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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1929

6,815 stories in Sydney's papers · page 17 of 250

Wages Not Paid. Sydney Theatre Closes Doors

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 15

The show at the Grand Opera House, Sydney, was not proceeded with last Saturday afternoon and night, owing to trouble between the management and the…

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Expert Breakers Rob Picture Theatre Melbourne

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 6

[?]earily morning, expert safe breakers blow open the safe of the new Malvern Theatre, and decamped with money bags containing £500…

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Robbery at Theatre. Safeblowers Take £500. MELBOURNE

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 17

Thieves blew open the safe of the Malvern Picture Theatre last night, and stole a bag containing £500. The coats of attendants were used to deadon the sound of the…

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No New Theatre Tax Not a Fact, Says Bavin

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 1

The Premier yesterday declined to discuss the statements of certain theatre proprietors that it had been proposed to impose a State amusement…

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Old Sydney Pictures That Mark The Wonderful Growth Of Australia's Greatest City

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 24

The first building in Sydney—and therefore in Australia—Was a portable canvas, house, brought from ,England for the use of Governor Phillip. On January 27, 1788, it was placed in position on the east side of Sydney Cove. The settlement totalled 1030…

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Old Sydney. Early Pictures in the "Mail." International Cricket. Tramping in Papua

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 14

Appropriately, as we are celebrating the 141st anniversary of the birth of Australia, the "Sydney Mail" reproduces a number of pictures of early Sydney. The first of these…

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World of Women Big Dinner Dance Planned 9 Ladies' Committee Helps Havilah Homes

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 19

IN a cosy little corner of the palm court the ladies' central committee of the Havilah Homes held a well-attended meeting at the Ambassadors…

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Lighting "The State" Miles of Cable Palatial Beauty of Newest Theatre

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 7

UNION THEATRES' electricity order tor their newstate" Thratre and Shopping Block in Market Street constitutes the largest ever placed with…

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At the Pictures The King Seen and Heard — New Films The King Speaks

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 29

The quiet, clear voice of Kino George fills a theatre of massed interest and keenness. Eyes that have eagerly scanned the latest bulletins concerning his Majesty's progress now watch his strong,…

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Air Beacon on State Theatre for Night Flying Company's Offer to Civil Aviation

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 30 January 1929 · page 4

TOWERING 230 feet above tho city streets, flashing a beam that may be readily seen for 20 miles in every direction. Sydney's air beacon will be…

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Accident at Dance

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 5

Diving across the floor at a back to childhood" party at the Bondi Casino last night. William Noyes, 20. of Bellevue Bond. Double Bay. Suffered…

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The Week's Pictures

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 15

Lyteum. "The Jazz Singer" is now in its sixth week at the Lyceum. The story of the son of a Jewish cantor, who deserted his…

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Social Items. Ex-Students' Dance

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 20

Already ex-students' associations are deep in arranging their entertainments for the coming dance season. St. Vincent's College ex-pupils announce their annual ball for…

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Band Championship Parramatta Well in Running

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 16

The 26th annual championship band contest for New South Wales commenced on Wednesday of last week. Parramatta Citizens' Band entered in…

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Empire Theatre Re-opening

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 10

Messrs. Mar low and Rolls announce: that they anticipate re-opening the. Empire Theatre, when the necessary alterations are completed, with their, first…

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St. Vincent's Hospital. Annual Ball

The Catholic Press · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 25

At the invitation of the Mother Rectress, as patroness of the St. Vincent's Hospital Auxiliary, a large and enthusiastic meeting was held at the hospital on Thursday, the…

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Huge Chandelier for State Theatre

Evening News · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 9

TO supe[?]tend the [?] of the huge [?] and smaler light, in the State Theatre. Mr. Franz He[?] arrived at Sydney from Czecho-Slovakia…

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Spacious Beauty of Newest Theatre

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 7

Beauty of design a led to Tactically every modern scientistic and to con[?]ert mark the interior of the state Theatre. The auditorium is the largest in Sydn…

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St. James Theatre—"good News."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 17

The musical comedy "Good New" will reach [?] 100th performance at the St. James Thea[?] in this brisk version of college life in America. in which ever[?] on the [?] about the…

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Rainbow Air Beacon State Theatre and Block

The Labor Daily · Thursday 31 January 1929 · page 7

A PROPOSAL is forthcoming from a big Sydney firm that the air beacon to he elected as the summit of the Statu Theatre and Shopping…

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