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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1895

3,075 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 154

Music and Drama The Lyceum Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 377

The announcement of two plays new to Sydney drew an excellent house to the Lyceum Theatre on Saturday evening. The dress circle was especially well filled by numerous theatre parties of ladies and…

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Benefit Concert at Springwood

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 4

On Friday night last a concert and dance took place at the Oriental Hotel, under the auspices of a Committee of eight residents, for the benefit of the four youngest children of the late Charles…

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Concert at Gundagai

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 16

IN its notice of the recent concert in aid of the Gatholic school fund, the Gundagai Times says:— Outside the capitals and even in the capitals we do not remember having heard many better…

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Miss Jacombs's Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 10

Miss Josephine Jacombs, in view of her early departure for England, where she will pursue her studies at the Royal Academy of Music, will give a concert at the Y.M.C. Hall on 13th March. Mr…

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Herr Vollmar's Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 10

Herr Gerard Vollmar, the Dutch 'cel[?]st who made a distingu[?]shed success during the tour of the Cyril Tyler company in Australia and New Zealand, will make his rentree here at his own concert at the…

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Waverley Half-holiday Association Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 10

The members of the Waverley Half-holiday Association entertained a number of their friends at a smoke concert in Lovett's Hall, Waverley, on Thursday evening. The president (Mr. J. Collins)…

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Lantern Lecture and Concert at the Railway Institute

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 10

Last evening a lantern lecture and concert, arranged and carried out by the officers connected with the Railway Institute, took place in the main hall of the building for the benefit of the families of…

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Tramway Employees' Smoke Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 February 1895 · page 10

The first annual smoke concert of the tramway employees was given on Thursday night at Rainford's Cambridge Hotel, and was one of the most successful over held there. The audience,…

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Theatre Royal

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1895 · page 2

Melodrama at the Royal is still proving that there is money in the old house, and that a good company will always draw there. Mr. Holt has secured the very best…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

Truth · Sunday 24 February 1895 · page 2

It is well that the burlesque of "Susan With Two Lovely Bluet Eyes" followed immediately on the heels of "Black Eyed Susan," otherwise we are afraid…

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Theatre Royal

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 3
Also in The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald

Although Mr. Bland Bolt has "a fatal card" up his sleeve, it seems unlikely that there will be an occasion to produce it yet awhile, for "The Union Jack" has…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 6
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Her Majesty's Theatre has always been regarded with favor by the theatre-going public. Saturday night saw a bumper house to witness "Black-eyed Susan,"…

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Amusements. the Lyceum Theatre

Evening News · Monday 25 February 1895 · page 3

A full house and a merry one witnessed the first production in Sydney of Ralph R. Lumley's farce "Aunt Jack" on Saturday night.- The piece is one of those rollicking…

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Lyceum Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 9

The last three performantes of "Aunt Jack," a farcical comedy which ran 200 nights of the Court Theatre, are announced at the Lyceum. A series of rapid revivals to celebrate Mrs. Brough's farewell…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 9

"The Union Jack" will be withdrawn on Saturday in favour of the new drama by Messrs. Chambers and Stephenson, entitled "The Fatal Card." In "The Union Jack" three remarkably strong low…

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Amusements. Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 9

The merry burlesque, "Susan with the Two Lovely Black Eyes," runs in lively fashion at Her Majesty's Theatre, where Miss Forde, Miss Esdaile, the Perman Family, and troops of pretty girls…

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Gospel Choir Concert

Evening News · Wednesday 27 February 1895 · page 3

A concert was given last night in the Presbyterian Church, Newtown, by the Sydney Gospel Choir in aid of the Children's Homes. Alderman William Rigg,…

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