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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1930

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Race Club Ball

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 21

INCIDENTAL festivities closed with the Knee Club Ball, in the Show Ground pavilion, on Friday evening. Largely attended by country residents…

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Dance Party in Lorry Capsize

The Daily Telegraph · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 3

COBARGO, Saturday. -- A lorry, loaded with people returning from a dance at Bermagui last night, overturned when near Cobargo…

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BERLIN Dance While You Scrub

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 24

Rudolf von Laban, the famous German choreographer, wishing to make life pleasanter for the housewife, has invented a housework dance. The Berlin hausfrau…

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"Dream" Pictures Woman Who Painted in a Trance

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 3

MUCH curiosity has been aroused by an exhibition of strange mid wonderful "dream" pictures on Biblical subjects painted by n Geneva woman artist, Miss…

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Roxy Theatre, Parramatta Opens Thursday, February 6

Truth · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 11

FOR the first time in Australia a city theatre has been constructed in what might be termed a suburb, although…

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Vacuum Exhibit Full of Interest Moving Pictures of East-West Aerial Race

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 15

This firm's exhibit, in Stand 34, in the Hall of Industries, is, as usual, most interesting. Included in the display is n most…

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The Habit of Making Pictures Helen Crabbs Method in her School Art Class PUDDLES! How they are Transformed

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 1

GIVE a child five or six years old a pot of paint, fetch her a pot of water, and What will she do? She'll…

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Film Beauties Dine and Dance The Charm of Well-Groomed Hands How to Make One's Digits Look Their Best

Sunday Times · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 17

BEAUTIFUL hands are said to denote refinement and artistic temperament. But their chief commendation is that they add enormously to…

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Rank and File Will Decide Miners' Future Policy To-morrow Peril Film Ablaze City Theatre Two Dragged to Safety

The Sun · Sunday 12 January 1930 · page 2

Jack Woods, assistant operator, and a spool boy, Arthur Campbell, were in peril yesterday afternoon when at the…

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Merrylands Band Subsidy

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

Will Holroyd Council subsidise the Merrylands Gitizens' Band? The question has still to be decided. After having been referred at the…

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To-day's Pictures

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 11

Prince Edward: "The Love parade." State: The Saturday Night Kid and "Acquitted."…

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Arcadia Theatre Blaze

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 5

Fortunately for all concerned, the film used at the Arcadia Theatre, is, according to the manager, non-inflammable, and when the spool caught…

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Another Black Band on Beaches Yesterday

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 10

Heavy seas, undertows, and--coke! That describes most of Sydney's surfing beaches yesterday. Along most of the shores a thick…

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Fire in Picture Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 13

A burning spool was responsible for a call to the fire brigade late on Saturday afternoon from the Arcadia Theatre in Pitt-street. When the headquarters' brigade arrived at the…

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"Old Year Out" Dance For the Hospital

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 2

The members of the Eastwood Young Men's Institute finished up the Old Year and commenced the new one with an effort that combined pleasure for…

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Cricket Curiosities Clung to the Ball No. 60

The Sun · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

In a match between Paddington III. and Leichhardt [?] in 1905 N…

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Venetian Pictures for London London, Friday. (British Official Wireless.)

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 4

Prince George to-day performed the ceremony of opening the annexe to the National Gallery, which has been erected by the generosity of Sir…

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Peril in Theatre Film Catches Fire Operator's Plucky Save

The Labor Daily · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 6

Nobody in the crowded audience at the Arcadia Picture Theatre. Pitt Street, City, knew of the deadly peril they were in when a spool caught…

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Stage and Screen Will Rogers Clean Bowled—Many Laughs in "They Had to See Paris"—Clara Bow Gets Her Way—New Pictures Reviewed

Evening News · Monday 13 January 1930 · page 11

THEY played a neat truk on will Rogers, and the picture shows it. Production of "They Had to see Paris" was pretty much of a nightmare for the…

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Band Contest

Evening News · Tuesday 14 January 1930 · page 15

The 27th annual control promoted by the Band Association of N.S.W. will commence at the Sydney Sports Ground on Wednesday, January 22, and continue…

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