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Sydney · Pictures, dances & concerts

Pictures, dances & concerts, 1980

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Israel’s Tennis Ball Bureaucracy

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 3 January 1980 · page 16

Australian tennis coach, Ron Steele, who is looking after Israel’s Davis Cup training and…

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Theatre American Nightmare

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 17 January 1980 · page 18

What extent of rationalisation — (devotion to family, the great “American dream” of…

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Tennis title “lost” without hitting ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 January 1980 · page 19

Maccabi Tennis Club singles champion, Mike Sternberg lost his title last Sunday without hitting a ball. Sternberg did not arrive…

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Return of a pioneer actress Recalls early days of Independent Theatre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 January 1980 · page 15

In the early days of Sydney’s Independent Theatre, during the 1930s and 1940s, a young Jewish actress Marie Rosenfeld was wellknown to theatre audiences…

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Tintner Coming for Abc Concert Tours

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 24 January 1980 · page 6

Georg Tintner returns to Sydney this week to conduct two Beethoven concerts for the ABC as part of the Festival of Sydney. A slim man, with an…

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“Paper Chase” star for Sydney theatre season

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 31 January 1980 · page 13

John Houseman, at the age of 77, has become a new showbusiness sensation as the star of television’s most intelligent new series “The Paper Chase” in which he plays the main role of…

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THEATRE Young Americans

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 14 February 1980 · page 13

The Acting Company from New York is no doubt a good indication of young talent in the United States, but their brief Sydney season is only a promise of better things to come, no…

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Nederlandse musici geven concerten in Australie

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 15 February 1980 · page 2

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Bromberg Sydney concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 28 February 1980 · page 19

The David Bromberg trio will appear at Sydney’s Paris Theatre on March 2. Born in Philadelphia, 1945, Bromberg was…

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Film and Theatre Seymour Student Theatre Paul Jacobs and the Nuclear Gang

Tharunka · Monday 3 March 1980 · page 6

The early American Atomic Bomb tests were conducted in the Nevada Desert, a mere seventy five miles from a small farming town. After one bomb test,…

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Theatre a Case of the Trots

Tharunka · Monday 3 March 1980 · page 7

TRAITORS by Stephen Sewell Downstairs Nimrod from 20th February. A Stalinist officer falls in love with a Trotskyist between the year of 1926 and…

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Orchestra Tour Now to Israel

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 March 1980 · page 8

LONDON: The English Chamber Orchestra, one of Britain’s finest ensembles, is to give a number of concerts in Israel following its decision to cancel a trip to Russia. The cancellation decision…

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Annual Ball

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 March 1980 · page 18

Tickets are still available for the Illawara Synagogue’s annual ball in the shule hall on March 8…

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Theatre Thousand Voices

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 March 1980 · page 15

Craig Russell, currently appearing at the Theatre Royal, is an artist or a thousand voices. He impersonates Elvis Presley and almost all the…

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Youth Scene Youth Minyan to “dance” new Sefer Torah to centre

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 6 March 1980 · page 17

The Youth Minyan Lekeruv Levavot will celebrate the completion of its Sefer Torah with a festive lunch and party on March 9. The party will be at the…

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Concertgebouworkest niet meer naar Sowjet Unie

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 7 March 1980 · page 5

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New Theatre's Brown Pelican

Tribune · Wednesday 12 March 1980 · page 10

Wild beasts of the jungle give evidence in a not-so-crazy trial in Brown Pelican, the New Theatre's latest production. There is a kangaroo court with a real kangaroo, lots of fun and lots of laughs. George Sklar the USA author of Brown Pelican has…

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Dance Pupils

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 March 1980 · page 19

Masada College pupil Brenda Rosenfeld (right), of Lindfield, with Diana [?]ibson, of Bondi, both highly successful candidates in their recent Royal Academy of Dancing examinations. They are students at the Paul Vlasic Academy of Dancing, Lindfield, where classes include classical ballet,…

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Concert

The Australian Jewish Times · Thursday 13 March 1980 · page 27

Werner Baer will appear in a free lunchtime concert, organised by the Sydney Opera House Trust on…

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Neerlandia club in Sydney had geslaagde dinner dance avond

Dutch Australian Weekly · Friday 14 March 1980 · page 2

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