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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1913

6,577 stories in Sydney's papers · page 18 of 250

Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 4

The Time Ball at the Sydney Observatory is dropped every day at 1 p.m. Sydney standard time. corresponding to Greenwich Mean Time, 3hrs. 0m. 0s. Should any error occur in the…

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Theatre Royal. "Faust."

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 2

The last nights of this magnificent spectacular melodrama, with its charming incidental music, marvellous scenic and mechanical effects, and artistic, acting, are…

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Mighty Engines. Panama Canal Pictures

The Sun · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 4

Were the Pyramids built in this way? Some such pertinent question is likely to form itself in the mind of anyone looking at the wonderful series of views of the construction…

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The Alhambra. Pictures and Vaudeville

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 2

The double programme of vaudeville and pictures presented at caen performance at the Alhambra is winning that success it fully deserves. The pictures…

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Around the Shows. Palace Theatre

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 45

At the Palace Theatre on January 25 Mr. Allen Doone, who is now nearing the end of his season, revived the pastoral drama, "In Old Donegal." which was so successfully…

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The German Emperor As a Sportsman. Pictures Taken During a Recent Hunting Expedition

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 12

On Saturday last a reception in honour of the Kaiser's birthday (the 54th anniversary of which fell on Monday) was held at the German Consulate Sydney where Herr Kiliana, the Consul-General, received a great number of prominent citizens, representing all classes of the community…

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Bat and Ball New South Wales v. Victoria. Collapse of the Victorians. Armstrong and Matthews to the Rescue. First Day

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 29 January 1913 · page 7

The return game between the Mother State and Victoria was commenced on the Sydney Cricket Ground last Friday under most favorable circumstances as regards…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 4

The Time Ball at the Sydney Observatory is dropped every day at 1 p.m. Sydney standard time, corresponding to Greenwich Mean Time, 3hrs. 0m. 0s. Should any error occur in the…

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Theatre Royal

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 29

Other engagements of the firm have necessitated the announcement that the remarkably successful drama, "Faust," is drawing to a close. The piece is now in its sixth…

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Panama Canal Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 6

A private view was given yesterday at the Crystal Palace of a film of somewhat more than ordinary interest. It covers 4000ft of him, and illustrates vividly the whole of the gigantic engineering f[?]t of linking…

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The Theatre

The Catholic Press · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 30

At Her Majesty's Theatre on Saturday night, the opening of the second week of "The Sunshine Girl" was witnessed by a house that was packed in every part. The…

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Pictures Extraordinary. Panama Canal Operations

Evening News · Thursday 30 January 1913 · page 5

What will [?] be admitted to be one of the most va[?]ble [?]graph [?] produced form a[?] educative point of view is [?] of the Panama Canal in an…

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Victorian A.n.a. Band Contest

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 7

In the solo competitions in connection with the A.N.A. Band Contest, the Sydney Metropolitan Band wore on Tuesday credited with we successes, N. Murray being placed first in…

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A.n.a. Band Contest. Record Entry

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 12

MELBOURNE, Thursday.--The brass band contests in connection with the A.N.A. Exhibition were commenced to -day. The number of entrants for the contests constitute what is…

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Balcony Theatre Suppers. at the Australia

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 7

"The Sunshine Girl" Theatre Supper at the Hotel Australia was so munch appreciated last Saturday evening that M. Rouy has again prepared a special…

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A National Theatre. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 11

Sir,—I am surprised that there has been no answer to a letter signed "J.F.G." in your issue of Tuesday, 28th inst., on the above subject. The writer has evidently not been…

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Stage Song and Show Success of "Sunshine Girl." Last Nights of "Faust." Criterion Comedy Season. Current Vaudeville and Pictures

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 11

The big bunch of merry doings and melooious happening in "The Sunshine Girl" attracted congested audiences to the performances of the week at Her Majesty's. "My…

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Foreign Princess's Freak. How She Went to a Ball. Chariot Drawn by Lion and Leopard. London, Thursday, 8.45 p.m

The Sun · Friday 31 January 1913 · page 8

Features that were as dangerous as they were novel were introduced at a ball which was given by a fashionable skating club in Rome last night, and which was largely…

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West's Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 11

The West Pictures management announces, that in additio[?]nto the dramatic subject, ''The Girl Without a Country," there will be screened on Monday pictures of the Panama Canal works, showing the use of ingenious…

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Spencer's Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 1 February 1913 · page 11

The Spencer management announces four new kinema-color pictures for the Lyceum Theatre commencing this afternoon. The subjects comprise:--"Picturesque Devonshire," "Unveiling the Queen Victoria Monument,"…

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