Matinees of "The Mikado," funniest of pieces, are notified for to-day and Wednesday. The cast is very strong on the humorous side, with Charles Walenn, whose career appears in our "Music and Drama" ...
Article : 110 wordsThe conspicuous place that Newington College occupies, not only in our educational system, but in the broader life of the State, was well illustrated by the large and ...
Article : 930 wordsIn the Legislative Council yesterday the debate was resumed on the motion for the second reading of the Profiteeering Prevention Bill. Mr. Garland said he was glad to hear from ...
Article : 644 wordsOn September 5, 1903, Dr. Houison conducted the members of the Historical Society on an excursion to several interesting parts of old Sydney in the neighbourhood ...
Article : 1,025 wordsAt a meeting of the trustees of the Sydney Grammar School, presided over by Mr. Justice Street, chairman of the, board, it was decided to appoint Mr. A. H. S. Lucas as ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 528 wordsIn the early hours of yesterday morning the bill to increase the pay of members of the State Parliament was read a first time in the Legislative Assembly. ...
Article : 457 wordsThere was little over three hours' Play at the Sydney Cricket Ground yesterday in the Sheffield Shield match between New South Wales and South Australia, and when stumps ...
Article : 1,198 wordsThe members of the staff of Mark Foy's, Limited, assited by artistic friends, have organised an attractive concert for Thursday next (8 p.m.), to enable Miss Josie Monaghan to continue her studies at the ...
Article : 42 wordsOn Tuesday, December 14, at Conservatorium Hall, the Royal Sydney Apollo Club will give their Christ, mas concert, when Mr. Alfred Hill will conduct various cheering part-songs suitable to the season. ...
Article : 71 wordsClaire Kummer's amusing comedy "Good Gracious, Annabelle," will reveal Marie Tempest as Annabelle Leigh, whose amazing adventures make this clever American piece so remarkable. Grahame Browne will ...
Article : 100 wordsThe Sydney Choral Society will give a performance of the "Elijah," on Saturday, December 18, when Mr. W. Reginald Gooud will conduct a numerous choir and orchestra in the dramatic choruses of ...
Article : 80 wordsThe last nights of "The Girl in the Taxi," with Alfred Frith to sustain the mirthful character of Pomere[?], the scent manufacturer; George Willoughby as the austere Baron Dameray; Field Fisher as the ...
Article : 85 wordsMr. E. H. Jones will direct a performance of the "Messiah" at the Town Hall on Wednesday, December 22, when a strong chorus and orchestra, with leading artists as soloists, will assist in presenting Handel's ...
Article : 52 wordsAt 2.30 and at 8 to-day "The Girl for the Boy" will continue its merry run at the Tivoli Theatre with Miss Lee White and Clay Smityh as the determined chocolate girl and the equally resistant "boy," who at last ...
Article : 102 wordsMr. Rex de Cairos Rego will direct his annual pupils' concert at King's Hall on Monday, December 13, at 8 p.m., when part-songs in canon-form will be rendered, and Mr. Richard Thew, Miss Essie Milligan, and Mr. ...
Article : 54 wordsThe programme for the farewell concert to be given by Mr. Batti Bernardi at the Conservatorium Hall (7.45) on Wednesday, December 15, prior to his departure for America and Italy in January, will include, in support ...
Article : 69 wordsBernard Shaw's brilliant play, "Getting Married," should prove an attraction stirring to laughter at the Repertory Theatre to-night and on Wednesday evening next, as it is now to Sydney, and will bring forward ...
Article : 66 wordsThe students of Mr. Louis Grist will give a concert af King's Hall on Thursday, December 18, in which Miss Ursula Mason, Mrs. Frank Lynch, Messrs. R. Acheson, Sim Allen. H. Winter, E. Wright, and C. Robins ...
Article : 55 words"Her Luck in London" will be staged by Ben and John Fullers' Dramatic Players at the Grand Opera House this afternoon. It is by Charles Darrell, the author of "When Paris Sleeps," and will be elaborately ...
Article : 61 wordsAt the King's Hall on Saturday, December 18, a humorous and dramatic recital will be given by Miss Gladys M'Intyre, consisting of dramatic and humorous recitations, monologues, and comediettes. Leading ...
Article : 43 wordsNew arrivals at Fullers' Theatre to-day (2.30 and 8) will include Earle and Danilo, in smart repartee; Sumas, novel instrumentalist; and Maggie Foster, violinist. Favourite artists will include Maud Court[?] ...
Article : 63 wordsOn Christmas night, in St. James's Hall, Mr. Brunton Gibb will give an elocutionary entertainment, at which the assisting artists will be Cyril Monk, Lindley Evans, Richard M'Clelland. Miss Ethel Lang, ...
Article : 48 words"Oh, Kitty," a smart musical comedy, with a humorous sports interest, is running at the Playhouse under Mr. Gilbert Burleigh's management. Newly-added dance and choral numbers under Mr. Arthur Frost's ...
Article : 66 wordsThe Lord Mayor (Alderman W. P. Fitzgerald) yesterday criticised the opposition of Sir Allen Taylor to the City Council's Electricity Amendment Bill in the Legislative Council on ...
Article : 158 wordsPatrons of the Crystal Palace and The Strand to-day and next week will see Alice Lake in the "Fewer and Better," Metro.; "Should a Woman Tell," and Barbara Castleton and Sidney Ainsworth in Screenart's ...
Article : 161 wordsThe pupils of Mr. Charles Smythe held their annual recital in the King's Hall on Thursday night, the programme consisting of popular items. Mr. Colin Campbell, who has a pleasing baritone voice, sang "Songs of ...
Article : 112 wordsOn Thursday night in St. James's Hall the pupils of Miss' Laurie Bennett went through a programme which served to show varying stages of progress in the study of elocution as a drawing-room art. Shakespeare was ...
Article : 137 wordsThere will be a matinee to-day at King's Cross, Darlinghurst. The bill for to-night. Monday, and Tuesday is made up of "Don't Ever Marry," and "A Prisoner of the Pines." From Wednesday to Friday ...
Article : 49 wordsThe Select Committee of the Legislative Council on Agriculture met again yesterday. Mr. A. A. Watson, Acting, Director of Soldiers' Settlements, said that to date 5356 ...
Article : 115 wordsCommencing to-day, Clara Kimball Young, in "The Forbidden Woman," and Corrine Griffith in "[?]ah's Candidate," will be the attractions at the Lyceum, Pitt-street. ...
Article : 26 wordsThe new Governor, Sir Matthew Nathan, on arrival this afternoon, was received with unrestrained enthusiasm, which attained its most animated point when he drove along ...
Article : 101 words"Snow in the Desert" and Thomas Meighan in the "Prince Chap," will be shown at the Olympia, Oxford-street. Darlinghurst, to-day, Monday, and Tuesday. Wednesday's change will bring forth "Don't ...
Article : 56 wordsMr. Frank Hutchens, who will now visit his home in New Zealand whilst touring as solo pianist with the State Orchestra, afterwards journeying on to London, where he was a sub-professor at the R.A.M. before ...
Article : 348 wordsAustralasian Films, Limited, announce that they have secured the rights for the pictures of the Associated Film Producers Incorporated, a new body of American producers, previously known to the film ...
Article : 105 wordsThe trial of Reginald Henry Leopold Spurway Smith, charged with feloniously killing Bernard Kennedy Burgess, master of the Victorian fishing ketch. Myrtle Burgess, and ...
Article : 259 wordsIn further allusion to the subject of employment for immigrants, the Rev. A. H. Gribble, the assistant to the Church Social Campaign, contends that no more unskilled ...
Article : 187 wordsCorio, s, for Adelaide, via Newcastle. City of Madrid, s, for South African ports, via Melbourne. ...
Article : 22 wordsProbate has been granted to the will of the late Dr. Laurence Herschel Levi Harris, medical practitioner, formerly of Macquarie-street, who died at Sydney on September 13. ...
Article : 278 wordsTOWNSVILLE (1258m).—Dep: Dec 2, Nikko Maru, J.M.S., for Japan. FLAT-TOP ISLAND (1050m).—Dep: Dec. 3, Cooma, s, for Townsville. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe death of Mr. H. Gyles Turner, formerly manager of the Commercial Bank of Australia, has occurred at his residence at St. Kilda. The deceased was born at ...
Article : 218 wordsThe State Orchestra and Conservatorium Choir, under Mr. Verbrugghen, will give an operatic concert at the Town Hall to-night, including "Flying Dutchman" overture, "Cavalieria," Intermezzo, "Anvil Chorus," ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 153 wordsOnly the fringe of the many problems to be dealt with in regard to the taking over of the former German possessions in the South Pacific has yet been touched. Though the ...
Article : 552 wordsTo-day, at 3 p.m., the first county council meeting of the St. George district will be held in the Rockdale Town Hall. The Minister for Local Government (Mr. Mutch) signed the ...
Article : 168 wordsThe twenty-seventh annual recital or the Lawrence Campbell School will be given in St. James" Hall, this evening at 8, when a bright and attractive programme will include musical monologues, character ...
Article : 77 wordsThe Commissioner of Police, Colonel Lord, when he heard of the sentence which had been imposed upon Trooper Smith, protested to the Attorney-General, and tendered his ...
Article : 78 wordsMr. John Palmer will conduct the Metropolitan Band in the reserve at Dawes Point to-morrow afternoon in a well-selected programme of marches, overtures, and fantasias. ...
Article : 28 wordsA second lecture-recital upon the new process of improving violin tone is announced by Mr. G. de Cairos-Rege. Miss Dagmar Thomson will contribute solos on instruments treated by the method. Cards may ...
Article : 45 wordsSir,—I think your remarks re the above have been very mild, and do not fully state the case. Only about 40 per cent, have been allowed through, and not 50 per cent, as ...
Article : 270 wordsOn Monday evening next, a concert will be given at the Conservatorium Hall, at which the programme will consist entirely of first performances of music by Charpentier. Ireland, M'Ewan, Benjamin, Stravinsky, ...
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Advertising : 228 wordsUp to the present the Rockhampton waterside workers have remained finn in their determination not to give a written guarantee to work the vessels in accordance with the Federal ...
Article : 130 wordsMr. Jack Higgins, a fruit agent, of the firm of Higgins and Bromley, lost his life at the Darling Harbour Goods Yards yesterday through becoming jammed between the buffers ...
Article : 37 wordsMons. Albert Goossens will give a farewell concert at the Conservatorium Hall next Tuesday, when he will sing excerpts from "Dinorah," "[?] Barbiere," and "Hamlet." Mme. Goossers will sing French folk ...
Article : 69 wordsSpeaking yesterday at the missionary exhibition and sale of work at the Town Hall, organised to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Australasian Board of Missions, General ...
Article : 344 wordsLee Sun, a Chinese employed by W. Tong, of Bondi, was driving in a cart along Old South Head-road yesterday, and when nearing a steep incline the harness broke. The horse ...
Article : 95 wordsQueen Alexandra has sent to the Danish Consul. Mr. P. J. Holdenson, the following reply to the loyal address from the Danish community in Australia:—"Please convey to ...
Article : 79 wordsOn Tuesday evening, in the Unitarian Church, the Rev. George Walters will revive memories of the humour and pathos of Tom Hood, the heroic sufferer who faced pain and even death with a smile—and a ...
Article : 39 wordsSignori Balboni and Caclalli, and Count Fillppini will unite in an elaborate concert of Italian opera at the Town Hall on Tuesday next, with a chorus of 60 voices under Mr. William Asprey. The choral ...
Article : 91 wordsForty temporary hands in North Ipswich railway workshops were paid off yesterday, and left the shops carrying their kits of tools. So far as can be ascertained no further ...
Article : 40 wordsDelegates to the fourth interstate conference of Institutes for the "Blind at the Royal Victorian Institute dealt with the effect of the amendment recently made in the invalid ...
Article : 91 wordsAt the Gladys Verona concerts at the Conservatorium Hall next Wednesday and Thursday nights, in aid of a fund to assist that brilliant singer to England, she will render the "Mad Scene" ("Lucia"), "Thou ...
Article : 141 wordsAn "Irish Race Convention," called by the Irish Ireland League of Victoria, is to be held in Melbourne to-day and to-morrow. The patron of the league is Archbishop Mannix, ...
Article : 140 wordsSir,—The investigations into cases of shell-shock and the results of the horrors witnessed by our soldiers during the war when the fundamental instincts of civilised man were ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 152 wordsWe have received from the Law Book Company of Australasia, Limited, a copy of "Campbell's Companies Acts," which they have just published. In this book Mr. ...
Article : 99 wordsAt the King's Hall on Wednesday evening next Miss Eugenie Boland will sing "Like to the Damask Rose" (Elgar), "Voce di donna" (Ponchinelli), "The Uninhabited Island" (German), and Prelude (Berliner). ...
Article : 57 wordsAt 10 o'clock last night a fire broke out in Yet Hing's general store, which by 11 o'clock was completely gutted; also Cruick-shank and Phillip's garage, and E. Pa[?]er's ...
Article : 106 wordsThe Commissioner, Mr. Mitchell, to-day delivered judgment in the insolvency of Frank Roy Flave[?] formorly of REd Hill, fruiterer. The Commissioner severely castigated the ...
Article : 55 wordsThe Minister for Trade and Customs (Mr. Massy Greene) has announced that the Government has decided to remove the embargoes on exports to Germany, Austria, Hungary, ...
Article : 62 wordsOn Thursday evening next Mr. Roy Basil Mackey will give a pianoforte recital at the Town Hall. A programme of classic and romantic pieces will be presented. The plan is at Paling's. ...
Article : 40 wordsFurther investigation at the premises of Burroughs, Welcome, and Co., 481 Kent-street, which were recently visited by thieves on two occasions, reveals the fact that the firm has ...
Article : 39 wordsThe Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney will present "The Messiah" on Saturday next, when Miss Gladys Cole, who, since her sensational debut at the Town Hall has been studying oratorio with Mr. Joseph ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 4 Dec 1920, Page 16
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