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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1936

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Liberty Of Choice Is Policy Of Liberty Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 8

CONCERNING a statement by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in yesterday's "Telegraph" to the effect that, within three Weeks, their films Would be presented on the…

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Through "Smith's" Private Projector What Does the Big Show of 1936 Hold in Store? Looking Back Over a Record Year Of Pictures

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 22

SO another film is clapped into the rack. The Operator yawns, perhaps, up in his Projection-Room. Farce or tragedy, laughter or tears, the old show is over. But the session goes on. The new film--is it farce…

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Harbour Concert Excursion

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 10

The two largest vessels of the fleet of Sydney Ferries, Limited (Kuttabul and Koompartoo) will make the usual concert excursion round the harbour to-morrow evening. Each will carry a…

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Sunday Concert

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 4 January 1936 · page 10

The programme of a concert to be given by Mr. G. Faunce Allman at the Town Hall on Sunday at 3.15 p.m. will include the Toccata and Fugue in D Minor by Bach, "Jesu, Joy of…

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Spanish Dance

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 46

Near in the darkness, fairily thin. The sweet, sharp sob of a violin! And the dancers sway in the scented…

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Bub and Bub Words and Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 1

Said Dr. Stork, "I've a lot to do, So many creatures are sick at the zoo." Poor Mrs. Hippo has a toothache again, Such a 'normous face gives a lot of pain…

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"Princess Ida" Next for Theatre Royal

Truth · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 23

NOWADAYS the satire of "Princes Ida" (which opens at the Theatre Royal next Saturday, starling: at the matinee, is far more readily…

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The Little Theatre Masques And Players

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 47

THERE is an unfortunate tendency to slur the importance of sketches in the presentation of a revue. Those who can neither dance…

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War Dance How Italy Was Halted Abyssinia Has Initiative London

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 5

Long before Mussolini announced on December 31 that pauses were indispensable in colonial wars, it was clear that…

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Have We Concert Manners?

The Sun · Sunday 5 January 1936 · page 17

One of the world's greatest musicians (Rosenthal, the pianist), has just set critics and concert-goers by the ears…

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Interstate Band Contests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 10

During the interstate band contests which will begin in Sydney on January 22, Saturday afternoon, January 25, will be devoted to the juvenile bands competing for the S. S. Crick…

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Death at Dance

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 7

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Between dances at Cathedral Hall. Brunswick Street, Fitzroy, last night, Thomas Goslin of Albion Street, West…

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"After the Dance."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 6 January 1936 · page 6

"After the Dance" relies for its plot upon one of those far-fetched misunderstandings which tired film writers delight in. It would have been a very natural thing for Jerry…

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Mayfair Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 7

A new programme which will be presented at the Mayfair Theatre from to-day will include "Mairy the Girl," in which Sonnie Hale and Winifred Shotter appear, and "Vintage…

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At the Pictures

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 14

"THE LAST OUTPOST" is an attempt to envision on film two footnotes in World War history involving activities of British forces. The first incident, supposedly taking place…

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Travel Pictures. The Matterhorn

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 2

The highest peak of the Swiss Alps, mirrored in a blue mountain lake. The peak is 14,661 feet above the sea level…

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Hobart Theatre Royal

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 15

MR. ROBERT POLLOCK (Cremorne), having just returned from another long…

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Bonnie Doon Four-ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 17

The usual invitation four-ball event will be held at Bonnie Doon to-day…

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Band Music. Revival Movement. Annual Sydney Contests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 12

The appearance in Sydney this month of more than 900 competing bandsmen, some of whom will have travelled more than 1700 miles to take part in the annual band…

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SANCTIONS and the WAR Pictures from Italy and Abyssinia

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 8 January 1936 · page 11

A DUBAT SOLDIER. An Abyssinian "cavalryman" with his specially trained camel. Above:…

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