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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1908

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Bat and Ball. the Third Test Hatch. England Leads on the First Innings by 78, Knocks and Notches

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 7

Has a Bara-Avis been discovered, or is it merely the brilliance of a shooting star? Amongst the multitudinous wants of this strenuous world, "Wanted a bowler" has been…

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Late Cable News. Received This Morning. Another Holoeaust at an American Theatre. Great Loss of Life. Frightful Scenes

Evening News · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 4

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.—Daring a cinematograph entertainment at the Rhoades Opera House, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, an explosion occurred among the apparatus. Getting fire to…

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Eighty Killed Another American Calamity Panic-stricken Women and Children Set a Theatre on Fire Scenes of Indescribable Horror. London, Tuesday, 2.50 p.m

The Australian Star · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 1

Eighty persons killed and 100 others injured--such was the appalling result of an explosion that occurred yesterday in the Rhoades Opera Houses at Boyertown,…

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School of Arts Concert

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 15 January 1908 · page 14

A concert organised by Mr. Tom Hazel, of Paddington, was given at the Sydney School of Arts last night. The programme included songs and recitations by a number of children, who exhibited a good deal of promise, and…

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Newtown Band

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 1

The Newtown Brass Band will play on the Newtown Railway Bridge to-night at 8 o'clock, under the conductorship of Mr. Thomas Mellor…

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State Military Band

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 7
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The fourth annual meeting of the New South Wales State Military Band was held on Tuesday evening at the New Mas[?] Ball, Cast[?]agh-steet. Colonel G. W…

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Theatre Fires Some Memorable Disasters Recalled by the Pennsylvanian Calamity

The Australian Star · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 7

That terribly disastrous fire in a Pennsylvania theatre of which the cable yesterday gave such sensational details recalls some previous disasters of the kind. Theatre fires…

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Opera House Horror. Children Trampled and Burned. Theatre a Roaring Furnace. Defective Apparatus

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 7

LONDON, Tuesday Afternoon.--Further particulars as to the fire in connection with the working of a cinematograph in the Rhodes Opera House, in Boyertown,…

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Appalling Calamity. Theatre a Raging Furnace. Fighting for Life. Women Trampled Down. Parents Sacrifice Themselves. London, Jan. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 7

The explosion in connection with a cinematograph which was being worked at an entertainment in the Rhoades Opera House, Boyertown, Pennsylvania, caused…

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In Aid ol the Waitara Foundling Home. a Successful Concert

The Catholic Press · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 13

A very successful concert, in aid of the babes of Waitara Foundling Home, promoted by Miss Evylya Agnew, assisted by adult and juvenile artists, was held in the…

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Waitara Home Benefit Concert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 16 January 1908 · page 37

A grand charity concert, organised by Miss Evylyn Agnew in aid of the Waitara Foundling Home, was held in the Federation Hall, Church-hill, on Wednesday evening, 8th inst…

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State Military Band. Annual Meeting

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 4

The annual meeting of the New South Wales State Military Band was held at the New Masonic Hall on Monday. There was a large gathering the proceedings taking the form of a supper and concert, Colonel…

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A Ball Gown Made of 30,000 Stamps

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 17 January 1908 · page 4

At a ball in Bermuda, a wonderful dress was worn, and in the making of it over 30,000 stamps were used. Years were spent in collecting the stamps, and three weeks in the making of the…

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West's Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 12

West's pictures continue their popularity at the Glaciacium, where large attendances nightly witness an exhibition full of charm, and diversified as it is entertaining. This week's programme contained a great many…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 17

Large attendances continue to demonstrate sustained interest in "The Searlet Pimpernel," the romantic play that bears the name of a humble little wayside flower. The adventures of Sir Percy in his various…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 17

At the Tivoli Theatre this afternoon and evening Mr. Harry Rickards's company will be headed by Mr. Bdwin Boyde, whose humorous accentricities have caught on. The Four Eugenes,…

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Criterion Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 17

The last six nights of "When Knights Were Bold" are notified by Mr. Edwin Geach at the Criterion, where the final matince of this laughable piece, in which Mr. Frank Thornton figures so humorously as a…

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Palace Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 17

This afternoon the eighth matinee of "Cinderella" [?]ill be given by Messrs. Anderson and [?]heridan at the Palace Theatre, where the new pantomime, with its ballets, Porcelain march, and humour, in which Mr…

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Glaciarium—west's Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 18 January 1908 · page 17

Mr. T. J. West will give a complete change of the beautiful of humourous pictures at the Glaciarium this afternoon and evening, including "Love will find a Way." "Dresmland; or, Tweenie, the Doll that Grew…

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