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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1917

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Lyceum Pictures

Evening News · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 6

"The Beggar of Cawnpore," a six-street Triangle drama, now screened at the Lyceum, shows Henry B. Warner in the part of Do[?]tor Lowndes, of the British Army Medical…

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Tivoli Theatre

Evening News · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 2

There were large audiences at the Tivoli Theatre on Saturday afternoon and night, and the programme [?] was [?] of interest. As usual, [?] James [?]aded the…

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Time-ball and Gun

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 1 January 1917 · page 7

The Government Astronomer, Professor W. E. Cooke, stated last night that the time ball at the Observatory will drop at one o'clock new time, instead of one o'clock…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · 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, 15 hoars 0 min. 0 sec. Should any error occur…

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Scottish Concert

Evening News · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 6

At the New Year [?] in the Sydney [?]. The pipe [?] of the [?] society had the [?]…

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New Year Night Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 8

There was a large attendance at the Highland Society's New Year Night concert at the Town Hall, when the national music, now grave, now gay, but always imbued with those…

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Scottish Song Festival Enjoyable Concert

The Sun · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 2

At the annual festival of Scottish song at the Town Hall last night, the body of the vast hall was well filled, and the majority of seats in the galleries were occupied. But…

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Highland Concert

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 2 January 1917 · page 6

Tho annual New Year's night concert of the Highland Society attracted the customary full house. The programme, while of the usual order, of Scotch songs principally, was devised…

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Criterion Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

There will be a matinee of the pretty emotional "Crook and Cop" drama, "The House of Glass", at the Criterion this afternoon. Miss Florence Rockwell, the…

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National Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

Mr. Ben J. Fuller has a special Holiday programme at the National this first week of the New Year, which began, more by token, on the last week of the Old. The…

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British War Pictures. Tokio, Jan. 1

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 11

Cinematograph films of the war, showing the extent of the British effort in army, navy, and munition-making organisation, are being exhibited in Japan. They are making…

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Sundry Shows. Her Majesty's Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 2

The brilliant, musical, and amusing comic opera-musical comedy-revue, "The Cinema Star", with Florence Young and the Royal Comic Opera Company to…

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Mr. Hugh Ward Enters Base Ball Business in America

Referee · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 14

The following from New York in the shape of a newspaper cutting sent to Mr. W. F. Corbett though the name of the paper is not mentioned), will interest baseballers in Australia,…

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Cricket and the Theatre Men Who Have Played Parts on Both Stages

Referee · Wednesday 3 January 1917 · page 12

In former days attractions in Melbourne cricket were matches in which members of the theatrical profession frequently took part. Many of the actors who came out from the…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 4 January 1917 · 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, 16 hours 0 min. 0 sec. Should any error occur…

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The Theatre

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 19

Playgoers were afforded an opportunity of studying the very latest thing in American melodrama on Saturday night, when the "House of Glass," from the pen of Max…

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5t. Nicholas', Tamworth. School Concert

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 5

The breaking-up of St. Nicholas' Primary School was celebrated by a singularly successful concert, at which His Lordship the Bishop of Armidale, Dr. O'Connor, was…

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North Queensland. Convent High School Concert

The Catholic Press · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 41

With the advent of Christmas the schools have been holding their usual yearly entertainments. The most popular school concert is undoubtedly that of tho pupils…

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Wardell. St. Joseph's Convent School Concert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 39

The pupils of St. Joseph's school, Warden, held their annual concert in the Victoria Hall on Tuesday week. A very fair crowd were present considering the many…

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Candelo. St. Joseph's Convent Concert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 4 January 1917 · page 40

An excellent entertainment was provided by the pupils of St. Joseph's Gonvent, Candelo, on Tuesday week in the schoolhall, when the following programme was…

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