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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1925

5,844 stories in Sydney's papers · page 23 of 250

Alfred O'shea. Saturday's Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 9 February 1925 · page 5

The popularity of Mr. Alfred O'Shea's concerts at the Conservatorium has grown as the series has advanced. Saturday night's concert drew the largest house of all, and…

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Mission Band

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 2

The Clyde Workmen's Mission Band paid another visit to the Homes for aged men at Macquarie-street, Parramatta, on Sunday last, and gave the inmates a…

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Sydney's Musical Wants Providing an Orchestra Public Cannot Support Two Organisations

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 4

The request made by a deputation to the Lord Mayor last week for municipal support to assist in the resuscitation of the…

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Lithgow's Band Conductor to Resign Juvenile Class Started Lithgow

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 3

A meeting of the Lithgow Town Band was held recently. Mr. H.W. Cook Presided. On being asked if he intended to…

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Preserving St. Paul's News of the hour in Topical Pictures

The Sun · Tuesday 10 February 1925 · page 16

TOO DANGEROUS.-- Parents refuse to send children to school over such crossings. This is opposite the Crown- street School. Mr. Bruntnell is thinking the problem out. PRESERVING ST. PAUL'S.-- Workmen engaged on the renovation. ("Times" photograph.)…

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"Theatre Beautiful."

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 7

Eddie Horton will introduce an on[?] new programme at the Prince Edward "Theatre Beautiful" this week when he will play on the…

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Municipal Orchestra. to the Editor of the Herald

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 14

Sir,—I would be obliged if you would grant me sufficient of your valuable space to draw attention to a momentous question now awaiting the decision of the Lord Mayor ot Sydney…

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The Repertory Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 16

The steady advance of the repertory movement in Sydney may be regarded as exceedingly significant in its relation to the future of the drama in this part…

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The Theatre. Actors and Actresses Arrive

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 18

Ovorsea vessels arriving in Sydney yesterday brought several people associated with the theatrical business. Miss Minnie Hooper, who, with her…

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Technical Schools. Newcastle Surf Carnival. Bowls Championships. "Sydney Mail" Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 16

A special article in this week's "Sydney Mall" regarding the work of the reorganised Junior Technical schools section of the New South Wales educational system is a…

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Through the Eye of a Camera -- -- News of the [?]our in Topical Pictures

The Sun · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 16

NATURE FLAYS TRICKS WITH NATURE. -- A weirdly beautiful picture of Niagara when the huge cataract is turned into an ice sheeted chasm. As the old Pompeians were petrified where they stood, so is the spray caught and turned into hummocks of ice before it falls. WASH YOUR CAR IN THREE MINUTES in this American garage. You send the car in one door, and walk round to the front, and it is sent out cleaned, polished, and looking like new…

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The Theatre Land The Outsider is a Sensation: Brilliance of Moscovitch : Tivoli and Fuller Topics: Notes from Everywhere

Referee · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 15

There was a feeling of expectancy about Sydney's usual first-nighters as they took their seats at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, because…

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Amusements. Amy Castles' Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 February 1925 · page 11

The plans for the series of operatic concerts to be given by Miss Amy Castles in the Town Hall open on Monday at Paling's. Four concerts will be given, commencing Saturday, 21st inst. Miss Castles has…

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Westmead Boys' Band. Notable Successes

The Catholic Press · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 20

The Westmead Boys' Home Band recorded some remarkable successes in the recent band competitions conducted at the Sydney Sports Ground. Altogether 22 bands…

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The Week's Pictures Prince Edward

Evening News · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 14

The male gar who goes to the prince betward has many personalities upon [?] the can shed her radunce. She was either fall for…

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Will Sydney Get Its Orchestra ? Music for the People Labor's Interest

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 5

It was a Labor Government that gave us the much-lamented State Orchestra. What that orchestra, under Verbrugghen, did for…

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Modern Drama. National Theatre Needed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 9

Lecturing at the Unitarian Church on Tuesday night on "The Pessimism of Modern Drama," Mr. W. F. Jackson (president of the Shakespeare Society)…

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Reviews. Travel Pictures. O'Higgins and Chili

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 16

Our author takes us back to the eventful year, 1914, and begins his story in the Bay of Valparaiso the day Von Spee on his flagship Scharnhorst cast…

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Ball's Head As Public Reserve Council Restive

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 4

The dedication of Ball's Head as a public reserve was again the subject of a great deal of debate at Tuesday night's meeting of the North Sydeny…

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Through the Eye of a Camera -- -- News of the [?]our in Topical Pictures

The Sun · Thursday 12 February 1925 · page 16

TO SPAN THE GOLDEN GATE. -- This is the architect's drawing. The bridge will be 4000 feet between piers. The North Shore Bridge will be 1825 feet. The towers will be 1010 feet high. The North Shore Bridge will be 285 feet. The full length of the bridge will be over 1½ miles. The North Shore Bridge is under the mile. The cost of construction will be nearly 5½ million pounds, just what our bridge will cost[?] FRESH-AIR LIFE APOSTLE in his box home at New York which he has made from ammunition cases…

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