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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1915

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French Pictures of the War: Taken for French Newspapers Some Thrilling Episodes War in Water and in Trenches. Heroic Adventures

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 February 1915 · page 13

A body of French soldiers were sent at night to get information about a village occupied by the Germans in Flanders. The little troop advanced through the fields…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Friday 5 February 1915 · page 4

The Time Ball, at the Sydney Observatory la dropped every day at 1 p.m., Sydney standard time, corresponding to Greenwich Mean Time, 8 hours 0 min. 0 sec. Should any error occur…

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Band Music

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 6

The Cumberland Band will render the following programme on Sunday afternoon (under the conductorship of Bandmaster L. Taylor) in Parramatta Park:—…

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Band Music

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 2

The Granville Municipal Band will play the following programme on the reserve, adjoining Bergan's Picture Theatre, tomorrow, under the conductorship of…

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The Dance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 8

In "The Dance" the Misses T. and M. W. Kinney give a most comprehensive account of the terpsichorean [?]t from its earliest manifestations down to the latest craze, which has…

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Fairfield Pictures

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 5

The proprietor of the Fairfield Pictures, Mr. A. Herman, is making an effort to have a dress circle gallery added to his present seating capacity, and it is…

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Spencer's Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 13

A society comedy by the Vitagraph Company. "Uncle Bill" will head the new programme at Spencer's Lyceum on Monday, It portrays an ingeniously constructed plot of mixed identities, and…

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Wests Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 13

Two exhibtions will be given to-day, starting with the matince, both at West's Glaciariurn and the Olym pia, when "On Suspicion," showing the evils of "the third degree," will be screened for the last time…

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West Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 9

Two exhibitions will be given to-day at West's Claelarium and the Olympia, when the big photo-play entitled "On Suspicion," which depicts the evils of "the third degree," will be screened for the last time…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 8

The Time Ball at the Sydney Observatory is dropped every day at 1 p.m., Sydney standard time, corresponding to Greenwich Mean Time. 8 hours 0 min. 0 sec. Should any error occur…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 9

The Follies are in their last nights at the Tivoli Theatre, since the show is to be transferred to Melbourne next week. All the old favorites are to appear for the remaining three nights in new songs and dances…

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Criterion Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 9
Also in The Sydney Morning Herald

At the Criterion to-night, "Broadway Jones" will enter upon its ninth and final week, thus registering the same run as "Seven Keys to Baldpate." Mr. Fred Niblo and Miss Josephine Cohan have met with a…

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Palace Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 13
Also in The Daily Telegraph

There will be two performances to-day. at 215 and at 8 p.m. of "Seven Little Australians, at the Palace Theatre, where playgoers will at last have an opportunity of seeing Ethel Turner's tender and amusing story in…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 13
Also in The Daily Telegraph

The last six nights of "The Scarlet Pimpernel" are notified at the Theatre Boyal, where this picturesque love-story of the adventurous Period of the French Revolution is drawing large audiences. On…

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Adelphi Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 13

Farewell matinces of "The Babes in the Wood" will be given at the Adelphi Theatre at 2 p.m. to-day and on Wednesday next, as the final performance of the pantomime is announced for next Friday evening. The…

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Spencer's Pictures, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 17

The report of the above company for the year ended August 31 shows a net profit of £26,055. A circular had previously explained that the accounts could not be submitted…

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Officers of the Band

Nepean Times · Saturday 6 February 1915 · page 3

President, Mr. Colin Smith; vice-presidents, Messrs. C. H. Fulton and A Phillips; bandmaster, Mr. Geo White; sergeant, Mr. Z. Smalley; corporal…

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