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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1896

3,420 stories in Sydney's papers · page 2 of 171

Lyceum Theatre

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 13

The return and reappearance of the Brough and Boucicault Company gave evident pleasure to the theatre-going public in the large muster at the Lyceum on Boxing Night. Though presenting old…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 10

Mr. Tom Pollard's Lilliputian Opera Company will to-night revive "Uncle Tom's Cabin," with elaborate scenery, showing the " Escape of Eliza Across the Ice-floes," the " Chasm in the…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 10

In the now programme for this afternoon and evening at the Tivoli Theatre. Miss Alice Leamar will repeat her latest success " I went to Paris with Papa," and will also sing " Salute My Bicycle,"…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 10

Large audiences continue to fill the Theatre Royal, where "Pat, or the Belles of Rathbeal " owes its success to the beautiful staging, pretty music, and comic interpretation which Mr C. B…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 10
Also in The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser

There will be an afternoon performance of "Robinson Crusoe" at Her Majesty's Theatre, beginning at 2 o'clock to-day and in the evening the pantomime will be repeated. Miss Marie Luella…

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Amusements, Lyceum Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 10

"John a Dreams," the new four-act drama hy Mr. C. Haddon Chambers, to be produced at the Lyceum Theatre to-night, was originally introduced at the Haymarket Theatre last November year. The author…

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The Accident In the Theatre

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 4

Mies Florence O'Brien is still suffering from the effects of the injuries received through the sensational jump…

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"Pat" at the Theatre Royal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 6

The comedy "Pat" at the Theatre Royal is still a strong order with the theatre going public, and the variety turns with which it is permeated make it a peculiarly…

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Fire in a Theatre. a Terrible Scene. Twenty-four Persons Killed

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 12

LONDON, December 28—An alarm of fire was given during the performance at a theatre in Baltimore, United States, last night. A panic ensued among the audience,…

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A Sensation in a Theatre. an Attempted Suicide. a Dive From the Gallery

Australian Town and Country Journal · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 42

A sensational incident occurred at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, on December 26, when a young man named Charles Smith sought to destroy himself by taking a "header" from the…

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Charity Concert at Hunter's Hill

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 19

IT is now nearly four years since several gentlemen at Hunter's Hill decided to organize themselves into a body under the standard of the St. Vincent de Paul Society. With the object of obtaining sufficient…

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Deaf and Dumb Institute, Waratah. the Concert at Newcastle

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 20

As predicted in your last issue (writes our Newcastle correspondent), the Victoria Theatre was packed on Thursday evening, when the concert in aid of the Deaf and Dumb Institution at Waratah…

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School Concert at Murrumburrah

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 16

THE entertainment in aid of the convent-schocl, in which the pupils were assisted by local and visiting amateurs, was a great success. The large schoolroom was crammed, and the whole programme,…

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Music and Drama Christmas Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 13

There were three important concerts given in Sydney on Christmas night, of which, undoubtedly, that given by the Philharmonic Society takes premier rank…

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The Trebelli Concerts

The Sydney Mail and New South Wales Advertiser · Saturday 4 January 1896 · page 13

One of the many charms attending the auditor at these concerts is the ease and purity with which the prim a donna pronounces every syllable and word, whether in her native French, English, or…

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Lyceum Theatre

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1896 · page 2

YESTERNIGHT witnessed a crowded and fashionable audience assemble in the Lyceum Theatre to witness the production of Mr Haddon Chambers' smartly written romantic…

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Theatre Royal

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1896 · page 2

BUSINESS continues to hum at the Theatre Royal where westmacott and his merry crew delight the world and his wife with the beauties of 'Pat, or the Bells of Rath beal.'…

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Criterion Theatre

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1896 · page 2

The season of Pollard's Lillputions at the Criterian should boom to biggest dimensions. The Comic Opera Company has in rapid succession produced Olivette,' 'Paul Jones,'…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1896 · page 2

A SECOND visit confirms the impressions that 'Robinson Crusoe' improves by repetition. Bobby watson's performance of Mr. Crusoe stands not conspicuously throughout so does…

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