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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1927

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Theatre Talent for the New Empire

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 7

MANY big artists, whose names have lately been blazoned on the sky signs of Broadway and London, will soon be familiar figures in Sydney…

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The World of Women From the Country C.W.A. Activities Dance at Armidale

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 10

Festoons of willows, pink paper roses, and natural green leaves, were used by Miss Norton and her assistants, Misses Chapman, Weaver, Helen…

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Concert Tour. Dame Nellie Melba. Melbourne

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 18 January 1927 · page 12

Dame Nellie Melba, who is returning to Australia by the P. and O. steamer Naldera, will, after a short rest, close her professional career with a final tour of the…

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Band Adjudicator

Evening News · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 10

The adjudicator of the inter State band contest, Mr. F. C. Johnstone of Victoria, is the conductor of the Collingwood Citizens' Band—one of the…

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Charters Towers' Band

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 12

Under the conductorship of Mr. A. W. Trembath, the Charters Towers (Qld.) Band is to give an open-air performance on Bondi Beach this evening…

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Barnardo Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 12

The first meeting of a Younger Set committee, which has been formed to help raise funds for the New South Wales branch of Dr. Barnardo's Homes,…

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The Ball Boys

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 9

Attendants at the Country Tennis Carnival, who claim to cover more ground than the players themselves…

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Dance for Queen Candidate

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 9

To help the candidature of Miss Reba Barnett, one of the eight nominees in the queen competition being conducted in connection with the forthcoming Eastern Garden Fair, a…

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Theatre Not Wanted

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 22

An application to build a winter garden theatre, to cost £16,000, on portion of the Parkside subdivision, New South Head-road, Rose Bay, was refused, after a lengthy…

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Assault in Theatre

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 6

Carl Rasmusson of Ferry Road, Drummoyne, was convicted at Balmain Court yesterday of having assouited Albert Yates, an usher at the…

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Keen Rivalry Interstate Band Contest

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 15

Keen rivalry exists between the two Toowoomba bands which will compote in the A and B grade interstate band contests at the Sports Ground during…

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Ball's Head and Berry's Island

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 22

The consideration of schemes for the erection of a rusticated shelter shed on Berry's Island and the planting of trees at Ball's Head Reserve…

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The Capitol. Canberra, Picture Theatre, Ltd

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 19

An abridged prospectus of The Capitol, Canberra, Picture Theatre, Ltd., appeared in our business columns yesterday. The authorised capital is £35,000 in 25,000 ordinary shares and…

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Manly Jubilee Ball To-night Castle Building

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 5

Over 500 persons are expected to attend the Manly Jubilee Ball to-night at Dungowan Hall, Manly. The plan shows that already there…

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Cheque for Hospital Bronte's Surf Queen at Dance To-night

The Sun · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 14

At the Bronte Surf Club's dance at the Bondi Casino to-night Miss Yvonne Corbett, Bronte's representative in "The Sun's" surf queen…

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An Interstate Page: Pictures from Perth, Adelaide, and Hobart the Largest Sailing Vessel Afloat

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 11

This is the barque Kobenbarn, which is now having repairs effected to her propeller shaft at Port Adelaide. The stern had to be raised so that the shaft should be above water, for there is no dry dock in South Australia…

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Trotting First Meeting of the Year A.t.c. Starts the Ball Rolling : May Bobbie's Third Successive Win

Referee · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 6

The Australian Trotting Club held the first meeting of the year in Sydney at Victoria Park on Monday. It was fairly well attended. May Bobbie, winner of the Flying Mile, registered her third successive win, having won at Epping on December 4, and at Epping again on December…

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Greeks' Concert for Sydney Hospital

Evening News · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 19

GREEK residents in Sydney, in recognition of the service rendered by Sydney Hospital, are arranging a concert and tableaux to be held at The…

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Hospital Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 19 January 1927 · page 10

A concert and series of tableaux vicants arranged by the Hellenic colony in Sydney in recognition of the services rendered by the Sydney Hospital, will be held at the King's Hall on Thursday. January 27. A…

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National Band

The Sun · Thursday 20 January 1927 · page 13

When the Newcastle Steel Works' Band returned from its triumphs abroad in 1920, the conductor (Mr. A. H. Baile) decided to form a National…

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