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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937

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Beauty and the Dance

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 11

Graceful Helene Kirsova and Igor Yousskevitch, as they appear at the Theatre Royal in "Les Presages," with the Monte Carlo Russian Ballet. The girl with the halo is…

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Music Notes Music and the Dance

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 13

THE opening of the ballet season in Sydney brings us to the consideration of the music of the dance…

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Old Beer at the Dance Wollstonecraft Man Fined

Truth · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 13

LINDON BIDDULPH (24), storemanpacker, of Wollstonecraft, with two friends, decided to go to the North Narrabeen Surf Club's dance. He took…

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Tragedy Told in the Dance Dramatic Power Portrayed in "Destiny"

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 11

A great moving tragedy, "Les Presages" ("Destiny") was danced by Colonel W. de Basil's Monte Carlo Ballet last…

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Goat As Movie Fan Antics in Theatre at Bexley

The Sun · Sunday 3 January 1937 · page 2

While crowds were flocking to a motion picture theatre in Bexley last night, a billy-goat pushed his way through them rushed past the usher…

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£80 Theatre Robbery

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 2

MELBOURNE, Sunday.--Operating a powerful oxy-acetylene torch, burglars opened a safe at Hoyts picture theatre, in Carnegie, early today, and…

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Fancy Dress Dance At Darling Point

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 8

THE weather was all that could be desired for the fancy dress masked dance given by Captain and Mrs. J. R. Patrick at their lovely harborside…

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Widely Varied Public Taste In Pictures

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 5

MOTION picture popularity depends largely on points of view. Perhaps you love musicals, but are bored by serious drama…

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Youth's Death From Wounds. Windsor Tragedy. Girl Shot After Dance

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 10

Allen Johnston, aged 16, who was found suffering from gunshot wounds at Sackville North, near Windsor, in the early hours of the morning of…

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The Life of Sydney Dance And Dinner Parties: En Route To Races: On Way Home

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 8

AFTER a year spent abroad, Mrs. Claude Terry will arrive in Sydney by the Nieuw Zeeland on Wednesday. She has…

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Plays Piano At Concert In 4 Months' Practice

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 4 January 1937 · page 2

FOUR months ago Claude Moore, 12, of Broken Hill, could not play a note of music. Last night, at the keyboard of a piano at the Far West Camp, he played the accompaniments for 160 children at a community singing concert…

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He Makes Pictures Out Of Anything

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 6

GEORGE FINEY, the Daily Telegraph cartoonist, has opened at David Jones' George Street gallery the most extraordinary show of pictures Sydney has seen…

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Startling Pictures. George Finey's Exhibition. Sur-realist Influence

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 5 January 1937 · page 8

Mr. George Finey, has long been recognised as one of the most unorthodox of local cartoonists. In much of his work there is an over-emphasis, which verges on cruelty. But…

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Lodestar Galleries. Some New Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 8

Miss Stella Scroggle has replaced some of the pictures in her permanent exhibition of Australian art at the Lodestar Galleries, 77 Elizabeth-street. The new exhibits make an…

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Support for New Theatre

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 6

"It is ludicrous that a city of Sydney's size should be practically without theatres," Mr. Leslie Barnett, recently returned from London, said yesterday…

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Cricket Crowd Sings To Band MELBOURNE

The Sun · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 11

A BAND was at the Cricket Ground to-day to play for community singing from 10.30 a.m. to the start of play, and again at the…

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From "Mail" Special Representatives; Third Test Match—action Pictures

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 1

BEACH SPORT Illustrated in this Issue…

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View from Top of Orpheum Theatre, North Sydney, N.S.W.

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 6 January 1937 · page 11

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Dance

Nepean Times · Thursday 7 January 1937 · page 4

The Protestant Alliance Society will hold a dance in the Masonic Hall. Penrith, on Saturday, 9th inst. There will be good music and refreshments…

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