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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1937

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Nepean Theatre Talkies Popular Night

Nepean Times · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 8

"The Case of the Black Cat," starring Ricardo Cortez and June Travis, is the main feature on this Friday's popular night programme at the…

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Did Not Register Supper Dance Entertainments Tax Act Infringed

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 30

Marie Moureaux was fined £2 at the Central Police Court to-day for having failed to register, under the Entertainments Tax Act, a supper…

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Roll Calls and the Roll of Drums: Boys' Band Is Here

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 16

OFFICIALS of the Adelaide Drum and Fife Band are proud, of their achievement. They have transported 216 adventure-hungry juveniles half way across the continent without losing one of them. "And, if you don't think that's an achievement, you are welcome to take my job on the…

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Band Arrives To-day 200 Boys To Play At The Prince Edward

The Labor Daily · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 10

RECOGNISED as the largest of its kind in the world, the Adelaide Boys' Band, of 200 performers, will arrive to-day at 9.10 a.m. They are…

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Free Library. Alderman Harding s Plan. Theatre and Museum Included

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 17

The backwardness of Sydney in the provision of free libraries has often been empha[?]ised recently. Thanks to the Free Library Movement attention has been focussed upon…

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News of the Theatre Roxy News "The Prisoner of Shark Island."

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

"If you want something that's sincere in the way of motion picture acting, something which shows a brilliant character artist to every possible advantage,…

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Layer of Air at White Heat Giant Band Found 120 Miles Above Earth Auckland

The Sun · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 16

A LAYER of air, of a temperature of more than 1000 degrees centigrade, has been found 120 miles above the earth. It was equivalent to being at white heat, Dr…

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CRICKET. S.J.C.A. (A Grade) v. State Theatre Premiers Defeated

The Hebrew Standard of Australasia · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 7

S.J.C.A. who had one wicket for 70 resumed play against the State Theatre and Jack Samuels who carried his score to 51 was soon out, being bowled by G…

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Concert for Widow Diggers Rally Round

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

Having obtained the full support, of other local organisations, the Wentworthville sub-branch of the R.S..S.I.L.A. has arranged to hold a concert on Febraury…

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Concert Afternoon Teas

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 14 January 1937 · page 20

AN innovation in the form of concert teas in the afternoon will be inaugurated by the Hotel Australia, following Continental and American…

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Mr. Finey's Pictures

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 4

Mr. George Finey's exhibition of pictures has been drawing a particularly large attendance at David Jones's George-street Gallery. This evening, at 7.30, Mr. Finey will lecture…

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A Fine Boys' Band

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 7

The Adelaide Boys' Band, of some 200 performers, arrived in Sydney yesterday to make their appearance at the Prince Edward Theatre on Saturday. Here they are seen marching in the Domain on their way to the Town Hall. They will pay a visit…

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Adelaide Boys' Band. March Through City

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

The red uniforms worn by the boys of the Adelaide Drum and Fife Band made a bright splash of colour in the city yesterday, when the visitors marched from the Domain to the…

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Well-known Band May Be Broken Up

The Daily Telegraph · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 15

GOULBURN, Thursday.--Members of the Australian Light Horse Band, established in 1898, are incensed at the act of the Defence Department in…

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Govt. Ultimatum Forces Band Out Goulburn

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 12

Owing to the Federal Government's ultimatum, that all instruments held on loan from the Defence Department must be returned, the…

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You Ought to Be in Pictures

The St George Call · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 6

The implications of the once popular song, “You Ought to be in Pictures,” have many a true-life analogy in Hollywood. “You ought to lie in pictures,' many…

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Vest-Pocket Band Arrives 216 Boys From Adelaide March in City

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 6

LIKE vest-pocket editions of Grenadier Guardsmen in their smart uniforms of gold and yellow, the 216 youngsters forming…

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David and Goliath of the Air — Adelaide Boys' Band in Sydney — Speedway Cyclists Prepare for Test

The Sydney Morning Herald · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 14

The DC2 Douglas, which reached Sydney on Wednesday on a special flight, dwarfs the Aeronca—one of the smallest machines made. The Aeronca has a 38 h.p. motor and is said to travel 33 miles on one gallon of petrol. Inset: The Aeronca in flight…

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Crisis in British Pictures Australia In No way Affected, Declares Stuart Doyle Facts of Case

The Labor Daily · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 8

MR. STUART DOYLE, managing director of British Empire Films Ltd., issued a statement yesterday regarding the crisis in the British…

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Many Parties For Officers of H.M.S. Danae Dance on the Canberra Admiral Entertains To-night Car Excursions

The Sun · Friday 15 January 1937 · page 13

OFFICERS of H.M.S. Danae would like twice as long in port, and twice as many officers (according to…

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