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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1925

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Stage, Screen, and Concert Hall Grand Opera House

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 3 January 1925 · page 17

"Rosie O'Reilly;" Hugh J. Ward's delightful musical comedy is attraction record houses to the Grand Opera House…

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To-Day's Band Music

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 3

Randwick Municipal Band, Coogee Beach. 3 p.m. and 7.45 p.m. Conductor Mr. H. Berry. Glebe Municipal Silver Band. Jubilee Park, 8 p.m. Conductor. Mr. Andy Rae…

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Beat the Band Paris Music Halls

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 3

Miss Isabel, Ramsay writes from i Paris : "I met Sir Samuel Hordern enjoying a walk with Lady Hordern and Miss Hordern one morning in the…

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The Gossip of Sydney Wentworth Falls Golf Club Dance

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 4

On the evening of Boxing Day a very enjoyable dance was arranged by the ladies of the Wentworth Falls Golf, Club. In the arrangements…

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Theatre Fire Early Morning Outbreak Redfern Picture Palace

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 7

The Redfern Picture Theatre was severely damaged by a fire which broke out shortly before half-past 2 this morning…

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Golf Rules Ignored Cleaning the Ball Mercy for Bad Shots

The Sun · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 12

This widespread practice of cleaning the ball on the green is one more instance of a rather poor spirit of affectation which has settled upon the game in modern times…

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Film & Theatre Page Stage and Screen Personalities an Admirer

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 7

It is not often that the part of dame in a pantomime is played by a women, but Lottie Sargent has this distinction in The Bunyip, Fullers'…

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Talk of the Theatres Yesterday's Shows and Pictures at the Haymarket

Truth · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 6

"Tarnish." now screening at the' Haymarket Theatre, ombraces a highly emotional romance which, as the publicity man puts it, might be apply…

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Railways Jellyfish Reply of Jellyfish Cabinet Treasurer's Flourish of Trumpets Questions for Mr. Ball

Sunday Times · Sunday 4 January 1925 · page 7

The comments of the Sunday Times of last week dealing with the failure of the Government to carry out the recommendation of the…

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Tivoli Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

If prolonged applause and insistent demands for encore numbers can be taken as a criterion, the Novelle Brothers have already firmly established themselves in the good…

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Fuller's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

Wee Willie Lancet, a comedian of note, made his first appearance in Sydney at Fuller's Theatre, on Saturday, and his success was pronounced. As a boy home from a…

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Band of Hope Union

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

On Saturday and Sunday Mr. W. H. Rose (national secretary of the Australian Band of Hope Union) conducted a series of beach meetings at Manly. He reports that a large…

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Fire in a Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

The police are making inquiries concerning an outbreak of fire early yesterday morning in promises in Lawson-place, occupied as a picture palace by Alfred Gartrell, and owned…

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On the Beaches Band of Hope Campaign

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

The Australian Band of Hope Union is meeting with success in its temperance campaign on the beaches. A meeting at Manly Beach on…

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Origin of Rugger First Run With Ball

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 5

In "The Sun" recently there was an article on the origin of football in which the author says it would be interesting to speculate on the origin of the different games-- where…

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Through the Eye of a Camera News of the Hour in Topical Pictures

The Sun · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 16

INTO THE NARROW WAY.-- Crowds inspecting the architectural beauties of the Spit Bridge. So popular has the footway become that it could have been built a little wider without inconvenience to pedestrians. WHAT WILL HAPPEN?-- Some of the men, who have been…

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Pictures That Talk Latest Wonder an Elaborate Principle (T.j.p.) London, October 20

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 10

For fifteen years and more attempts have been made to synchronise the cinematograph and the talking machine but without much success.' A…

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Produce Market. Overseas Butter Market Reduced [?]Fall--Local Market Must Come Back-Cheaper Bacon To-day—rorator, and Onions V[?]—Fruit Glut—F[?]s May Be Ad concert This Weck--A Weak Cheese Market

The Labor Daily · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

The London butter market at the [?] was reduced ranging from 176 to 180 a cwt., for [?]…

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Heughan Concerts Successful Opening of Second Series

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 11

The incomparable Scottish basso, William Heughan, began a second series of recitain at the Conservatorium Hall on Saturday evening. He attracted a large…

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The Heughan Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 5 January 1925 · page 6

Mr. William Heughan, having returned from Queensland on his way to New Zealand, bogan a series of five concerts at the Conservatorium on Saturday night, and exhibited anew…

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