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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1931

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The Playbox Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 8

'Saturday's Children" is performed on Wednesdays and Saturdays at the Playbox Theatre…

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St. James Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 8

"Puss in Boots," the pantomime at the St. James Theatre, is to run for another week only, with two performances daily. For Saturday next Mr. Ernest O. Rolls has chosen the revue "Topsy Turvy,"…

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Theatre of Youth

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 8

The Christmas programme of the Theatre of Youth will be played for the last times this afternoon and evening. There will be, at next week-end, a revival for three weeks only of "French Without…

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State Theatre—"whoopee!"

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 8

"Whoopeel" is in the midst of a prosperous season at the State Theatre. It will be followed by an English film, "On Approval," based on Frederick Lonsdale's play of the same name, in which some…

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Theatre Controls Universal and Radio

The Sun · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 3

"I have never heard of any suggestion to wire Her Majesty's Theatre for talkies, and I know of no overtures from film companies with…

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Golf Ball Was Stolen Trials of Moore Park Players

Daily Pictorial · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 18

Though police and rangers are said to be on the lookout, ball thieving is increasing at the Moore Park Municipal Golf Links, and…

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At the Dance Alleged Struggle in a Room Girl's Charge Against Young Man

Nepean Times · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 1

Alleged improper conduct by a young man toward a young woman in a room at the rear of a dance hall at Wallacia, on New Year's Eve,…

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I Concerti a Firenze Firenze, 25 Novembre

Italo-Australian · Saturday 10 January 1931 · page 2

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Band Music To-day

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 9

Manly wharf at 2 p.m., and Maiden Memorial Pavilion, Botanic Gardens, 3.15 p.m., Metropolitan' Band; Mr. John Palmer, conductor…

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Four Marx Brothers At Prince Edward Theatre

Truth · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 8

THE inimitable Marx Brothers, famous Broadway comedians, who scored an outstanding success in their last talking picture "The Cocoanuts," are now…

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Fast Ball the Hour and the Man Strange Tryst

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 6

INSTINCT told me, as soon as I saw the broadset, elderly figure hurrying out of Woodstock Chambers, Pitt-street, that here was the…

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More Points About Cricket Etiquette "Dead" Ball Catches on Boundary Queer Joke

The Sun · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 12

Many appreciative references by readers of "The Sunday Sun" to my former article on cricket…

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Wonderful Concerts For Children Barbers Trim 100 Heads Free of Cost

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 5

Two wonderful concerts for the Marly camp of far-west children were those of the Noel Club and the Sydney Operatic Society…

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Field Lost Ball For Prizes Before 5 p.m. To-morrow! Eleventh Hour Hunt May Win Welcome Cheques Bright Sport to Fill In Idle Moments Scope for Shrewd Heads

Daily Pictorial · Sunday 11 January 1931 · page 5

Adjust your mental equipment, take your pen, and find the ball! IT is the eleventh-hour chance of…

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Benefit Dance to Jack Macfarlane

The Labor Daily · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 3

MOORE PARK junior cricketers have rallied to the support of Jack MacFarlane, who has been ill for twelve…

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Band of Hope. New Club Opened

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 14

The Sydney Central Band of Hope, which works among 200 young people in Darlinghurst and Surry Hills, has secured a clubroom at 29 Flinders-street…

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L.t.a. Ball Boys' Strike

The Sun · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 8

Nineteen ball boys refused to work at the N.S.W.L.T. grounds, Rushcutters Bay, to-day, complaining that with a new system by which…

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Ball Boys Strike Stir at Big Tennis Carnival

Evening News · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 5

RUSHCUTIER'S DAY teams courts are the scene of the latest "strike." Nineteen of the 30 bell-boys engaged for the "Country Week" carnival…

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New Milne Play. "Michael and Mary " Savoy Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 5

A. A. Mllno has written a play of engrossing Interest in his "Michael and Mary," with which Miss Doris Fitton successfully began her new season at the Savoy Theatre on…

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World Women Band of Hope Club Social Work Among Young People

The Labor Daily · Monday 12 January 1931 · page 7

"IN a crowded centre like ours, the Band of Hope should be more than a mere meeting, an occasion for singing a few hymns and giving a…

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