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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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Arnott's Living Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 5

Mrs. G. Coppins, Gipps-street, Arncliffe. Mrs. G. W. Burgess Tennyson, Port Pirie, South Australia. Mrs. Rawson, 81 Rose-street, Darlington…

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N.s.w. State Military Band

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 2

The State Military Band will play the following programme in Hyde Park tonight, at 8 o'clock:--March, "The Bride Elect" (Sousa); overture, "Guy Mannering"…

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The Dance at the Cross-roads

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 27

On the ditch, quite lonesome seeming, 'Mid a group of merry swains, I'm sitting watching faces beaming, Lighted by the striking strains…

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Suggestion for London Theatre Managers

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 14

The hat question is arousing angry passions in the playgoers in Paris. A manager has come forward with a brilliant scheme to subdue the crisis. He offers a prize to the…

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How Ireland Is Taxed. Where "Freetrade" England Raises Her Revenue. Some Astonishing Pictures

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 8

The total revenue as contributed by Ireland to the British Government for the year ending March 31, 1907, is returned by the British Treasury as £9,490,000…

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The Test Match Australia's Moderate Display Crawford Shows True Form with the Ball Notes and Comments Melbourne

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 1

One viewed the play in the second test match at Melbourne yesterday with mingled feelings of chagrin at the display we put up, and admiration for the very strenuous effort…

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Highland Society's Concert

Evening News · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 3

The concert of "Auld Scotch Sangs," at the Sydney Town Hall, on New Year's night, was attended by an audience which filled every part of the building. An attractive programme was…

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Concert at the Town Hall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 6

The Highland Society's New Year's Night concert has now developed into a recognised Institution, founded upon the popularity arising from a conservative choice of national…

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Music of Scotland New Year's Concert at the Town Hall

The Australian Star · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 2

Edward Macdowell, who stands first among living American composers, delivered himself in this style in one of his University, lectures:--…

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"Auld Scots Sangs." Concert at the Town-hall

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 2 January 1908 · page 5

The Town-hall was packed in the evening, when the "Grand annual New Year's Nicht concert of Auld Scots' sangs" was given. A programme of more than average excellence was…

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"The Band of Mercy."

The Sydney Stock and Station Journal · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 3

The charming monthly paper edited by Miss Frances Levvy, is doing good work in inculculating the love of animals into the hearts and minds of…

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Mme. Sherwin's Choral Concert

Evening News · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 2

At the Sydney Town Hall to-morrow evening time. Amy Sherwin will make a second appearance, when, as before, the operatic soprano will be supported by her New ladies…

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Amusements. Madame Sherwin's Choral Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 3 January 1908 · page 5

To-morrow evening, at the Town Hall, owing to the pronounced success of her first conecrt, Madame Amy Sherwin will make a second appearance, when as before, the operatic soprano will be supported by her…

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West's Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 15

The popularity of West's Pictures continues unabated at the Glaciarium. There have been crowded attendances nightly throughout the past week, and at the matinees. There will be the usual Saturday matinee…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 15

This afternoon and evening Mr. Harry Rickards's company will be joined by Mr. Herbert Lamartine, eccentric dancer, baton spinner, and vocalist, newly arrived from London. Mr. Edwin Boyde's…

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Victoria Hall Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 15

There will be a holiday matinee at Victoria Hall, where also in the evening the American Picturescope Company will show new tableaux, in which some of the latest importations, both humorous and dramatic,…

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Palace Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 15

This afternoon there will be an extra holiday matinee of "Cinderella" at the Palace Theatre, where Messrs. Anderson and Sheridan's new pantomime presents processions, ballets, topical songs, a strong part…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 15

"When Knights Were Bold" is proving highly attractive at the Criterion Theatre, where it is long since anything has been staged as funny as the scene in which Mr. Frank Thornton (as Sir Guy) wakes up…

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Theatre Royal

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1908 · page 15
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

The romantic interest of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" has established it in popular favor, and the clever acting of Mr. Julius, Knight as Sit Percy Blukency, Miss Ola Humpurey as lady Blakeny, and Mr. Leslid Victor as…

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