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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1939

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Leger and Post Pictures For Tatt's Cup Day Approaching the Leger-hurdle Race, about 1 Mile 5 Furs

Sydney Sportsman · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 9

FINISH—HURDLE RACE, about 1 Mile 5 Furs. APPROACHING THE LEGER—NEW YEAR'S GIFT, 7 Furs. FINISH—NEW YEAR'S GIFT, 7 Furs. APPROACHING THE LEGER—NURSERY HANDICAP, 5 1/2 Furs…

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Scots Concert. Enthusiastic Scenes. Town Hall Crowded

The Sydney Morning Herald · Tuesday 3 January 1939 · page 11

Enthusiastic scenes marked Scotland's National Song Festival in the Sydney Town Hall last night, under the auspices of the Highland Society of…

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Toy Time and the Band. Noise Through Amplifiers. Not Racecourse Band

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 6

It was not the Randwick, racecourse band's selections which annoyed Toy Time on Saturday last, but band music which came through the amplifiers at Randwick…

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Daily News In Pictures

Daily News · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 2

BAR-ROOM BARON: Charles Walker, oldest customer of a Surry Hills hotel, was honored with a "knighthood" yesterday. GIRL SANTA CLAUS: Miss Rosemary Lees leaving Heston with a plane-load of Christmas gifts for Czechs in refugee camps…

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Radio, Not Band, Upset Toy Time

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 15

It was not the noise of the band at Randwick that upset Toy Time on Monday and caused his owner-trainer (R. Skelton) to scratch her…

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Hit By Golf Ball; May Lose Sight

The Daily Telegraph · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 7

WOLLONGONG, Tuesday. -- While playing golf yesterday William George Wilson, 39, of Lindfield, Sydney, was struck in the left eye, by a ball driven…

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Pictures Televised From London to New York. (British Official Wireless.) LONDON, Jan. 3

The Sydney Morning Herald · Wednesday 4 January 1939 · page 14

A remarkable record has been established for television. During a series of tests at Riverhead receiving station of the Radio Corporation of America, on Long Island. New…

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Film News of the Week. Jim Davidson's Band for State Theatre. a Dance Band Is a Specialised Business. "Light Entertainment Unit."

The Sydney Morning Herald · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 25

Jim" Davidson, whose A.B.C. dance band will" begin a season on the stage of the State Theatre on January 20, says that his group of 24 musicians should really be called a "light entertainment unit," because although music is played in the popular idiom, the accent is on…

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Band Recital

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 5

The Parramatta Citizens' Band will play the following programme of music in the band rotunda, Parramatta Park, on Sunday afternoon, commencing at 3…

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Annual Scottish Dance

Liverpool News · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 2

Organised by Mrs. Halliday, the annual Scottish revel held in the Hammondville Progress Hall last Saturday night was a great success, over 120…

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Football Presentation Dance

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 6

The Blacktown Rugby League Football Club is holding a dance in the School of Arts, Blacktown, on Friday 13th inst., when the blazers for the…

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New Year's Eve Dance

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4
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There was a big night at the Log House on Saturday, when a supper dance was held, and was well catered for by Mr and Mrs Hay. About 250…

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Daily News In Pictures

Daily News · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 3

HUNGRY AS A HUNTER, Neil McIntosh, of the 2nd Sunshine Troop, Victoria, enjoys his mid-day meal in the open at Bradfield. FOOD CAMOUFLAGE: Dockers load cases marked soap, which are part of a secret shipment of clothing and food for the women and…

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With Racket and Ball

Referee · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 19

JUNIOR REGAINS PRESTIGE W. SIDWELL, one of the most promising boys in Australia, has been in the tennis doldrums for the…

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Saturday Night's Big Dance Session

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 4

Tune in to 2UE every Saturday night at 10.30 for the big weekly dance feature, "You Can't Make Your Feet Behave—Dance!" This session is…

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First Dance Diggers' Younger Set

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 9

The newly-formed Younger Set of the Merrylands R.S. and S.I.L.A. sub-branch held its first dance last Wednesday evening in the Merrylands Masonic Hall. The…

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Hospital Movement Dance at Chipping Norton

Liverpool News · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 1

The dance held at Chipping Norton Hall on New Year's Eve by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the proposed Liverpool general hospital (Moorebank and Chipping…

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Did "The Lambeth" Lamb at Guildford Dance

The Cumberland Argus and Fruitgrowers Advocate · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 9

Abandoning Parliamentary dignity in favor of gay revelry among his electoral fleck. Ald. W. H. Lamb, M.L.A., was one of the many entranced by the popular…

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Nepean Theatre Talkies "Little Miss Broadway"

Nepean Times · Thursday 5 January 1939 · page 8

Shirley Temple's latest "Little Miss Broadway," is to screen at the Nepean this Friday, Saturday, and Monday, January 6, 7, and 9. George Murphy,…

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