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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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Pictures of the Week. 0Third Test Match. Scenes Around Mackay

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1908 · page 3

Everyone should be pleased with the issue of the "Town and Country Journal," the leading illustrated weekly in Australia, to be published to-morrow, for it will contain a most varied and…

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"West's Pictures."

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 14

A very fine programme is that with which West's Pictures are now attracting large audiences to the Glaclarium. The local swimming pictures taken at the Rose Bay Baths by Mr. West, and produced for the first…

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State Military Band

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 14

The fourth annual meeting of the State Military Band was held at the New Masonic-hall last night. The report congratulated the members upon the continued success of the band,…

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Rozelle Brass Band

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 8

The Rozelle District Brass Band held a successful moonlight excursion to The Avenue, Lane Cove River, last evening. The commodious and handsome concert steamer…

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Glaciarium.—west's Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12

Mr. T. J. West's new budget, of pictures for this afternoon and evening at the Glaciarium will include "The Clown's Story." "The Mystery of a Cab," "Norwegian Wood Industry," "The Pirates," and the new…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12

This afternoon and evening, at the Tivoli Theatre, Mr. Harry Richards's company will open in the new first part "La Danse de Rubans," with new music cleverly scored and composed by Bert Rache, in which…

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Palace Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12
Also in Sydney Sportsman

The seventh "Cinderella" matinee is notified by Messrs. Anderson and Sheridan at the Palace Theatre. The new pantomine faithfully outlines the adventures of the pretty heroine (Miss Heba Barlow), whilst Mr…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12

A special family matinee of "When knights were Bold" is announced for to-day by Mr. Edwin Geach, at the Criterion Theatre where Mr. Frank Thomton causes continuous merriment by the humour and strong…

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Theatre Royal

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 6
Also in The Daily Telegraph, The Sydney Morning Herald

"The Scarlet Pimpernel," going strongly at the Royal to crowded houses nightly, is one of the best things in romantic drama that the Commonwealth has…

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Cetterion Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 6

"When Knights Were Bold" is a well constructed piece, crammed with good things. Its humor is of a healthy order, and when one comes to size up this shew…

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Victoria Hall Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12

This afternoon and evening, at Victoria Hall, Pitt and Park-streets the American Pictureseope Company, will exhibit the latest moving tableaux of current events, combined with humorous and dramatic…

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The Charity Ball

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 14

Hope Meredith stood in her trim riding habit, a neat, upright little figure, with that unmistakable air of distinction and breeding which many people find preferable to beauty…

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The Glaciarium—west's Pictures

Referee · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12

Another [?]no programme is being prevented at the Glaciarium. There are many new features, a notable one being that of a pictorial story aptly c[?]ied…

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Amusements. Her Majesty's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 12

This afternoon the fourth matinee will be given of "The Girls of Gotterberg" at Her Majesty's Theatre, where the bright garrison choruses of the opening, the dashing girl-students in the second scene, and a long…

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Music and Drama. Her Majesty's Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 6

"The Girls of Gottenberg" have now fairly added the Sydney scarp to their girdles, and one of the maddest, merriest evenings of fun and frolic may be…

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Scenes from "Cinderella," now being played at the Palace Theatre, Sydney

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 39

Messrs. John F. Sheridan and J. Lanphier as the Baroness and Baron. Mr. John F. Sheridan as the Baroness…

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A Budget of Pictures. Cricket, Swimming, and Races. Views of Mackay (Q.) and Bundarea

Evening News · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 3

For up-to-dateness interest, and attractiveness, there is no paper in Australia to equal our popular weekly, the "Town and Country Journal." The issue published to-day is a capital…

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