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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1913

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Moving Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 5

The Kinemacolor pictures are the great attraction at the Lyceum-hall, where the Spencer management is showing scenes of the Delhi Durbar, taken by the new and beautiful color photography. There are matinee[?]…

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The Lyceum. Spencer's Pictures

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

At the Lyceum, the new Kinemacolor pictures are being featured to crowded audiences. Conspicious among these colored films are those of Italian lake…

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Theatre Royal. "Faust."

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

Sir Gilbert Parker's dramatic version of "Faust," now being staged at the Royal, is delighting the throngs who nightly witness it. Combining, as it does, the beautiful,…

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Bakinoga's Bloodthirsty Band. Athens, Dec. 30

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 9

It is officially stated that Zagorl has been denuded of its male population since the beginning of the war, and that the followers of Bakinogn, the Albanian raider, when they…

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Olympia and Glaciarium. West's Pictures

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

At both the Olympia and the Glaciarium, extended and varied subjects are being pictured daily and nightly to crowded houses. The stirring [?]litary drama. "For Their…

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Pictures at the Crystal Palace

Evening News · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 5

The management of the Crystal Palace, George-street, announce that there will be no interference with the running of the picture show. Fortunately the fire which broke out in…

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Death in a Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Tuesday. -- Mr. F. Clarke, a retired School teacher, died suddenly during an entertainment at the Lyric Theatre, Bendigo, last night. Deceased has a son living in Sydney…

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Around the Shows. Her Majesty's Theatre

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 45

At Her Majesty's Theatre the popular musical comedy "Florodora" continues to draw crowded houses, and bids fair to do for some time to come…

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City Fire. Crystal Palace Theatre. Heavy Damage

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 9

Shortly after 11 o'clock last night a fire broke out in the film exchange in the Crystal Palace Theatre, George-street, and great damage was done to the store portion of the…

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How the Theatre Was Cleared. an Orderly Crowd. Extent of the Damage

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 9

Mr. J. D. Williams, the managing director of the Crystal Palace, when seen by a "Daily Telegraph" representative, said that the cause of the fire was a mystery. He explained that it…

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Theatre on Fire. Crystal Palace Severely Damaged. Outbreak in Film Room. Audience Leaves Quietly

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 9

A sudden outbreak of fire severely damaged the Crystal Palace Theatre last night, commencing just before the crowded spectators began to leave the hall. The orderly manner in…

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Hogmanay Concert. a Scottish Programme

Evening News · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 8

A programme representative of the national music of Scotland was offered at the Sydney Town [?]alt on New Year's Eve (Rogmany), under the auspices of the Highland Society of…

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Hogmanay Evening. Highland Festival Concert

The Sun · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 2

Last evening was Hogmanay night in the Town Hall. The Highland Society, cruelly evicted from the civic concert chamber on its great festival night, determined not to be…

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Highland Festivities. Concert at Town Hall

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 11

The Highland Society of New South Wales opened its New Year festivities by holding a festival of Scottish song, piping, and dancing in the Town-hall last night before a large…

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Concert at the Town Hall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 11

Mr. Nicholas J. Gehde has arranged a particularly attractive programme of songs, instrumental numbers, recitations, and calisthenies for this evening's popular entertainment at the Town Hall. The group of…

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Scots' Concert, Prince Alfred Park

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 11

The Highland Society of New South Wales will prescrit to-night an entirely new programme of old Scotch ballads, part songs, and instrumental pieces at the Exhibition Building, Prince Alfred Park. Mr. Walter…

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"Hogmanay Concert."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 11

"Hogmanay," which is the Scottish equivalent for New Year's Eve, and in prononunced with the middle syllabic short and the first as if spelt "hug," was celebrated, at the Town…

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Bat and Ball New South Wales Defeated by Victoria. Death of an Old Cricket Identity. Middle Harbor Affects a Surprise. [?] Bull the Only Century Getter in First Grade. Redfern's Stock Rising. Morte Sydney and Redfern Win Outright. Mailey's Fine Bowling

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 1 January 1913 · page 7

The severe defeat of our men by South Australia is a bitter pill for followers on the game in New South Wales, who expected that, under equal conditions, our…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 2 January 1913 · page 4

The Time Bull at the Sydney Observatory is dropped every day at 1 p.m. Sydney standard time, corresponding to Greenwich Mean Time, 3hrs. Om. us. Should any error occur in the…

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The Theatre. GOSSIP

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1913 · page 23

How the majority of the actors and actresses who appear in "The Monk and the Woman" escaped from the classic stage of Tin Pot Creek will forever remain a…

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