In his foreword to "Antarctica" Mr. V. Gordon Hayes quotes a resolution adopted by the Sixth International Geographical Congress in 1895. "The exploration of the Antarctic ...
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Article : 859 wordsThe following pass list from the practical examinations held in June, 1928, has been forwarded to us by the organising secretary, Mr. S. Chudleigh. The teachers' diploma passes will be published when the ...
Article : 2,850 wordsThe Real Estate business of Sydney and suburbs is still quiet, and this week very little was doing. The inquiries were fairly numerous, the indoor auctions were largely ...
Article : 1,474 words"Aida," which is to begin the Williamson-Melba opera season to-night, was Verdi's answer to the critics who asserted that his powers of invention had ceased. This was ...
Article : 1,589 wordsA concert organised by Miss B[?] Harcourt for the building fund of the N.S.W. Institution for the Deaf, Dumb, and Blind will take place at the King's Hall on Thursday, July 12. Included among the ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Metropolitan Band, conducted by Mr. John Palmer, will play in the Botanic Gardens R[?]tund[?] to-morrow, at 3 o'clock. ...
Article : 21 words"The King of Kings" is now in the last weeks of its season at the Prince Edward Theatre. The next attraction will be "Sunrise," in which George O'Brieu and Janet Gaynor play the principal parts. ...
Article : 41 words"The Gaucho" is entering on the last week of its season at the Regent Theatre. Next Friday this colourful romance of South America, in which Douglas Fairbanks plays the principal part, will be withdrawn, ...
Article : 50 wordsAt the Capitol Theatre to-day the programme comprises "The Private Life of Helen of Troy," a new First National film, in which Lewis Stone, Maria C[?]da, and Ricardo Cortez, take part, and "Chinatown ...
Article : 54 wordsPreceded by a bright entertainment entitled "Plantation Days," "Uncle Tom's Cabin" still enjoys a successful season at the Crystal Palace Theatre. It will be followed in due course by "The Dove," in ...
Article : 39 wordsAt the urgent insistence of his friends Mr. Paul P. Harris, the founder of the Rotary movement, has written an account of a career which has been far more eventful than that of ...
Article : 428 words"Life's Circus," a new Continental film to be screened at the Haymarket Theatre to-day, departs agreeably from the beaten track. It will be supported by "The Shield of Honour," a Universal film ...
Article : 48 wordsTo-day's Programme at the Lyceum and lyric Theatres is headed by "The Ghost Train," an a[?]aptation of the stage play that caused so much interest in Sydney recently. Viola Dana and Ralph Graves ...
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Article : 730 wordsArangi Lombardi and Francesco Merli, who will appear for the first time in Sydney tonight in Verdi's "Aida," have not only often sang together before coming to Australia, ...
Article : 817 wordsShura Cherkassky will give this evening the fourth of the series of recitals in which he is delighting audiences at the Town Hall. His programme on this occasion will include the "Moonlight" Sonata, ...
Article : 81 words"Borneo and Juliet" will be revived by Mr. Allan Wilkie at the Newtown Majestic this afternoon, and will be repeated in the evening. "Antony and Cleopatra" is announced for Monday and Tuesday ...
Article : 60 words"Our Betters," Somerset Maugham's comedy, is the present attraction at the Criterion Theatre, with Miss Margaret Bannerman as Lady George Grayston. This p[?]ce will conclude its run on July 20, as "S[?]xes ...
Article : 61 wordsMr. Leon Gordon and Miss May Collins are playing the leading roles in "Scandal" at the Theatre Royal, where matinees will be given to-day and on Wednesday. The season will close on July 19, and the ...
Article : 47 wordsMr. Maurice Moscovitch and his company are [?] return to the Theatre Royal on July 21, in the first Australian production of "The Silent House." In this play, Mr, Moscovitch will appeal in the ...
Article : 45 wordsMiss Muriel Starr, now concluding a successlul season at the Palace Theatre, will revive at to-day's matinee, and for the last six nights, Bayard Veiller's "Within the Law," in which she will again appear as ...
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Article : 386 wordsMr. Percy Hutchison, with a new company, will begin a season at the Palace Theatre on Saturday evening next, in "The Laughing Optimist." The plans will be opened at nicholson's on Monday. ...
Article : 35 words"Rio Rita" ga[?]ly continues its prosperous career at the St. James Theatre, where Miss Gladys Moncrieff and a well-equipped supporting cast retain their popularity with crowded audiences. Matinees ...
Article : 39 wordsA new season of drama organised by Mr. William Anderson will begin to-day at the matinee at the Grand Opera House with the play "When London Sleeps." ...
Article : 30 words"Top Hole" is interesting large audiences at the Grand Opera House, where this musical comedy is performed by a cast headed by Miss Audrey Lewis and Mr. Van Lowe. Matinees are given on Thursdays ...
Article : 41 wordsThe season of De Koven's tuneful opera "Robin Hood" at the Conservatorium, under the direction of Miss Rita Lancaster, will conclude this evening. Miss Gwen Selva, Miss Gladys Verona, and Messrs. Bryson ...
Article : 44 wordsThe fourth subscription concert of the Conservatorium string quartet—Mr. Gerald Walenn, Miss Marjorie Hinley, and Messrs. Lionel Lawson and Gladstone Bell—will take place on Wednesday evening next. ...
Article : 70 wordsFour Boon Fellows, Brown, price 7/6; John Bunyan, Harrison, price [?]/; The Beast with five Fingers, Harvey, price 7/[?]. (Dent and Sons.) Science and Ethics, Haldane. (Watts and Co., price ...
Article : 223 wordsAt the Conservatorium on Thursday night, Mr. Roland Foster lectured on Puccini's opera "Turandot." Just as Verdi in his later works responded to the influence of Wagner, Puccini, ...
Article : 141 wordsThe London Revue Company, including Miss Janice Hart, Messrs. Frank O'Brian, and Bert Lee, and other artists and Vasco's 'Varsity Boys' Jazz Band, will commence a season to-day at Fuller's Theatre, ...
Article : 44 words"The Fanatics" will be again performed at the Playbox on Wednesday by Mr. Duncan Macdougall and his company. ...
Article : 20 wordsA vocal recital will be given at the conservatorium on Monday evening by Miss Gwladys Evans, with Miss Maysie Reid (pianist), Signor Guide Cacia[?] ([?]ass), and Mr. Gladstone Bell ('cellist), as ...
Article : 64 wordsThe theory of a Lost Continent once inhabited by a highly civilised people, and submerged by some cataclysm, has had exponents from very early times. Plato's ...
Article : 311 wordsThe Loyal Orange Institution's Twelfth of July concert and demonstration will take place at the Town Hall on Monday evening. Several well-known artists will take part in the musical programme. ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 7 Jul 1928, Page 10
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