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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1930

6,198 stories in Sydney's papers · page 14 of 250

Ballet Goes Off with the Dance! State Theatre Terpsichore Out of Job

The Sun · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 18

Poor Terpsichore! This week her lovely limbs may be seen at the State Theatre. Next week she will be selling ham and…

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Dance at Blakehurst

The Propeller · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

On Saturday last a successful dance was held in the Blakehurst Progress Hall in aid of the St. George District Hospital. Euchre was played on the…

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Australia Day Pictures

The Land · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 1

CAPTAIN ARTHUR PHILLIP, R.N., Commander in Chief of the First Fleet, and first Governor of New South Wales. The fine block from which the portrait…

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E.s.u. Ball Plans

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 12

MEMBERS of the English-speaking Union, who held their first hospitality meeting in Fraser House yesterday afternoon, discussed arrangements for the…

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Kurri Pipe Band at Newtown. To-day

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

The Kurrl Kurrl Pipe Band which has been playing in ald of the Northern Miners' Defence Fund in several of the suburbs with meet encouraging…

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Randwick Lead in B Grade Band Championships

The Labor Daily · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 6

Although rain fell continuously and the attendance was small, the B Grade Band Championship was commenced at the Sports Ground last night…

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Youth and Beauty Bong Bong Pictures

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 3

THE artistic presentation of portraits and stories make the "Australian Sporting and Dramatic News" notable as a recorder of society doings. Youth and…

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Bulldog Drummond at Cronulla Theatre

The Cronulla-Sutherland Advocate · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 2

This famous story in picture Is to be shown at the Cronulla Theatre on Wednesday, Thursday and Friday next. In permitting its screening, Union Theatres…

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Crescent Theatre More Big Attractions

The Biz · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

There were large "houses" on Monday and Tuesday nights of this week to see "Broadway Melodv." which proved very popular at the…

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Amusements. Palace Theatre—"the Enemy."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 9

Miss Muriel Starr's season at the Palace Theatre will close on Tuesday next, so that there remain only four more nights of "The Enemy," the play bv Channing Pollock, in which Miss Starr appears…

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3d in Box for Canberra Band Canberra

Evening News · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 13

WAYS and means were the principal worry at the annual meeting of Canberra Band last night. "Have you tried collection boxes?"…

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Band Contest. B Grade Competition. Playing in the Rain

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 12

Although the rain was steadily pattering down at a quarter to eight, the time set for the opening of the B grade band competition it the Sports Ground last night, the executive…

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Woollahra's New Theatre. Gala for Crippled Children

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 12

The management of the new Wooltahra Theatre, which was opened, last night, celebrated the event by handing over the proceeds to the Citizens Crippled Children…

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Italy's Art. World's Greatest Pictures. Ii. the Painters' Painter

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 10

Raphael, the Painters' Painter, was the perfect technician, whose virtuosity never failed him except that it could not take him outside the third dimension, for no technique…

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Killed in Smash After Dance Story of Wild Drive: Man For Trial

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 11

The sequel to a midnight drive in a motor larry after a dance on December 20 was told to the Parramatta Coroner yesterday by…

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Ballet Girls and Talkies New Policy at the State Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 4

The ballet is no longer to be a regular feature of the State Theatre entertainment. "WE feel that audiences want a…

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Use of Town Hall. Granted to Unemployed Musicians. for Four Concerts

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 9

The Town Clerk, Mr. Layton, has informed the secretary of the Music Advancement Guild, Mr. R. Mccall, that the Chief Civic Commissioner, Mr. Garlick, has agreed that the…

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Town Hall Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 12

Madame Irene Ainsley, whose fine singing was of so much importance in the success of the Royal Philharmonic Society s production of "The Messiah" in December, was the…

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Presbyterian Concert

The Propeller · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 6

The first of a series of monthly concerts in aid of the organ fund of the Hurstville Presbyterian Churen was held on Saturday evening last in the…

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Organ Fund Concert

The Propeller · Friday 24 January 1930 · page 6

In aid of the organ fund of St. Paul's Church, Oatley, a concert was held in the local School of Arts on Wednesday, January 15th. Not only was…

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