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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1918

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New Ideas in Science and Invention. Adjusts the Hat Band

The World's News · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 11

THE newest hats for masculinity are being supplied with an adjusting device which will be welcomed by the hat dealer, for the reason that it will relieve him of the…

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Baseball. National League Lilts. Red Sox Sensational Rally—subordinates Saints. Wave's Breakers Purl Petes. Dangerous Ball Plates. To-day's Operations. First Grade

Sydney Sportsman · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 2

Waverley v. St George—Leichhardt Park; umpire, W.C. J. Kelly. Petersham v. Leichhadt—Marrickville Oval; umpire, P.H. Stacey…

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G.f.s. Concert

The St George Call · Saturday 12 January 1918 · page 4

The G.F.S. will give their concert next Tuesday evening at Brett's Hall, Kogarah. Proceeds are in aid of Church funds, and the tickets are selling like…

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An All-australian Orchestra

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1918 · page 21

With all the volume of a forty-piece orchestra, wholly in Australia by Australians and possessed of a melodious sound that brings back recollection of the favorite…

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Goldwyn Pictures

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1918 · page 21

One of the largest and most important motion picture enterprises in America, the Goldwyn Pictures Corporation, is extending operations to Australia. Mr. Harold Bolster…

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Blaming the Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1918 · page 18

A wave of juvenile crime appears to have spread over the Newcastle district. Organised gangs of youngsters thieve, rob and plunder, and when parents find them with the…

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Princess Theatre

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1918 · page 4

One of the best revues yet seen at the Princess is Mr. Arthur Morley's latest production --" Dockam-street, Woolloomooloo." A few of the audience prophesy a success for it…

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Hippodrome Theatre

Sunday Times · Sunday 13 January 1918 · page 15

There is no abatement in the regularly recorded capacity business condition at the Hippodrome Theatre, where William Anderson's pantomime, Jack and the Beanstalk, has settled…

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Filmland Flickers Goldwyn Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 13 January 1918 · page 19

A contract was completed in Melbourne during the week between Mr. Harold Bolster, representing Goldwyn Pictures, New York and J. C. Williamson, Ltd., securing…

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Interstat[?] Band Contest

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 9

This year's interstate band contest, promoted by the Band Association of New South Walcs, will take place at the Sports Ground on January 23, 24, 25, and 26. Nine banda are competing in O grade, twelve…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Monday 14 January 1918 · 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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National' Theatre

Evening News · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 6

A [?] attraction at the National Theatre on Saturday night was the turn of the Five Lew[?] a group of Chin[?] girls, whose agee were from [?] to [?] years, who sang and danced in a manner that…

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New Saturday Popular Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 14 January 1918 · page 9

A series of four Saturday Popular Concerts upon an unusually claborate scale, full detail of which are published in our "Music and Drama column, has been organised by the Royal Philiharmonic…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Tuesday 15 January 1918 · 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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Amusements. New "Orchestra Player."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 12

At the Globe Picture Theatre, George-street, yesterday morning, Mr. M. Aarons was at the keyboard two hours, while the Australian Orchestra Player was supplying the incidental music. Locally built…

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Time Ball

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · 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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Broadway Theatre

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 8

The attraction new being acreened at the Broad was Theatre, George-street West, in the William Fox kidd[?] pantomime, "Jack and the Bean[?]talk," This fairly pantomime is one of the finest of the Fox…

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Hospital Ship Torpedoed — Other War Pictures

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 15

The photograph was taken just at the moment the vessel commenced to dive. The black specks on the water are members of the crew who jumped overboard. Last week as similar fate was meted out to a British hospital ship in the Bristol Channel, a [?] torpedoing her at midnight, despite the fact that she was displaying all the lights and markets required by the Hague Convention. There were 259…

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Stage and Screen. Various Sydney Shows. Band Contests. Big Events at Sports Ground

Evening News · Wednesday 16 January 1918 · page 8

Gratifying entries have been received for this year's bre[?] hand competitions, to be held at the Sydney Sports Ground, Moore Park, on the evenings of January [?] and M. The present is the…

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