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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1924

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Theatre Employees Strike Danger Past

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 8

All danger of a strike in the Ward Fuller theatres is now past. Many of the non-union employees at these theatres have joined the…

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Return of Havana Band Robb Wilton's Last Nights

Referee · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 15

To-morrow night io your last chance to hear Robb Wilton at the Tivoli, so if you have not already heard him, do next miss your opportunity…

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The Country Champion Band Will Not Visit Sydney LITHGOW

The Sun · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 10

The Lithgow Town Band, State champions, will not defend the title at the Sydney competitions during Anniversary week. The prize money…

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The Bridge Who Will Decide? Cabinet Division Mr. Ball Emphatic

Evening News · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 7

IMPORTANT differences of opinion have already arisen in regard to the method of selecting the successful tender for the North Shore Bridge…

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Wheat Harvest. Splendid Pictures in the "Sydney Mail." Week-end Sport

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 12

The "Sydney Mail" estimates that this season's wheat yield in New South Wales will not exceed 32,000,000 bushels, averaging somewhere about nine bushels to the acre—the…

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Sydney Five Hundred Favorites Disappoint Backers S. Ball—Nearly a Treble

Sydney Sportsman · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 3

The Five Hundred twelve furlongs event at Victoria Park Sydney, on December 31, drew an attendance which was nearly a record for a Sydney trotting meeting. Run on a public holiday, and free of any racing opposition, a large crowd was present at the meeting…

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Off the Boards Theatre Conference Union Makes Proposals MELBOURNE

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 10

At a conference between the Theatrical Managers! Association and the Australian Theatrical Employees' Association, the union representatives…

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Amusements. Opera Class Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 16

In aid of the funds of the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital Drive, a concert is announced for to-morrow evening, at the Conservatorium of Music, under the direction of Mr. Ernest A. Mowle. The much-discussed…

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Opera Chorus Propaganda for Australians Appeal for Support Concert to be Given

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 10

Further aspects of the opera chorus trouble were put forward yesterday by Mr. C. Dunn, secretary of the Actors' Federation, other representatives of…

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Male Chorus First Public Concert Empire Fair Feature

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 9 January 1924 · page 5

The crowaing feature of the British Empire Fair, which is now attracting interested crowds to the Town Hall, will be the first public appearance of the male…

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Sacred Pictures

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 9

It is hard to see how any possessor of a book of photographs, one who hangs in his room the portraits of relatives who tend him no longer on earth,…

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The Theatre

The Catholic Press · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 21

Irene Vanbrugh and Dion Boucicault have not disappointed the Sydney audiences who so long waited for them in anticipation of a stage "treat." There…

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The Week's Pictures By the Film Critic Prince Charming

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 12

In "Merry-go-Round." to be acreened at Hoyts' on Saturday, Prince Charming comes into the life of pretty Agnes Grban (Mary Philbin). the humble…

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Fish Town "Dance of the Seven Snakes" London's Baby Walrus

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 14

IS FISHING A PLEASURE OR HARD WORK?—The "New" photographer was at Cowan Creek at the week-end and saw this fisherman with his assistant tramping around the mud flats for worms. The fisherman had forgotten his bait!…

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Liquor at a Dance Illegal Sale Costs £25 COWRA

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 7

A young man named Arthur Steedman, son of a local hotelkeeper, drove to a dance at Darby's Falls in a motor-lorry. Constable Francis, of Mount…

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Pen Pictures From the Commons Labor Holds the Whip Hand Whistles Red Flag When Speaker Takes Chair "Jack Jones Dunno Where He Are"

Evening News · Thursday 10 January 1924 · page 1

THIS session of the British House of Commons, provided it rune its course, should be the most interesting in its history. Labor [?] to hold to the whip hand of the political situation,…

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Dance

The Workers' Weekly · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 4

A PUBLIC DANCE IS HELD AT THE COMMUNIST HALL 395 SUSSEX STREET ON EVERY SATURDAY EVENING. GOOD…

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MORTDALE. Band’s Opening Classical Concert

The St George Call · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 6

The Citizens’ Band gave an opening classical concert in the local picture palace last Sunday afternoon. The use of the building was generously donated…

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Labour League Ball

The Propeller · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 2

Homedale Hall was an animated scene on Monday last, when the local A.L.P, held its annual ball, and, despite summery weather, a record attendance…

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Bondi Casino Dinner Dance

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 11 January 1924 · page 3

The dinner dance at the Casino, Bondi, last night attracted almost 200 patrons. The spacious ballroom was bright with the ladies' colorful frocks,…

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