel and Speciality Company appeared with a new…

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Lyseum Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 9

The merry town of Orleaus in the days of yere seems to have had a striking peeuliarity; there people danced as other folks talk, in season and out of season, to assuage…

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The Tivoli Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 3

"Standing room only" was the state of things at the Tivoli on Saturday night, when Mr. Harry Richards and his minstrel and specialty company appeared in an almost…

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People's Promenade Concert

Evening News · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 3

The second of the people's promenade concerts was given in the Exhibition Building on Saturday evening in the presence of an encouraging audience. The attendance had evidently exceeded…

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The Exhibition Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 9

The second of the People's Promenade Concerts was given in the Exhibition Building on Saturday. There was a most encouraging attendance: the seating accommodation was taxed to the atmost, and a…

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The Promenade Concerts

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 March 1893 · page 3

The increase of several hundred in the attendance at the second of the shilling promenade concerts at the Exhibition Building should give the promoters of this popular…

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"Covenant Band."

The Protestant Standard · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 4

This is a new organization in U.S.A. for the suppression of drinking usages. It issues these bits of advice under the heading "What may be done?"…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

Quite a number of people seem to have romembered that yesterday was the Feast of St. Patrick, and of these of goodly few found their way to the Theatre Royal in the evening to witness the revival of "The…

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Lyceum Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

Mr. J. C. Williamson returned to Sydney on Wednesday, and the more immediate result of his visit is the announcement that the London Gaiety Company will, with the revival of "Faust up to Date"…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

In pursuance of the policy he announced when he took his present long lease of the Tivoh Theatre, Mr. Harry Rickards, in the change of programme which is notified for this evening, will introduce a new…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

"Niobe—All Smiles," like the management whose good fortune it has been to strike sparks from cold iron, as it were, and thus to put a bright face upon dull times, has proved a genuine success at the…

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Gaiety Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

A specially attractive programme, introducing a number of novelties, several new artistes, fresh scenery, &c., will be presented this evening by the Gaiety Minstrel and Specialty Company at the…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal

Evening News · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 4

After an absence of many years from the Sydney stage, Miss Clara Stephenson, the well-known and popular actress, made her appearance last night in Boucicault's capital drama, "The…

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Amusements. Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 10

Thanks in great measure to the ingenuity of the mechanical effects and the completeness of the staging which give force and variety to the changeful incidents of "Man to Man," Mr. Rignold's…

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What Happened at the Fancy Ball

The Bird O' Freedom · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 3

You remember Valentine Maxwell, don't you? Well, the other day I chanced to meet him wandering along Pall Mall, with a look of mingled gloom and savagery on…

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Music and Drama Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 545

Melodramatically, the climax has surely been reached in "Man to Man," presented for the first time in Australia on Saturday evening. The fact that the piece has held the stage in London for six…

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New No. 2 Steel Band Mill. (See illustration on this page.)

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 18 March 1893 · page 24

As will be seen from the illustration given, this band mill is a radical change from the previously conceived idea of what a band saw mill ought to be. Many of the standard mills have only one…

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