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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1926

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Southern District News One Each Month Euchre and Dance

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 7

At a special meeting of the committee of the Smithfield Literary Institute, on Thursday, 14th January, it was decided to organise a function for the first Saturday…

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Brilliant Ball. Moss Vale Golf Club. Moss Vale

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 15

The Agricultural Hall, Moss Vale, was most effectively decorated for the local Golf Club ball, to-night. Streamers of blue, mauve, pink, and green hung like a canopy across the…

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

The Sun · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 14

THE ARTIST STOOPS TO CONQUER--PENNIES.--Pavement artists are not as numerous as they used to be around Sydney streets. ODDS AND ENDS.--There was a big crowd at Darling Island when the unclaimed lost property recovered by the Railway Department found new owners. Great bargains can be…

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Lovely Shawls and Fur Coats Golf Club Ball Moss Vale Function Moss Vale

Evening News · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 14

THE MOSS VALE Golf Club held its annual ball in the Agricultural Hall last night, where many of the picnic race-goers ended up the day…

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What Sydney Junior Cricketers Are Doing Breezy with Bat and Ball : Holiday Features Western Suburbs Doings Thrills at Erskineville Park : New Blood from Auburn

Arrow · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 5

The big crowd relished the thrills served up on Erskineville Park, and the regulars never miss junior games fought out in real Test match fashion…

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Ionic Club Grand Benefit Concert

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 7

Fairfield Ionic Club will benefit materially as a result of the grant concert held on Tuesday evening in the local School of Arts…

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Sunday Concert

The Propeller · Friday 22 January 1926 · page 6

The Hurstville Brotherhood held, their usual Sunday afternoon concert in the Masonic Hall last Sunday. The orchestra, under the conductorship of Mr…

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Band Music

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 12

The Metropolitan Band, conducted by Mr. John Palmer, will play at Taronga Park Zooligical Gardens to-morrow at 8 p.m…

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Hoyt's Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 12

Putrons of Hoyt's de Luxe theatre will have the opportunity of seeing Jaqueline Logan, Margaret Living ston Walter McGrail, Robert Cain, and Frank Keenan in James Oliver Curwood's drama of North-western…

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Fullers' Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 12

Valideville will be resumed at Fullers' Theatre this afternoon, the run of "Robinson Crusoe" having closed. Among the attractions wil be Afrikander's performing lions. New English acts will be those of Bert Elliott,…

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Band Contest at Sports Ground

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 9

Weather conditions were more favorable for the championship band contest at the Sports Ground last night than on the previous evening, when C…

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Nenean Picture Theatre

Nepean Times · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 1

It will be seen by handbills that Penrith is in for a royal time during the next few weeks. On Anniversary night (26th January) "The Thief of…

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Band Contest. B Grade Competition

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 16

The first section of the B grade competition constituted the programme at the Sports Ground last night, when the championship band contest was continued, before a larger…

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Band Contests Quick-step To-morrow

The Sun · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 6

The second session of the band competitions was entered upon last night at the Sports Ground. After the finish of the B grade…

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Race Club Ball. Brilliant Function

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 16

The most successful of all the Bong Bong race festivities was the club ball held in the Agricultural Hall last night. The decorallous of the Moss Vale Golf Club Ball…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal—"monsieur Beaucaire."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 12

Six nights remain of "Monsieur Beaucaire" at the Theatre Royal, since, as the result of previous arrangements made, the romantic costume play must be withdrawn on Friday next, to make way for "The…

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"Theatre Society & Home" "Theatre, Society a Home" Has Been Reduced in Price and Enlarged in Size

Daily Commercial News and Shipping List · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 5

Published on the First Day of Every Month. Obtainable all bookstalls and news agents throughout Australia…

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Brilliant Finale to Picnic Meeting Race Club Ball Beautiful Frocking Moss Vale

Evening News · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 3

IF THE Bong Bong Picnic Races [?] any enthusiasm it was made up last night at the club ball, which was a finale to the meeting…

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Theatres and Concert Halls in 1901

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 23 January 1926 · page 21

Ally attempt to visualise the progress of the theatre a quarter of a century hence is to set the imagination whirling like the wheels of a…

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Band Music

Sunday Times · Sunday 24 January 1926 · page 18

Metropolitan Band, directed by Mr. John Palmer, Taronga Park, 3 p.m. At Coopece Beach, grand combined concert, Ipswich Railway Band and Randwick…

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