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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937

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The Independent Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 12

"Indoor Fireworks," a comedy by Arthur McCrae, will open the 1937 season at the Savoy Theatre to-night at 8.15. Molly Brown will appear as "Christina Barry." The cast will also include Leal…

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Repertory Theatre Players

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 12

"Morning, Noon, and Night" is the title of the production for the first half of the performance by the Australian Repertory Players at Leigh House. Castlereagh-street, on January 26. A musical…

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Salvation Army Band. Protests at Hurstville

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 23

Several Hurstville shopkeepers have complained to the Hurstville Council against the noise caused by the Salvation Army band playing outside their premises on Friday…

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Theatre of the Air

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 12

From 2GB to-morrow night, at 8.45, the Theatre of the Air will present "Mutiny in the Family," a drama of an industrial strike…

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Modern Farce at Savoy Theatre

The Sun · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 2

The Independent Theatre, under the direction of Doris Fitton. will commence Its 1937 season with a farce comedy by Arthur Macrae, "Indoor…

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Miller Hit A Four Off First Ball

The Sun · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 7

After several inspections of the wicket, Northern District took the field against Western Suburbs at Waitara, with a supply of saw-dust,…

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Amusements. Theatre Royal—monte Carlo Russian Ballet

The Sydney Morning Herald · Saturday 9 January 1937 · page 12

To-night, at the Theatre Royal. J. C. Williamson, Ltd., will present Colonel W. de Basll's Monte Carlo Russian Ballet in the third programme of the successful season. The ballets to be presented…

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Adelaide Boys' Band

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 14

Adelaide has something to be really proud of in the Adelaide Boys' Drum and Fife Bund, consisting of 200 young performers, who are booked for one week's exclusive…

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For Prince Edward Theatre

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 11

The saxophone section of the Adelaide Boys Band of 200 performers which will appear at the Prince Edward Theatre on January 16…

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Bib and Bub Words and Pictures

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 4

"This Clean-up Week," said Mrs. Bear, "Is a very good notion, I declare." While Mr. Bear was out next day, Mrs. Bear took his old things away…

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Boys! Cut These Pictures Out Yourselves For Your Album

The Sun · Sunday 10 January 1937 · page 8

N.S.W. Fruit Flier. Cheltenham Flier…

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Adelaide Boys' Band

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 4

The conductor of the Adelaide Boys' Drum and Fife Band (Mr. J. E. Becker) has supplied a programme of the band's activities during its visit to Sydney. It will arrive next…

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Dance Funds Stolen

The Daily Telegraph · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

MELBOURNE, Sunday. -- Leaning over a counter at Exhibition Building in the city last night, a man took a suitcase containing £90, the proceeds…

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Cannon's Cannon-ball

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 2

L. Cannon, one of seven brothers from Forbes, who is playing in the men's individual title events, at the Country Tennis Carnival…

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Air Conditioning in Theatre

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 5

The King's Theatre, Balmain, was built six months ago, the Australian Gas Light Company installing a heating system which added to the comfort of patrons. An…

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"Indoor Fireworks." Independent Theatre Comedy

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 4

After "Awake and Sing," the Independent Theatre's latest production, "Indoor Fireworks," is tenuous, if amiable stuff. It is a tour-de-force of emptiness, lit with flashes…

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Folk Dance in Aluminium Modernising Aged Themes

The Labor Daily · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 6

Steps and themes which go back to the dawn of civilisation fitted into the pattern of the nineteen-thirties, and danced in futuristic costumes…

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TELEVISION. Filing of Pictures for Further Use

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 6

One of the biggest problems the British Broadcasting Corporation has to face is the high cost of good television programmes. By means of the new Baird Intermediate…

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New X-ray Camera. Fifty Pictures a Second

The Sydney Morning Herald · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 6

A new form of X-ray cinema camera, which will allow longer lengths of film to be taken without danger to the patient, was shown at the tenth annual Congress and Exhibition of…

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Police Seized Pictures Fines For 26 After Club Raid

The Sun · Monday 11 January 1937 · page 10

"Pictures and notices seized, and the club itself showed that the people found there could not have had much regard for themselves." said…

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