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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1926

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Mr. Baddeley Will Not Dance to Tune of Few Who Turn Down Jobs

Evening News · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 9

IN THE COURSE of informing a deputation from the A.W.U. today that [?] men would be employed in sydney shortly, the…

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

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 20

ON ALL THREES TO IT.--W. H. Christie, of Dubbo, takes a low one at the country carnival. CHRISTIAN VOLUNTEERS at Jezzine in Syria. SPECIAL ARTIFICIAL LAMPS are used…

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The Butt-rumford Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 12

Dame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennerley Rumford will give their final concert in the Town Hall to-night, as on Thursday they will leave by the Niagara for Auckland,…

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Listen-in To-night Radio Concert From New York New York

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1926 · page 11

The concert by Australian artists, arranged by Sir J. M. Elder, through the Radio Corporation, will be broadcasted from America's new…

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A Happy Band of Pilgrims

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 5

This party of unlive preachers arrived from Fiji yesterday by the Sonoma. Moses, the gentleman with the hat, is the father of the children. He is going to Papua with the Methodist Missionary Society. The other two natives are hound for the Solomons…

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Two Fine Pictures at Hoyt's

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 7

The trade screening of two [?] which presented a pleasing contrast took place at Hoyt's yesterday. In "The Manicure Girl" Rebe Da[?]…

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Olympia Theatre Weston

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 6

Clara Bow has a fine role in "Empty Hearts," and her vivacious personality should appeal to patrons who see the show at the Olympia Theatre, Weston…

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This Slow Ball Worried Him

Evening News · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 1

Punch took no chances with Grimmett's slow balls in the Sheffield Shield match…

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RETRIBUTION Mexican Bandits Band Dispersed Mexico City, January 12

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 9

A number of the bandits who massacred passengers and guards on a train near Guadalajara were killed in a fight with Federal…

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The Far North : A Land of Wonders Remarkable Pictures from Bathurst Island. — No. I: Turtle-Hunting

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 8

BATHURST ISLAND, with an area of 345 square miles, is situated 75 miles north of Darwin…

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Butt-rumford Concert Popular Night

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 13 January 1926 · page 4

Enthusiasm was the keynote of the final concert given by Dame Clara Butt and Mr. Kennerley Rumford at the Town Hall last evening. The auditorium was…

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Band Contest

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 7

The New South Wales [?] s[?]tion in co[?]tion with [?]net's 2FC, will hold its twenty-third annual and first [?]sting [?]l…

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Enjoyable Dance

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 2

Captain and Mrs. H. Wetherall entertained many guests at a dance at Loddington, Rose Bay, Among those invited were:--Dr. and Mrs. Foulds,…

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Rose Hall Dance

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 2

The usual monthly dance arranged by Mr. Ling and a committee of ladles and gentleman took place at Rose Hall last night, and was well attended…

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The Week's Pictures Strand

Evening News · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 15

"The Knockout" will be th[?] at the Strand on Saturday it features Milton Sills, and [?] reveals a…

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Theatre and Tragedy

Watchman · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 2

A report from London states that Colonel Mackenzie, a civil engineer, aged thirty-seven years, who had a brilliant war record, winning the D.S.O. and…

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Welcome to Vice-consul Dinner and Dance

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 2

The Paddington Town Hall was guy with flags and colored streamers last night, when the Italian community…

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Sargent's Pictures Memorial Exhibition London, June 13

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 1

Six hundred of the late J. S. Sargent's pictures, comprising a memorial exhibition at the Royal Academy, will be the art sensation of the year…

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Smithtown Convent. Annual Concert

The Catholic Press · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 37

The grand concert, which was given by the convent (Smithtown) pupils at the Gladstone Hall, proved a wonderful success Despite the inclemency of the weather,…

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St. Patrick's Day Celebrations. Record Attendance at Committee Meeting. Definite Arrangements for Procession, Sports and Concert

Freeman's Journal · Thursday 14 January 1926 · page 11

THE Archbishop of Sydney had the pleasure on Thursday of presiding at a record attendance of members of St. Patrick's Day Committee held in…

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