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Pictures, dances & concerts, 1958

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La seconde saison du Theatre des Nations

Le Courrier Australien · Friday 14 March 1958 · page 8

L sera inaugurée Sarah-Bernhardt, successivement…

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Viennese Theatre: Return Season of “Das Steckenpferd”

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 14 March 1958 · page 4

The “Kleines Wiener Theater,” a German language amateur revue company has had another…

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Art, Theatre & Music Review Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 14 March 1958 · page 5

Throughout this topheavy drama, now drawing gasps at the Independent Theatre, your critic was…

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Dance Week

Tribune · Wednesday 19 March 1958 · page 8

SYDNEY: A program of Dancing Championships will take place throughout NSW halls and studios during May 12-19 for selection of…

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Scene at Dance Curfew Sought by Council

The Biz · Wednesday 19 March 1958 · page 29

Fairfield Council at its last meeting decided to ask the Premier (Mr. Cahill) for more police protection in Cabramatta and…

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Arthur Miller Play at New Theatre

Tribune · Wednesday 19 March 1958 · page 8

SYDNEY: The Crucible, by brilliant American playwright, Arthur Miller, which is generally regarded as one of the finest post-war American…

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Catholic Ball

Nepean Times · Thursday 20 March 1958 · page 4

The annual Catholic debutante ball will be held in Log Cabin, Penrith, on Friday night, May 23. Full…

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Largest Committee for Independence Ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 8

One of the largest communal Committees eVer formed in Sydney met last week to organise the 10th Anniversary Independence Day Ball to be held at thfe Trocadero on April 23…

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Record as Novel Ball Ticket

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 8

Dr. F. Reading, president of the 10th Anniversary Israel Independence Day Ball Committee, announced this week that this year’s hall ticket would be an artistic souvenir of a great occasion…

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Art, Theatre & Music Reviews Michael Shannon

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 8

It is a brave young painter who today ignores the swing towards abstract expressionism (paintings…

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Controversial Drama the “Broadside” Aganist Theatre Apathy

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 6

Noel Madison, son of the famous Russian-born Yiddish actor Maurice Moscovitch (who was perhaps Australia's greatest Shylock…

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Onsportieve Turken onthaald op fluit en joel concert

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 21 March 1958 · page 12

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New Theatre makes great success of Miller's The Crucible

Tribune · Wednesday 26 March 1958 · page 11

Arthur Miller's The Crucible, which opened at Sydney New Theatre last Saturday night, is one of the most significant works of art of our era. SET in Salem, Massachussets in…

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Canley Heights Has Own Theatre "Orion" Opens Next Monday Night

The Biz · Wednesday 26 March 1958 · page 22

An eleven-year fight with the Film Board and vested fllm interests has ended for Mr. Fred Hawkins. On Monday night…

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Sacred Concert

The Cumberland Argus · Wednesday 26 March 1958 · page 7

Parramatta Baptist Church Choir, under Mr. Allan Colledge, will present a sacred concert in…

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Visiting Band

Nepean Times · Thursday 27 March 1958 · page 7

The Christian Israelite Church Band (about 20 players), of Singleton, propose to visit Penrith on Saturday night next—…

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Montefiore Home Ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 28 March 1958 · page 8

Ball: Intending debutantes ring Mrs. I. Silk (FM4096) or Mrs. E. M. Lesnie. (FM4470). Rehearsals soon…

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Art, Theatre & Music Review I Accuse

The Australian Jewish Times · Friday 28 March 1958 · page 9

Showing at the St. James and suburbs, this film produced by Jose Ferrer, swings through…

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Australian National Junior Dance Club Fairfield

The Biz · Wednesday 2 April 1958 · page 1

An invitation is extended to all people of Fairfield to join us this Thursday evening in viewing the Junior T.V. Dance Club…

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Canley Heights Theatre Opens "Orion" Has Premiere

The Biz · Wednesday 2 April 1958 · page 22

The new theatre at Canley Heights, "The Orion," had its premiere showing last Monday night, when a near-crowded…

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