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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1930

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

Concert to Aid Musicians

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 9

Another of the series of concerts to relieve musicians unemployed through the advent of the talkies is to be held at Bondi Beach on Sunday…

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Bat and Ball Duel; Bradman K.O.'d in Battle for Shield THRILLING N.S.W. Recovery After Disastrous Start Whitfield's Early Wickets: Allsopp's Final Slamming Century McCABE'S Innings Was a Model

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 10 January 1930 · page 5

Four for 84 .... 7 for 403. This tells the tale of the home side's early collapse and magnificent recovery yesterday with Love, McCabe, Allsopp, and Everett in the star roles…

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Band Music

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

The Metropolitan Band, conducted by Mr. John Palmer, will play in the Hyde Park rotunda tomorrow evening at 7.30 o'clock…

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Benefit Dance

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

A DANCE to assist Mr. Ray Devonport, a former member of the Seamen's Union, who lost his legs in a tramway. accident, will be held at the…

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A Noble Band

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

Mrs. Monday's noble band. Sent to us, from Fairyland. Takes the children by the hand. To show them Sydney's city grand…

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Turret Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

The season of "Alice in Wonderland" at the Turret Theatre is almost at an end. It will be staged to-day and to-night, and the last performance will be given next Saturday afternoon. On…

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Fullers' Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

Beginning with to-day's matinee, a change of programme will be made at Fullers' Theatre, when Mr. Ernest Lotinga and his company, who have won so much applause in their previous…

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Playbox Theatre

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

Following repeated requests from numerous playgoers for a continuation of "Strange Interlude." Eugens O'Neill's powerful psychological…

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The Race Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 19

To-night the final festivity of the Tirranna race weck was started when the members of the Picnic Race Club gave a ball in the pavilion at the showground. This was the largest…

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The Playbox Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 10

Extra performances of "Strange Interlude" during January having been arranged by Mr. Duncan Macdougall, the second of these will take place this evening at the Playbox Theatre. Mr. G…

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City Band in Hyde Park

The Labor Daily · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

The Metropolitan Band, conducted by Mr. John Palmer, will play an attractive programme of music in Hyde park Rotunda to-morrow evening at…

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Review of Theatre Tax Promised

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 6

MELBOURNE, Friday.--A promise that the State entertainments tax, as far as it applied to theatres, would be reviewed, was made to-day to Sir…

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On the Wall Barber's Pictures Fine Collection

The Sun · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 8

Walk into Mr. A. D. Swanson's "Carlton" hairdressing saloon, 80 Elizabeth-street, city, and you will be…

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Prince Edward Theatre. Broadcast to Antarctica

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 16

During the interval at the Prince Edward Theatre last night the musical director (Mr. Albert Cazabon) announced from the stage that the dialogue and music of Maurice…

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Band Reporter Not for Gaol No Further Action London

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 6

THE Government has decided not to proceed further in the case of the "Rand Daily Mail" reporter, Mr. Louw, who was sentenced to six…

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Feminine Note Tirranna Ball Frocking Princess Vogue Goulbourn

Evening News · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 8

A MARKED feature of the brilliant race ball which terminated the Tirranna festivities last night was the feminine note in the frocking. The younger the girls, the longer the frocks; the short skirt was left…

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Good "Talkies" Scarce Theatre Royal Closes For Week

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 2

When "talkies" were novel the public was easily satisfied, but receipts at many theatres have fallen to bedrock, and managers…

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Aerial Pictures of State-operated Colliery Quietly at Work Yesterday

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 18

Rothbury Colliery, showing (centre foreground) trucks of newly-won coal at the pithead, awaiting transportation. The volunteers' camp (background) and the police quarters (foreground). Only four mounted police were seen as the 'plane passed over…

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Tirranna Ball Fashions Frocks of Thirty Years Ago Waists Were Slender Goulburn

The Sun · Saturday 11 January 1930 · page 7

Tirranna race ball girls looked like their grandmothers at the Tirranna Club Ball at the Showground pavilion to-night. Shingled heads were poised above frocks of thirty…

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Concert Programme for the Capitol Theatre

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 13

TONIGHT BARNETT, the organist of the Capitol Theatre, has arranged a programme for to-day from 2FC. He will contribute a number of organ…

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