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Detailed lists, results, guides : 496 wordsBut the more he thought it over, the more he rejected this explanation. The predominant thought in his mind about Howard Stormont, the country gentleman who played his ...
Article : 293 wordsA famous London playhouse will disappear with the approaching demolition of the Empire Theatre, Leicester-square, now to make way for another of the moving picture ...
Article : 1,409 wordsThe late Arthur Christopher Benson, selections from whose "Diary" have been published under the editorship of Mr. Percy Lubbock, was a man of prodigious energy. His routine ...
Article : 889 wordsThe National Council of Women held its first executive meeting of the year on Thursday. The long summer recess resulted in a lengthy business paper, which was fully ...
Article : 299 wordsMr. Arthur Hockley, "The Man Who Knows." will still be the principal attraction at Fuller's Theatre to-day. Others appearing include Stompy and Stella, Carlton and Rosslyn, Charles Sherman, Laurencec ...
Article : 47 wordsThe grounds of the War Memorial Hospital will be the scene of a floral fete on March 12. It will be opened by the Mayoress of Waverley (Mrs. R. W. Jackaman). ...
Article : 1,093 wordsThe season of Wirth's Circus which opens at the Hippodrome next Thursday will be the forty-seventh this organisation has given in Sydney. The programme has been strengthened by the addition of [?] ...
Article : 35 wordsFrank Neil will head the cast in "The Nervous Wreck," an American farce, which is to be presented at the Grand Opera House next Saturday. ...
Article : 31 wordsMr. Duncan Macdougall will read at the Playbox Theatre, in Rowe-street, to-morrow night, "The "Admirable Bashville." the play which G. B. Shaw adapted from his novel, "Cashel Byron's Profession." ...
Article : 30 wordsA group of "English ayres" of the early seventeenth century appears on the programme of songs to be presented by Miss Nancy Marsden at the Conservatorium next Tuesday night. Miss Margaret ...
Article : 51 wordsNext Saturday at 2.30 the first of this season's matinee concerts by the Conservatorium Orchestra will be held at the Conservatorium Hall. The programme will include the overture to 'Oberon" ...
Article : 52 wordsNarrow fur trims this afternoon frock of heavy silk crepe, and also serves to outline the design in which it is cut. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 26 wordsMiss Gladys Verona will give her first recital since her return from London at the Conservatorium Hall on Monday, March 14. The programme will include arias from "Figaro" (Mozart), "Il Re Pastore" ...
Article : 54 wordsAs a mark of appreciation, of the work of Miss Rita Lancaster (conductor of the Sydney Grand Opera Company) in seeking to establish local grand opera, a number of singers have banded together to give a ...
Article : 80 wordsLydon might not be able to lay claim to any remarkable brilliancy of intellect. At Harrow and Oxford his progress had been steady and respectable, but he had not ...
Article : 1,433 wordsAt the Conservatorium Hall on Wednesday March 16, a vocal recital will be given by Misses Lorna Turner (soprano), Bessie Cooke (contralto), Ruby ZlotKowski (soprano), and Mae Rogers (contralto). ...
Article : 45 words"John Company," by Sir William Foster, is not a history of the East India Company. That would require many volumes to narrate. The author is content to deal with certain ...
Article : 359 wordsUnder the baton of Mr. W. Arundel Orchard, the Conservatorium Orchestra will begin its 1927 season of subscription concerts on Wednesday, March 28. This concert will commemorate the centenary of the death ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 484 wordsNext Friday night there will be a special gala performance of "The Big Parado" at the St. James Theatre. "The Big Parade," a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer film, was directed by King Vidor, and has John ...
Article : 62 wordsThe closing date of "Beau Gest" at the Prince Edward Theatre is still indefinite, though the management is holding "Don Juan" in readiness to replace it. The musical preliminaries to the picture, like ...
Article : 57 wordsWhen the season of "Mademoiselle from Armentieres" has concluded at the Crystal Palace Theatre (no definite date for its closing has yet been announced), its place will be taken by "The Better "Ole," in ...
Article : 53 words"We're in the Navy Now," a Paramount film, featuring Wallace Beery and Raymond Hatton, will be screened to-day at the Haymarket Theatre. Supporting features are "The Campus Flirt," in which Bebe ...
Article : 53 wordsThe Big Four, who will appear at the Lyric Theatre to-day in conjunction with Jimmy Elkins' jazz orchestra, have made themselves extremly popular with Sydney audiences. The films to be shown are ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 1,112 wordsFather Ronald Knox is the chartered jester of the Roman Catholic priesthood. Unlike his Anglican colleague, Dean Inge, he finds in contemporary foibles and eccentricities food ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 138 wordsMrs. Arthur Allen, assisted by Mrs. Ken Austin, arranged two bridge parties yesterday at the Queen's Club, in aid of the funds of Karitane, the Australian Mothercraft Home. ...
Article : 134 wordsMr. Thomas M. Hemy, a brother of C. Napier Hemy, R.A., and himself a painter of distinction, conformed to a family tradition by going to sea before settling down to the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 71 wordsThe R.S.P.C.A. shop, 120 King-street, will be open from to-day until March 22. It is staffed by voluntary lady workers of the society, under the supervision of Miss A. ...
Article : 111 wordsSince it began its run at Her Majesty's Theatre last Thursday week, "Tell Me More" has been judiciously condensed (it did not finish on the first night until nearly half-past 11), and is all the more sparkling in ...
Article : 86 wordsOf the making of anthologies there seems no end, yet the garden of English poetry is so rich in blossom that there is always room for more. Professor Walter Murdoch, of the ...
Article : 145 wordsThe Pixies' Pink Party, in aid of the funds of the Boy Scouts' Ball, was held at the Wentworth yesterday afternoon. The programme included a ballet of wood nymphs ...
Article : 250 wordsThe marriage was celebrated in the Baptist Church, Petersham, on February 22, of Miss Ethel Dorothy Brain, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Brain, of Ashfield, to Mr. ...
Article : 192 words"The Mikado" has been singled out for a longer run than any of the Gilbert and Sullivan opereas hitherto presented at the Theatre Royal. It is entering to-day on its third week. Next Saturday it will give place to ...
Article : 47 wordsRoi Cooper Megrue's clever play "Tea for Three" is proving extremely popular at the Criterion Theatre, and the management has decided to extend its season to the latest possible date compatible with ...
Article : 59 words"Harvest" is a collection of powerful short stories by Mr. Peter Deane. The title is symbolical; the miseries of war do not end with the war itself; there is a grim ...
Article : 237 wordsMatinees of "Sunny," the bright musical comedy at the new Empire Theatre, are being given each Wednesday and Saturday at 2. The evening performances begin at 7.45. ...
Article : 32 wordsRichard Taber, Hale Norcross, Sybil Jane, Maude Carroll, Ellen Hanley, Barry Livesey, Douglas Vigors, Claude Saunders, and Master Bruce Walker are appearing in "Is Zat So?" which is now having a brief ...
Article : 50 wordsThe full programme of Paderewski's first recital in the Town Hall next Saturday night will not be announced until Monday; but in the meantime, Messrs. J. and N. Tait advise that it will include the ...
Article : 78 wordsMiss Jean Nossiter, eldest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. T. B. Nossiter, of Cheltenham, was married on February 23 at St. John's Church, Beecroft, to Mr. M. Cleveland Pines, ...
Article : 200 wordsThe executive committee of Girls' Week gave a luncheon party at the Hotel Australia yesterday to lending business men, to interest them in Girls' Week, which will be held from ...
Article : 166 wordsMr. Arthur Stigant is principal comedian in "Hullo, Healo," which is having so successful a season at the Palace Theatre. The revue enters on its fourth week to-day. ...
Article : 32 wordsIn response to numerous requests, Miss Nellie Bramley has decided to devote the last week of her season at the Grand Opera House to a revival of "Peg o' My Heart." The play will he presented at ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 88 wordsAt the Palace Theatre on March 26 the Repertory Theatre Society is to present, for the first time in Sydney, Cicely Hamilton's three-act comedy. "The Old Adam." ...
Article : 30 words"The Lonely Island," by Mrs. Rose A. Rogers, is an account at Tristan Da Cunha, which is the home of perhaps the most isolated community in the world. The members ...
Article : 406 wordsAt the Tivoli Theatre to-day Frederick Sylvester and his nephews will appear for the first time in Australia, and the Kwong Sing Wah Chinese troupe will conclude its season here. Monday's chance of programme will ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 5 Mar 1927, Page 10
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