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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1917

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Band Music

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 7
Also in The Sun

Parramatta Citizens', under Mr. A. E. Taylor. Parramatta Park. 3.15: March, The Challenge (Calert); selection Semiramide (Rossini); overture, Light Cavalry Suppe); cornet solo. The Lost Chord (Sullivan), (soloist…

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Shurety -- Dance

The Sun · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 16

A wedding took place at St. Saviour's Anglican Cathedral, Goulburn, on December 26, when Mr. Selby C. H. Shurety, youngest son of the late Mr. J. F. Shurety, of South…

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Haymarket Theatre

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 28

The leading roles in the film Behind the Lines are taken by Edith Johnson and Harry Carey, who for once discards the chaps and the spurs to play the role of army surgeon. Sensation…

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Big Pictures at Hoyts

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 28

To be captured by a rough, drunken man and to be held captive by him during such times as he cared for you and brought you back to health and happiness, and then to be sent back…

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Theatres on with the Dance Billy's Defence of Madeline

Sunday Times · Sunday 7 January 1917 · page 17

Dainty Madeline Rossiter has no more vehement a champion on and off the stage than little Billy D.G.I.F., late of the R.L.H. It's her wonderful dancing that takes those roving eyes…

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Lyceum Pictures

Evening News · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 6

Miss Bible Rurke is seen at the Lycenam Theatre in the third [?] Gloria's Roma[?] in which there are excellent opportunities for the favorite to grip the attention and sumpathy…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 8 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 hours 0 min. 0 sec. Should any error occur…

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MELODRAMA v. PICTURES

The Globe and Sunday Times War Pictorial · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 15

The International Circuit, which was recently formed in America with the idea of competing against the movies by a well-organised circuit of thrillers of the old kind, or popular prices,…

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Theatre Employees. Strike Ultimatum. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 8 January 1917 · page 6

At a special meeting of the Melbourn[?] Branch of the Theatrical Employees' Associ[?] tion to-day, it was decided to withdraw th[?] strike ultimatum, pending the decision of…

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West's Pictures

Evening News · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 8

The big Oliver [?] entitled "Her [?] the [?] Vivian [?] the star [?] at West's Olympia until [?] evening. This [?] was [?] for the…

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Fire in Theatre Panic Avoided Hobart

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 2

Last night, shortly before 10 o'clock, a crowded audience in the Palace Theatre was alarmed by an outbreak of fire in the operating-room, a film having become ignited. The…

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Concert of Allies The Victory Conference Iron Determination London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 9 January 1917 · page 1

Reuter's Rome correspondent reports that Signor Boselli, the Prime Minister of Italy, gave a luncheon to the delegates to the Conference of Allied Prime Ministers…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 10 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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King's Theatre

Referee · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 14

Before a crowded house the Kate Howard dramatic Company presented An Accidental Honeymoon at the King's Theatre on Saturday. The comedy was a riot of fun from start to…

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Criterion Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

"The House of Glass" has proved a real money-spinner, and once again proves that the manager is wise who gives the public what it wants. without regard to…

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Moving Pictures Pausing

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 45

A moving picture projector, with special driving mechanism and special, shutter, makes it practicable to stop the film at any pointy and project any single view on the screen as a…

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Her Majesty's Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

"The Cinema Star" is proving one of the greatest attractions the Royal Comic Opera Co. ever presented. This "musical revue comedy" is full of life, music,…

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Sundry Shows. National Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 2

Another great programme is on this week at the National Theatre. The headliners are The Alerts, a strapping man and a pretty girl in thigh boots who do a lot…

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Fire in Picture Theatre. Hobart

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 10 January 1917 · page 12

A fire occurred at the Palace Picture Theatre, Hobart, last night. There were from 400 to 500 people in the theatre when a film caught alight. The film, together with…

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