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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1928

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Sporting Gossip From All Sources Ball Beats Bat -- Loose Ones Take Wickets -- Full-toss Dangerous -- Trumper and Richardson -- Kelleway Cannot Play -- Successor to Ellis

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 9 January 1928 · page 29

IN these days of predominance of bat over ball it is pleasing to watch a game in which the fortunes are more evenly distributed, as in the contest…

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Big Band Contest Newcastle

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

A ten-days' band contest, in aid of the £23,000 Newcastle Hospital appeal, is being arranged. The Mayor, Ald. Gibson, slated…

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Small Boy Ball Boys

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

A snap at the Country Week Tennis Carnival. The ball boys are marking the balls with identification numbers…

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"Dance Time" Revue at Tivoli

The Sun · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 20

The clean sweep represented by the new programme at the Tivoli means a particular treat for patrons, as it is one of the best all-round offerings that…

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How Ted Ball Beat Himself for £400

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 4

HAD Trainer Ted Ball not been so much of a rollingstone at Ascot on Wednesday, he would have gathered "moss"…

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Human Cannon Ball Shot 100 Yards Italian's Foolhardiness Turin

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 1

A HUMAN cannon ball, fired from a mortar, reached a net 100 yards distant before 300 spectators in Turin. Ugo Zacehint, one of the inventors,…

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Tell-tale Eyes Disease Shown by Ray Pictures Cause of Tobacco Poisoning

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 6

The popular myth that ophthalmic surgeons remove eyes, scrape or treat them, and replace them was exploded recently when the Royal Westminister…

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Fancy Dress Ball Festivities on P. and O. Liner Chitral Many for Sydney

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 18

SIXTEEN bells rang out the year on board the Chitral and the festivities attendant upon the commencement of another year were suspended while…

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"The Terror" Under the Bed Girls Shocked by Real Life Drama After Theatre Man Sent to Gaol

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 12

Sydney will not soon forget "The Terror," the thrilling mystery play that had such a successful run at the Theatre…

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Concert at Long Bay Joy for Prisoners

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 7

INMATES of Long Bay Penitentiary had the monotony of their confinement relieved for a few hours on Saturday, when a number of well-known…

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Fascinating Competition -- Rich Prizes That Must Be Won Where Is the Ball? Can You Place It? £250, in Cash, has to be Won in Novel Test of Skill Everybody Has an Equal Chance

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 10 January 1928 · page 3

£250 in cash, which MUST BE WON, Each Week. This is the reward for skill which the "Pictorial" offers its readers. All that is needed is to pick the spot where the ball was when this cricket photograph was taken…

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Great Success Studebaker Dance

The Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 21

THE Maccabean Hall, Darlinghurst, was the scene of gaiety oh Saturday night, when the Studebaker Corporation of Australasia, Limited,…

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Art Theatre. Dr. Ludwig's Project. Collaborated with Reinhardt

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 12

Dr. Richard Ludwig, who was owner and director of the Theatre Moderne in Vienna, and for several years was associated with Max Reinhardt in some of his celebrated theatrical…

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The Great Flight. "Sydney Mail" Pictures. Athletics and the Motor Show

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 14

The "Sydney Mail" issued to-day is an excellent record of the athletics of the past week. Cricket, tennis, football, and the Australian national games in preparation for…

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Scenes of "Red" Ruin in Canton-- Pictures That Tell a Grim Story

The Sun · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 24

THIS SELECTION OF EXCLUSIVE PICTURES, which has just arrived from Canton, gives some idea of the wanton and cruel havoc recently wrought by the invading Red army. The pictures were taken shortly after the "Reds" were overthrown by the Moderates-- after some degree of law and order had been established. The brutal scenes witnessed during the height of the Red coup are almost beyond parallel in history. Wealthy and poor alike were A RED STRONGHOLD.-- The picture shows one of the Red strongholds, shelled and destroyed by the Moderates The captured Reds were in turn…

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Adelaide Defeat Avenged by N.S.W. in Sydney Home Team Beats S.A. OUTRIGHT Nicholls Takes Four Wickets in Second, Innings and Completes Fine Double Mailey Shows Form with Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 8

New South Wales defeated South Australia yesterday by 118 runs, and won its first outright victory for the season. Hack and McKay resisted stubbornly for some time, but when Nicholls got them both in the one over there was no longer…

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Intriguing Problem with Rich Rewards -- Open to All the Batsman Hit the Ball -- But Whither? £250 in Cash Prises for Those Who Can Mark Where It Was in the Photograph Novel Competition -- Widespread Interest

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 11 January 1928 · page 3

Click ! The batsman sent the ball -- where? Three heads turned, two pairs of hands out-stretched, and no ball in sight. Yet it was in the original photograph, and the "Pictorial" offers its readers, as a reward for skill, £250 in cash…

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Suicide Stops Band Concert on Bondi Beach Conductor's Ghastly Discovery

The Labor Daily · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 1

As Mr. Edwards. conductor of the Bondi Beacn Band. mounted the bandstand on he beach last night. at 7.30 preparatory to the usual concert, he…

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The Week's Pictures L[?]

Evening News · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 4

Dolores Costelio, in "A Millian aid, appears as the victim of a scheming and ambitious mother. The letter character is pottrayed by [?]tty. others in the…

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The Smiling Ball Boy--- Country Carnival Snapshots

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 12 January 1928 · page 40

WON IN STRAIGHT SETS.-- Miss B. O'Donnell (South Coast). THE CHAMPIONSHIP EVENTS of the…

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