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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1916

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Highland Society's Concert

Evening News · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 8

The Governor-General and La[?]y Hales [?] attended by [?] -General Finn and Captain [?] at the HIgh[?] Society's [?] at the Sydney. Town Hall…

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Amusements. Highland Society's Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1916 · page 3

The Town Hall was crowded on Saturday evening on the occasion of the annual concert of the Highland Society of New South Wales. The Governor-General and Lady Helen Munro Ferguson were present, their…

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Surprise for Teutons Big Russian Movement More Submarine Crimes Surprised Teutons in Eastern Theatre Effect of Sudden Thaw. Vast Operations Pending. London, Monday Night

Evening News · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 1

The "Daily Telegraph's" Petrograd correspondent says that the curtain is now lifting on vast operations between the Pripet and the Roumanian frontier…

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The Killara Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1916 · page 11

In connection with the concert organised by Mrs. Alex Turnbull, of Turramurra, assisted by Mr. S. R. Dobbie, and given at the Killara Hall on November 27, it is stated that the total net proceeds amounted…

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Pictures

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 15

E. Phillips Oppenheim, than whom there is no better living writer of solid and sensational fiction, was the man commissioned by the Transatlantic Company to write the scenario…

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Palace Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 7

It was a happy thought of Manager Geo. Marlow to stage "The Rosary" at the Palace during the holiday season, and this give the theatre-loving people of Sydney…

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National Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 7

"Novelties and still more novelties" is the motto at the National. Newcomers follow newcomers with such rapidity that patrons of the National are always…

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Theatre Royal

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 7

Sydney playgoers have taken Allen Doone to their hearts, and in his latest play. "O'Leary, V.C." in addition to his artistic personality, he is assisted by the…

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Criterion Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 4

The fact that the crowds who nightly flock to the Criterion to see "Twin Beds" do not burst out the walls of that temple of fun, speaks volumes for their solidity…

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Latest War Pictures from Europe

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 26

A French soldier making his choice from a varied collection of German helmets after an engagement. French ladies tending British soldiers' graves. The Italian Advance -- Austrian prisoners and captured guns in the mountains. General Bailloud, a French officer, landing at Salonika in a fisherman's boat…

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Pictures from Northern France, Serbia, and Poland

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 30

French cyclists in the field. Note the white cloth they wear on their backs to allow them to be recognised at a distance. Serbian troops marching through Uskub. Austrian prisoners in Poland…

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The Enemy in Serbia's Capital -- Pictures of Belgrade

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 25

Austrians trekking through Serbia. Stores for the German Army being unloaded at Belgrade. The railway bridge across the River Save, showing how effectively the Serbians hampered the German advance…

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Pictures from France -- King George with the Army

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 21

King George in France -- His Majesty speaking to French and Belgian officers. It is not always "bully" for Tommy's dinner. -- The picture shows roast beef being taken from a held kitchen in France…

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The Western Theatre. Aerial Attack on Ostend

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 13

A German report states that Anglo-French aviators attacked Ostend, killing a Belgian civilian, and wounding 19. The Convent of the Sacred Heart was shattered…

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Bat and Ball. Something About Spofforth, the Demon Bowler

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 7

Frederick Robert Spofforth, the great rival, and by many considered the superior, of Charlie Turner, was born at Balmain, in 1855. His father came from a…

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Gossip of the Theatres and Pictures Personal :: Vaudeville Movements :: New Acts

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 15

Coy de Trickey, the Cinnamon Girl, and Nolan and Nolan, comedy jugglers are to begin return seasons at the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday afternoon…

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Unique War Pictures: on Mountain and Plain. in the Snow-capped Tyrolean Alps

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 11

This remarkable photograph was taken on the summit of one of the highest peaks in the Austro-Italian fighting zone. An Italian soldier will be noticed on look-out duty. He has erected a pile of stones to break the clear sweep of the cold wind. A BRITISH CAMP BOMBED FROM THE CLOUDS. Another remarkable war photograph. It was taken from a German aeroplane, and shows bembs exploding after being dropped from a Hun machine on…

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Endurance Ball Punching Tom Hogan's 40min. 5sec. is Best Known Performance to Date

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 13

Tom Hogan's claim to championship honors as an endurance ball-puncher has caused no end of argument among the good people of Mount Mulligan, North Queensland. Tom's…

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Pictures From the Cameroon, Egypt, France, and Germany. From Gallipoli to Egyptian Sugar-cane Fields

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 5 January 1916 · page 18

WRITING of the campaign in the Cameroon an officer contributing to the "United Empire" says, after describing the surrender of Garua:—"When we got into Garua we found it even stronger than we had supposed,…

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