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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1917

2,531 stories in Sydney's papers · page 8 of 127

Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 24 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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Her Majesty's Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

"The Cinema Star", musical revue comedy, is still glittering gally and gladly at the big Pitt-street house, and the Royal Comic Opera Company, headed by…

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Sundry Shows. National Theatre

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 2

Mr. Ben Fuller is to the fore again this week with a fine bunch of new imported artists and a programme which, even apart from the really…

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Latest Pictures from the Western Front

Australian Town and Country Journal · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 22

French soldiers decorated by Prince Arthur of Connaught. German machine guns captured…

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Symphonies or Sermons Manly Band Controversy Ragtime in Pulpit P­etition Turned Down

The Sun · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 6

Last night the Manly municipal councillors passed the following resolution:-- "That this council sympathises with the views of the petitioners in safeguarding the…

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Roumanian Theatre. Bulgarians Near Tulcea. Germans Claim Successes. [?] Admiralty—[?] LONDON [?]

Evening News · Wednesday 24 January 1917 · page 1

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Thursday 25 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. 0sec. Should any error occur…

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The Theatre

The Catholic Press · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 31

"The Cinema Star" shines as brightly and steadily as ever at Her Majesty's Theatre, and continues to attract large and enthusiastic audiences. This attractive…

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Behind the Firing Line in Flanders: Pen Pictures by Margaret Bell. "It is a Miracle That the Convent is Not a Heap of Ruins."

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 25 January 1917 · page 3

When afternoon slips into evening, and all the Flemish fields are veiled in grey, when the long lino of barges on the canal, seems to crouch low, and the flickering…

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Band Music for Soldiers

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 7

The Police Band, under the conductorship of Captain Bentley, played an enjoyable programme of music at No. 4 Garrison Hospital, Randwick, last evening. In addition to the…

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"Battle of Kangaroos" Germans Dance Round Tank

The Sun · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

The French correspondents on the British front speak with undisguised admiration of the Intoxicating dash and fury of the attack of British troops…

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Concert at Cronulla

The Propeller · Friday 26 January 1917 · page 2

A concert in aid of the Cronulla Red Cross Home took place in the Cronulla School of Arts on Monday last, there being a large…

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Band Music

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 6

The Parramatta Citizens' Band will play the following programme of music in the Parramatta Park on Sunday afternoon next, commencing at 3.15:—March…

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West's Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 6

The afternoon's show to-day at West's [?] will start at 2.30 with a programme which includes "A Sister of Six," in which Bessie love appear[?] To-night a new series of "The Iron [?] will be…

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The Band's Toot

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 2

"Constant Header" writes to "The Argus":—"I would deem it an esteemed favour if you would print in the next issue of your paper the following letter…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 27 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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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 6

The "Passing Show," headed by Sydney James and his lively associate, "Billy," continues to be one of the great attractions in the Tivoli programme. Lady Sen Mei, the Chinese singer, is also established is…

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Theatre Royal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 27 January 1917 · page 6

The first and only production Mr. S. W. Griffith he made since "The Birth of a Nation" is announced for the Theatre Royal on February 10. This is "[?] tolerance," which is acclaimed by the critics as the…

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