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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1913

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Band Association

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

The championship baud contest in connection with the Hand Association of New South Wales will, be hem at the Sydney Sports Ground on the evenings of January 23, 24, 25, and 27. The…

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Spencer's Pictures

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

Most beautiful is the kinemacolor picture at the Lyceum this week of English spring flowers, white one depleting a review of British and Indian troops by…

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West's Pictures

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

"The Moneylender" will be the principal feature to-morrow at the Glaciarium and Olympia, Oxford-street. A number of new films will be shown during the week…

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Polar Pictures

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

Shortly, there will be shown in Sydney the most novel series of moving pictures ever screened in Australia, showing what life is in the Arctic regions. Life among…

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State Military Band

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 11

The ninth annual meeting of the State Military Band will be held at the Masonic Hall on Tuesday evening. Captain W. G. Bentley will conduct the band in a…

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Colonial Theatre

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2
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The Colonial Theatre this week will screen a powerful drama of poaching life in English oaken glades, in which the horrible crimes of snaring a…

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Lyric Theatre

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2
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"In a Den of Lions" will be the principal dramatic subject at the Lyric Theatre to morrow. The programme includes "After the Honeymoon," "Felix at the Ball," "A Ride for…

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Empress Theatre

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2
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The "Empress Theatre" always gives a good show, and this week its piece-de-resistence—its star picture—will be one entitled "The Debt." This is a…

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Criterion Theatre

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

"Milestones" is now in its sixth week at the "Criterion," and thirty-six times have Julius Knight and the fair Irene Browne and the other…

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Theatre Royal

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

On Saturday, as on previous occasions, the actors impersonating the supernatural characters in "Faust" at the Royal disappeared in clouds of…

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Adelphi Theatre

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

Remarkable business continues to be done at the Adelphi Theatre with "The Monk and the Woman," for, notwithstanding the hot weather of last week, the…

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The Sunday Theatre

Sunday Times · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 22

Is the Sunday opening of playhouses practicable or desirable ? is a question that is still being discussed in a London journal. Mr. H. B. Irving, soon after his return to London from…

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Give Is a Show. Tivoli Theatre

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 2

The Tlvoli will certainly have to be enlarged, because any person coming just before the overture is over must remain seatless, and this was the case on…

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No Inaugural Ball Washington Society Set Back. Washington

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 1

Washington society is aghast over President Wilson's suggestion to abolish the inaugural ball at the White House because of its great expense…

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Spooks Frighten Johnson. Sleeping in Condemned Cell Ghosts Dance and Knock. CHICAGO

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 4

Jack Johnson believes that he is being haunted in his cell at the county gaol. Yesterday he limped into the office of the Federal Department of Justice and…

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Wanted: a Composer. Real Concertina Music

The Sun · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 15

Although the concertina is probably the commonest musical instrument there is, nobody has yet bothered to prepare music for it. No doubt the explanation of this is…

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Old Sydney. Aa Old Sydney Corner—Where Harringtons Were—An Original Wentworth Deal—Where Soole Sold Soles—An imported Lawyer—A Valuable Asset—Mr. Bewler Redgate Complains—Wedding of Miss Cissy Durant—Miss Rose Stella in "Humpty-Dumpry"—Fanny Simonsen's Opera Bouffe—Captain Piper, of Alloway Bank—Ada Ward at the Royal—Pastor Gardiner—Joseph Paxton—Wiiliam Creswick Appears at the Victoria Theatre—Joseph Trickett, of the Mint—Imber, a Turner of Timber

Truth · Sunday 19 January 1913 · page 12

The recent destruction at Harrington's, Limited, recalls the genesis of business on that spot. In the second decade of last century—in fact, to be precise, one year…

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