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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937

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Duke of Windsor Inspires New Dance Numbers

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 22

IT has not been a particularly happy Christmas for the Duke of Windsor. Presents have rolled in by the wagon load, and the Royal Family…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal—monte Carlo Russian Ballet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 12

To-night at the Theatre Royal the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet will commence its fifth successful week Three ballets will be presented for one week. "The Fire Bird" (Stravinsky-Fokine) will…

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Associated Talking Pictures' Big Line-Up Conrad Veidt In New Film

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 29

S. Y. GREISMAN, Australasian representative for Associated Talking Pictures, has received by cable advice of the new season's subjects, scheduled…

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Air Mail Pictures of Governordesignate's Home Life in England — Train Derailment at Canterbury

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 20

The photograph, above, of the Governor-Designate of New South Wales (Lord Wakehurst), and the pictures accompanying it, which arrived from London by air mail yesterday, give intimate glimpses of Lord Wakehurst's family life in England,…

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South Australia's Youthful Ambassadors Boys' Band Creates Furore in Sydney Lesson to the Other States

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 6

IN scarlet, blue, and gold uniforms, the 200 members of the Adelaide Boys' Band from South Australia invaded…

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Another Policeman As Censor of Art Pictures Publicly Exhibited in Reputable Art Show Shock a Sergeant

Smith's Weekly · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 4

IN June of last year the Australian Art Society held its 10th annual exhibition in the Education Department Galleries, Loftus Street, Sydney. Included in the show were two works by Rosaleen Norton, a young Australian artist. They were entitled "Nocturne" and "Rhapsody in Blue," and won favorable comment from competent critics. But Mr. T. Cohen, police magistrate, has ideas of art differing from those of painters and critics. In this he is…

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Gran Ballo Concerto ' Pro "Casa D'italia."

Italo-Australian · Saturday 23 January 1937 · page 2

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Air Raid Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 9

New pictures of Madrid's worst air raid are screening at the State Newsreel Theatrette. The Coronation robes are revealed by the…

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Secrets Of Band Contest

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 19

Tunes to be played by bands in this year's State contest at the Sports Ground are being kept…

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Fine Director Boleslawsky's Last Pictures

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 22

WHEN Richard Boleslawsky died in Hollywood last week, just before his 48th birthday, picture-goers lost a friend who had…

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Bib and Bub Words and Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 4

Mrs. Bear is quite keen on the "Ball-to-ball," But she really can't understand it at all. Sometimes she listens hard, it seems, But lots of times she only dreams…

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Boys! Cut These Pictures Out Yourselves For Your Album

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 7

Calais Express. Broadway Limited…

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Obscene Pictures Sent to Girls' School Australian Sentenced To Gaol LONDON

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 12

AN Australian who sent indecent and obscene pictures through the post to a well-known girls' school in England…

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The Wild Song And Dance Man Part Three: the Loves OF John Barrymore

The Sun · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 3

ROYAL FAMILY history repeats itself. At least, Jack Barrymore has been and still is a doubly sensational second…

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"Indecent Pictures" in City Club What S.M. Said of "49 STEPS" "Intended To Inflame Mind": Police

Truth · Sunday 24 January 1937 · page 24

PICTURES, two of which were imputed to the hand of a woman artist, seized by the police in a recent raid upon The 49 Steps Club, Castlereagh-street, were produced at the Metropolitan Licensing Court last week, and were…

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Bankstown Four-ball

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 17

Bankstown Golf Club will hold an open four-ball v. par event on Wednesday. Post entries will be accepted…

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Pink Ball for Billiards. London, Jan. 22

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 13

A suggestion by Walter Lindrum for the use of a pink ball for billard[?] has been coldly received in [?]ondon, Mr. John Bisset, chairmar of the Billia[?]s Association, told the…

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Vivid Pictures of Aeroplane Collision at Kingsford Smith Aerodrome—three Women Burnt to Death

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 12

An aeroplane piloted by Miss May Bradford, and carrying two women passengers, crashed at Kingsford Smith aerodrome yesterday afternoon, and the three women were burned to death. The crash followed a collision between Miss Bradford's 'plane and one piloted by Mr. P. Hoskins, which carried a man and a woman as passengers. At left: Miss Bradford's 'plane in flames soon after the accident. Above: Mr. Hoskins's 'plane, with the wing torn off…

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Ferrier Impressed by Golf Courses Crow Steals Ball During His Exhibition at Maitland Newcastle

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 25 January 1937 · page 18

MAITLAND has a nice nine-hole layout, with two outstanding holes--the first and fourth. The first is an exact replica of the first at St. Andrews, even to…

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Interstate Band Contests

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 26 January 1937 · page 4

The element of contrast in modern band music is recognised as being of great Importance by conductors nowadays, and the daily programmes…

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