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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1923

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Film Alight Picture Theatre Burned Walla Walla Sensation Culcairn

The Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 7

last night, during the progress of a picture show at Walla Walla, a serious fire occurred. The lessee, Mr. K. Bounader, was screening "The Sheik"…

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News of the [?]our in Topical Pictures The World Through a Camera Lens

The Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 10

BIGGEST LUMP OF COAL EVER MINED. -- This lump of coal, weighing 22,0001b., was obtained from the King mine, Utah, and has been placed on permanent exhibition in the basement of the State Capitol. It cost £500 to transport it. THE OLD SWIMMIN' 'OLE. -- This is not a Swiss lake…

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Broadcasting Concerts Melbourne

The Sun · Tuesday 16 January 1923 · page 10

The Melbourne branch of Amalgamated Wireless, Ltd., reports that broadcasting concerts in Victoria are now listened to regularly by about…

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The Rowan Pictures

The Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 6

AFTER reading in another column on this page what the best-known artists of Sydney have to say about the Commonwealth proposal to purchase for £10,000 the Rowan collection of flower-paintings, no citizen who has any respect for expert opinion can doubt that such a…

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Lost Ball Blackfellow Earns 1/-

Evening News · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 2

A correspondent writes:— With reference to the "lost ball" incident in the New South Wales-South australia cricket match it is worth…

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News of the [?]our in Topical Pictures. The World Through a Camera Lens

The Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 10

THE THINKER. -- Miss Alyse Cunningham, of London, is making an effort to train this gorilla. It now eats grapes after three months of civilisation. BURNT OUT. -- A party of campers on the Murrumbidgee…

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Mrs. Rowan's Pictures To Buy, or Not to Buy? "Disastrous to Art" Opinions of Leading Artists

The Sun · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 6

To buy or not to buy the Rowan Collection is the question which is still agitating official minds in Melbourne. The collection contains, we are told,…

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Billiards Undrum's Big Breaks in Suburbs Is Side Communicated to the Object Ball?: Came in England

Referee · Wednesday 17 January 1923 · page 13

The one great thing In bil-liards is true cueing. No person ever becomes a good player unless he or she can oue with a…

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The Theatre

The Catholic Press · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 20

So popular has the delightful play, "Eyes of Youth," proved, that the management have altered their original intentions, and decided to extend the season until Friday,…

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The Week's Pictures

Evening News · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 13

We are to see House P[?] the South Australian [?] at the Ly[?] and Lyle on Saturday. He is playing in "The Man [?] Lo[?] River [?]…

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Children's Theatre New York Experiment

Evening News · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 15

The Children's Theatre, built by the [?] Foundation for Children in the new building for the New YOrk So[?] for the Prevention of Cruelty to…

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For Women—[?] About Recent [?]appenings. White Dance

Evening News · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 15

A "white dance," the final farewell function to Miss Helene Esserman. who leave for Europe on January 25. will be hold at the harris Had. Bondi…

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Rowan Pictures Lister Lister's Opinion Supports "The Sun"

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 6

Mr. W. Lister Lister (president of the Royal Art Society) was out on a sketching expedition when "The Sun" article yesterday was written. When…

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Bong Gay Golf Club Ball Brilliant Decorations Bowral

Evening News · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 6

A brilliant hall given by the Bowral [?] Club at the picture palace last evening [?] the Bong Bong picnic [?] festivities, Sydney society was…

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News of the Hour in Capital Pictures The World Through a Camera Lens

The Sun · Thursday 18 January 1923 · page 10

LOME TRAGEDY SHIP.--The German ship Hinschenlefde, from which the captain's daughter and the second mate (inset) jumped. The girl was drowned and the mate rescued. BIG BROTHER COMES HOME.--This little chap has…

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Golf Club Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 12

As in past years the annual Moss Vale Golf Club Ball was held in the main pavilion at the local show grounds here to-night. The interior of the pavilion was attractively decorated, and over 500 guests were…

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Redfern Band Council Votes £50

Evening News · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 10

"A subsidy of £10G" was the [?] Municipal Band's request to the local Council last night. The band is about to proceed to New Zealand to take [?]…

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Amusements Her Majesty's Theatre

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 15

"Sally," the new musical Comedy, with most brilliant and beautiful staging, gorgeous dressing and much original humour, has become a very firm favourite with its Sydney…

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Gutter Pictures Obscene Photos S.M. Severe

Evening News · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 8

Sitting in a gutter with three [?]seene photographs displayed in his hands, Harold Wainswright attracted the notice of Constable Boswell…

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Big Land Scheme Mr. Ally's Moving Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 19 January 1923 · page 4

By way of explaining his half-million-acre settlement scheme. Mr. R. B. Alty yesterday gave a private screening of a film, which he took recently,…

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