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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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mysterious Masked Ball. Novelty in Suburban Entertainments

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 February 1908 · page 10

A mysterious ball has taken place at Shortlands, near Bromley. None of the guests know yet who were their hosts (writes a London paper)…

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Oxford Sunday Concert

Sunday Times · Sunday 16 February 1908 · page 2

A special entertainment of the latest moving pictures, together with illustrated songs, will be given by the London, Biograph. Co. at the Oxford…

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West's Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3

The new pictures at the Glaciarium proved no less popular than is usual on the occasion of the Saturday night change of programme. The variety was as great as patrons of the house have been led to…

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Theatre Royal

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 10
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

"Claudian," witnessed on Saturday night by a large audience, will be produced for only five nights longer, and the last matinee will be given on Wednesday. Mr. Julins Knight plays…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3

The "house full" notices were put up earty on Saturday in the vestibule at the Criterion Theatre, where Mr. Edwin Geach's new dramatic company repeated their successful performance of "Lured to…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3

An especially good programme was submitted at the Tivoli on Saturday and as a result there was acarcely standing room at the afternoon and evening performances. There were several new…

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Amusements. Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 3

The management was obliged to refuse admission to the unreserved portions of Her Majesty's Theatre at 7.45 on Saturday night, and when the curtain rose upon "The Dairymaids," there was not a vacant seat…

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Struck with a Cricket Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 8

TILBA TILBA, Saturday.--During the progress of the cricket match, Tilba Tilba v. Central Tilba, E. Simmons, captain of the home team, met with a nasty accident, a ball running…

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Melba on Art. Australia's Appreciation. Sunday Concerts Advocated

Evening News · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 6

The changes in the outline of the physical Melbourne are for the vision of any homing Victorian, but there should be, to a great artist, a change in the mental boundaries of the city,…

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N.s.w. Institute of Journalists. Inaugural Smoke Concert

Evening News · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 8

There was a thoroughly representative gathering of the reporting and editorial staffs of the Sydney newspapers at Aaron's Exchange Hotel on Saturday night, when the inaugural…

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Town-hall Concert

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 17 February 1908 · page 10

Recitals by local organists do not usually attract large audiences to the Town-hall, but Miss. Alice Bryant, who presided at the great organ last Saturday evening, and who is…

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At Clifton Gardens Liedertafel Club Concert Music Without Moonshine

The Australian Star · Tuesday 18 February 1908 · page 2

The "moonlight excursion and concert," arranged by the Sydney Liedertafel Club, cams off last night, At 8 o'clock the steamer Koo-kooburra let Fort Macquarie for Clifton…

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West's Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 12

The usual Wednesday, matinee of West's pictures will be given at the Glaciarium to-day, commencing at 2.30 p.m. The programme is an exceptionally good one, containing as it does an admirable and artistic series of…

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Criterion Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 2
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

Mr. Edwin Geach's Dramatic Company, under the management of Mr. George Marlow, is doing a phenomenal business with "Lured to London," so much…

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Theatre Royal

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 12

"Claudian," with its scenes of ancient Byzantium, and its big earthquake, in which the stage becomes a heap of ruins, will run for nine nights longer at the Theatre Royal, the original intention to revive "Brigadier Gerard"…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 12

This afternoon and evening Mr. Harry Rickards' Company will be headed by the Kies Sistens, whose aerial feats stand quite unrivalled. The Brothers Artois in their comedy bar-act, lke and Will Scott, the Cunards,…

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Queen's Hall Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 12

The London Bio-Tableaux entertainments at Queen's Hall will be continued both afternoon and evening to-day. Humorous and dramatic subjects and scenes from distant lands will be included in an attractive…

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Palace Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 19 February 1908 · page 2

Mr. Spencer has quickly got to work with his new picture show at the Palace Theatre, his intention evidently being to put his Lyceum seasons completely in the…

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