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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1927

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Free Seats Novel English Theatre

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 23

THEATRE customs were revolutionised in the Festival Theatre, which opened at Cambridge recently, when:-- Programmes that could be read in…

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How Did Dentist Dr. Lindsay Smith Come Into Possession of Those Stolen Pictures? Macquarie Street Suffering Recovery From Its Latest Sensation

Sunday Times · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 5

Macquarie Street is just getting over its first real sensation for years—the arrest of one of its professional men, Dr. Lindsay Smith, prominent dentist, on a charge of stealing pictures Professional and art circles in Sydney have been staggered somewhat by the arrest of that well…

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"Guid New Year" Big Scottish Concert! Enthusiastic? --Yes

The Sun · Sunday 2 January 1927 · page 2

"A guid New Year tae ane an' a', An' mony may ye see, An' aye through a' the years tad come,…

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Fullers' Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

"At the Party," the new revue at Fullers' Theatre this week, made up of songs, sketches, and "interludes," and dances, appeared to please Saturday night's audience, and will,…

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Tenterfield Scots Sports, Ball, Concert Tenterfield

The Labor Daily · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 6

The Border Caledonian Society held its annual sports yesterday at Tenter-- field. The weather wan ideal, and the attendance a record…

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Popular Girls a Round of Pleasures Ball on

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 8

Much interest is being taken in the winners of the "Popular Girl" Competition, recently organised in connection with the appeal for cancer…

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Highland Concert. Enthusiasm at Town Hall

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 3 January 1927 · page 4

Scottish music stirred a vast audience to patriotic fervour at the Highland Society's concert at the Town Hall on Saturday night. The ensembles of the bagpipes excited…

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Burnside Pipe Band

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 6

Impressed by the enterprise and pluck of the Burnside Orphans' Horno Boys' Pipe Band in entering for the Highland Pipe Band contest, decided at the Highland reunion on New…

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Tivoli Theatre "A Study in Contrast"

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 11

The appearance of Edward Moore and Emil Shy at the Tivoli Theatre last evening brought to Sydney a novel vaudeville turn. One of the pair, a…

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Dance Ban Mussolini Firm Night Clubs Closed London, Monday Night

The Sun · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 9

Signor Mussolini has opened a fresh campaign against dancing, as a result of the deaths of four dancers at the Apollo Cabaret, says a message from…

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Red Roll of Motor Grows Larger Four Country Fatalities Child Killed Coming From the Pictures Whole Family in Hospital

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 4 January 1927 · page 5

THE HOLIDAY WEEK-END was a tragic one for the country, no fewer than four deaths being reported from motor accidents, as well as 18 persons injured, several seriously. YESTERDAY WAS singularly free from motor smashes in the…

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Carinthia's Band

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 6

Radio listeners will be given an opportunity by 2 F.C. station on January 7 of hearing the famous hand on the Cunard tourist liner Carinthia…

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Sydney Girls at Bowral Dance

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 12

Bowral included in its New Tear festivities an enjoyable dance organised by a committee of stria from Bowral and Moss Vale, and held in…

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Dinner Dance to Popular Girls

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 14

Scene at The Wentworth, last evening, when the 10 winners of the Popular Girls Competition were the guests of honor at a dinner dance, at which they were presented with their prizes…

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For Women. Wentworth Dance. for Cancer Stamp Appeal

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 7

Thirty-two thousand pounds was raised by Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Godhard for the Cancer Stamp campaign, and to mark'its conclusion Mrs. Godhard organised a dance at the…

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AROUND the Shows Theatre Building in Australia

Referee · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 11

The expansive development of the lending Australian cities is one of the wonders of the times. Concurrent with this general development is the creation of new theatres to keep pane with the extending populations and needs for the most up-to-date theatrical productions. One…

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Popular Girl "Miss Broken Hill" Gala Ball for Fund

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 7

ONE of the features of the gala ball held at the Wentworth last night, to mark the close of the Cancer Stamp Fund, which has raised…

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Topics for Women a Big Success Stamp Appeal Closes with Dinner Dance

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 15

JUST as successful as the Cancer Stamp Campaign was in raising £32,000 by the sale of shilling stamps for the University Appeal, was the…

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Radio Talks London to Australia Experiments Soon Pictures Next London, Tuesday Night

The Sun · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 9

The special representative of "The Sun" has been informed that the official experiments in wireless telephony between Britain and Australia will…

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For Women Social Events of Importance End of the Stamp Campaign for Cancer Fund a Gala Dance

Evening News · Wednesday 5 January 1927 · page 12

THE presentation of the 12 most popular girls of the State in a series of tablcane vivants was a feature of the pala dinner dance…

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