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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1904

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Concert to Miss Maud Dalbymple

The Australian Star · Friday 8 January 1904 · page 2

A largely-attended meeting was held at the Hotel Australia yesterday afternoon to make arrangements for a farewell concert to be given in honour of Miss Maud Dalrympie…

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The Lost Ball

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 20

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Amateur Photography. Moonlight Pictures

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 4

The usual method employed in securing the so-called moonlight pictures is to set up the camera facing the object to be photographed, selecting a time of day, when the sun is…

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The Criterion Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

Mr. Charles Holloway's Dramatic Company is playing the exciting drama "Why Woman Sins" at the Criterion Theatre to full houses. The piece will ho repeated to-night and every…

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The Theatre Royal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

A packed house applauds each night the musical and pictorial beauties of the pantomime "The Beauty and the Beast" at the Theatre Royal. The matinees are particularly well…

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The Palace Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

"Mama's New Husband," played by Mr. George Stephenson's American Comedy Company at the Palace Theatre every night, is proving a great draw. The acting of Mr. Charles…

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The Lyceum Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

Mr. William Anderson's latest production at the Lyceum Theatre, "The Great World of London," is proving an unqualified success. Each performance is witnessed and applauded…

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The Tivoli Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

A matinee will be given at the Tivoli Theatre to-day. commencing at half-past 2. The present programme, which is long and excellently diversified, is being enjoyed each night by a large…

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Salvation Army. Austral Guard Band

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 7

To-morrow, at the Salvation Army, Goulburn-street, the Austral Guard Band, No. 2 division, will render in connection with their services vocal and instrumental…

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Engaged People. Should They Dance?

The Australian Star · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 3

It does not speak as well for human nature in its masculine development as it might do that one hears so much more often of men wishing their fiancees to give up…

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Amusements. Her Majesty's Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

Mr. Tree's Company, headed. by Miss Maud Jeffries and Mr. Julius Knight, continue to play "Monsieur Beaucaire" at Her Majesty's Theatre to satisfactorily large and…

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Iroquois Theatre Disaster. London, Jan. 7

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 11

The managers of the iroquois Theatre, Chicago, admit that they had not instructed the employees of the theatre how to act in the event of a fire breaking out,…

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Chicago Theatre Fire. Managers Admit Negligence

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 10

LONDON, Thursday Afternoon.--The managers of the Iroquois Theatre in Chicago, which was destroyed by fire with such terrible loss of life, admit that they did not instruct the employees…

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Lyceum Theatre.—"the Great World of London."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 9

Mr. William Anderson's Dramatic Company is still main taining the interest in Walter Melville's sensational Adel[?] play "The Great World of London," and the conclusion of the second week of the production shows little…

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Theatre Royal.—"the Sleeping Beauty and the Beast."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 9

On Wednesday last there was an overflowing house at the Theatre Royal [?] to witness "The Beauty and the Beast," and among the crowd of [?] present the bright [?] elements that abound in the pantom[?]…

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A Theatre Fire. His Majesty's Aigrette. How a Panic Was Saved

The World's News · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 12

The sad news of the terrible theatre fire in Chicago emphasises once more the fact that when a fire occurs on or behind the stage there is nearly always ample time for the entire…

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Light-hearted Luddenham. Sports, Tea, and Concert on New Year's Day

Nepean Times · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 7

When 'the boys of the village' return to Luddenham at Christmastide from the u[?]termost parts of the State, whence they have fled from drought, etc., it is always…

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Amusements. Miss Sylvia Blackston's Farewell Concert

Freeman's Journal · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 19

At the Town Hall on Tuesday next, the French. Popular prices, 3s, 2s, and Is, will be tendered a complimentary farewell concert prior to her departure for Europe. Having…

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Concert at Lawson

Watchman · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 5

An enjoyable and successful concert was given at Lawson on Boxing night by a number of Sydney amateurs in aid of the local Mechanics' Institute. It was the first concert…

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Benevolent Societies Art Union Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1904 · page 9

The programme of the concert which the committee of the Benevolent Societies' fete is giving in the Town Hall on the 26th inst, is published in our amusement columns. It will be seen that both in quantity and…

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