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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1936

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Band Music

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

The Professional Musicians' Band, conducted by Mr. A. Tremain, will play at Taronga Park today at 2.45 o'clock…

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Travel Pictures

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 7

Rural England. A flock of sheep on pastures near Ennerdale Waters, Cumberland…

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Travel Pictures

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 2

A Criminal Hide-Out. The Rue de la Reynard, in Marseilles, France, a congested, warren-like neighborhood, in which the police find it immensely difficult to locate "wanted" persons…

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Three-day Dance

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 7

In the mysterious land of Bhutan, far to the North of Assam, lives a strange race of people. They make their clothes from nettle fibre, feast upon the flesh of…

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at the PICTURES

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 20

ANY producer who can cast Clark Gable as a valiant sea captain, Wallace Beery as a villainous pirate chief, and Jean Harlow as the bad girl with a heart of gold, who holds the key…

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Carnarvon Four Ball

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 3

Carnarvon Golf Club will hold an open four-ball v. par competition on Thursday, January 2. Times may be booked by phoning UX7931. Post entries will be accepted…

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New 'Ball System Is Suggested Restrictions On Residence May Be Discarded

The Labor Daily · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 3

IT is on the cards that the N.S.W. Baseball Association will throw out the residential restrictions applying to players to the major grades…

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Russian Theatre. Shakespeare Popular. the Bard As a Marxist. (From Our Special Representative.) By Air Mail. LONDON, Dec. 14

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 10

The Soviet authorities have decided to summon a Shakespeare World Congress in Moscow. As a preliminary, a new conference of Soviet Shakespeare experts is to meet in…

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Concert for Unemployed

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 11

From 10 o'clock last night until 12.15 this morning a concert was in progress at Canon Hammond's Hotel for unemployed men. A number of prominent artists assisted in the…

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Amusements. New Year Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 1 January 1936 · page 5

The Highland Society will Rive a New Year concert at the Town Hall to-night at 8 o'clock. The artists will include Jenny McLauchian, John Gilding, and Lionel Lawson…

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New Year Dance

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5

Wentworthville School of Arts' New Year's Eve dance attracted over a hundred people. It was one of the institution's most successful effort…

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Successful Dance Granville Caledonians

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 3

Most successful of the year was the monthly dance held in the Granville Town Hall last Saturday, organised by the Granville and District Caledonian…

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Caledonian Society Another Successful Dance Function

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 10

The attendance at the Parramatta and District Caledonian Society's regular dance in the town hall, Parramatta, on Saturday, December 21, was a up to…

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Long Band Trip From Cairns To Svdnev

The Sun · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 9

The Cairns Citizens' Band, which will travel one of the longest journeys ever undertaken by a band to compete in a Sydney band contest,…

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Pictures Add to Joy of Living

Catholic Freeman's Journal · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 10

NOT many of us like to look at bare walls. Most homes feel the need of some relief, and the home without pictures seems to lack warmth and…

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BALL Pendle Hill Success Social Hall

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 5

The new year was merrily welcomed at Pendle Hill Social Hall on Tuesday, when the institution's annual ball was held…

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"Oppy" a Basket Ball "Star" Cycling Celebrities Relax

Referee · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 12

BICYCLES and basketball have formed an "entente cordiale." Hubert Opperman, international cyclist, is cutting training…

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Final Curtain an Exciting Story of the Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 13

THE bathroom door shut softly behind Henry. The front-door bell went on ringing loudly. The woman seated at the dressing-table continued calmly powdering her face and neck…

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All Aboard Tile Magic Carpet To See The Winter Fashions Braiding Follows The Band Tailored Styles For Sixteen To Sixty After Dark

The Labor Daily · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 9

"MID-SUMMER in Australia is so largely a matter of wide-leafed millinery, cool, flowered frocks, silk suits, and delicately-colored…

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St. Joseph's Convent, Bangalow. Successful Concert

The Catholic Press · Thursday 2 January 1936 · page 37

Seating accommodation in the A. and I. Hall, Bangalow, was inadequate when a juvenile concert was presented by the pupils of St. Joseph's Convent, Bangalow. The…

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