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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937

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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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Band Championships

The Daily Telegraph · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 12

Twenty-seven entries have been received for the 34th annual New South Wales Band Championships, which will be held from January 27 to…

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Big Band Contest

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 8

The annual City of Sydney Interstate Band contests will open at the Sports Ground on January 27. The contests will be the forerunner of the…

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Interstate Band Contests

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

The annual City of Sydney interstate band contests will begin on the Sydney Sports Ground on January 27. These contests will be the forerunner of the Australian band…

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£70 Cheque From Ball

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 18

Canon Hammond receiving a cheque for £70 12s, the proced[?] of the Master Bakers' Association ball, from the president (Mr. William White). Standing at the back are the secretary (Mr. J. Israel) and the ball organiser (Mr. A. F. Kirkland)…

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Boys' Band Will Open Soon at the Prince Edward

The Labor Daily · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 4

Commencing its fourth week at the Prince Edward Theatre, the Paramount drama, "The General Died at Dawn," shows little sign of that…

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Giants of the Dance in Germany. The Strange Technique of Mary Wigmann. (Written for the Women's Supplement by Kathleen Monypenny.) Berlin, July 29

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 7

THE father of dancing in Germany is Herr Rudolf von Laban. It is his genius that has clarified its technique, although the honour of being its first dancer and producer belongs to Mary Wigmann. Harald Kreutzberg is the most important of the artists. He is a small man with a narrow, egg-shaped head, which is…

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Concerted Move for Freer Trade London

The Sun · Tuesday 12 January 1937 · page 1

THE Premier of Holland, Dr. Colijn, has started a movement for the lowering of trade barriers. He suggests that representatives of Holland, Belgium, Luxemburg, Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Finland should…

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HARVEST PICTURES—The BALLET—CRICKET

Sydney Mail · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 1

The New Year has opened well for the farmers—a good harvest and high prices. This picture shows an H.S.T. 10-feet header in a 30-bushel crop at Tocumwal, New South Wales…

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Boys' Band To March Through City

The Sun · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 16

The Adelaide Boys' Band. of 200 performers, will arrive here to-morrow. The band Will be met on arrival…

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Amusements. the Mayfair Theatre

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 9

Mr. L. S. snider (managing director of Snider and Dean Theatres, Ltd.) announces the signing of new contracts with Associated Distributors, Ltd., Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and Paramount for the…

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Sparrow Killed by Golf Ball

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 17

A sparrow was killed at the Lithgow gol[?] course in unusual circumstances, Appronching the first hole, G. H. Geavside drove a ball, striking the sparrow, which hnd risen from the…

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European Concert

The Australian Worker · Wednesday 13 January 1937 · page 15

in the service of European culture and civilisation. —Nazi Press Chief on the German-Japanese Pact…

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Brotherhood Dance

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 5

An old time dance was held in the School of Arts Hair, Wentworthville, on Saturday, by the United Brotherhood, and proved a great success. The monte…

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Sydney Band Contest

The Propeller · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 4

The Sydney Inter-State Band Contest will commence at the Sports Ground on January 27, total cash prizes amounting to £440. The…

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Hospital Ball

Nepean Times · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 4

It has been decided that the annual ball in aid of the Nepean District Hospital be held in the Dungowan Theatre on 22nd June…

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Adelaide Boys' Band Arriving

The Daily Telegraph · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 16

THE Adelaide Boys' Band, of 200 performers, arrives in Sydney at 9.10 a.m. today, and will parade from the station to the Domain, via Castlereagh…

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Longest Kiss In Pictures

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

THE longest movie kiss on record since silent pictures osculated, its way through 5400 frames of celluloid film when Spencer Tracy met…

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Castle Hill Theatre

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 4

"Roberts," featuring Irene Dunne, Fred Astaire, and Ginger Rogers, will be screened at the Castle Hill Theatre on Saturday. The supporting attraction…

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Salvation Army Band. Protest by Shopkeepers

The Propeller · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 1

A complaint was received at the last meeting of Hurstville Council from tenants in the council's shops in Forest Road, opposite the Power…

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