The first Sydney production of the musical play "Show Boat" will take place to-night, at Her Majesty's. This piece is said to have an interesting story, based by Oscar Hammerstein, jun., on a ...
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Article : 1,432 wordsFather C. C. Martindale, S.J., visited Australia on the occasion of the Eucharistie Congress, and his experiences are recorded in "The Risen Sun." The book is dedicated ...
Article : 658 wordsSeveral visitors, guests of the University authorities, heard the carillon programme of Czechoslovakian music on Monday, and were greatly impressed by the clarity of the bells, ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 970 wordsFor the first time in the history of recorded music two of the world's greatest artists have combined their efforts in playing a favourite chamber music work. We refer to the Grieg ...
Article : 792 wordsThe third of the series of old English comedies announced by Mr. Allan Wilkie for his present season at the Newtown Majestic, Sheridan's "The Rivals," will be produced at to-day's matinee, the ...
Article : 77 words"Lombardi, Ltd." retains undiminished popularity at the Criterion Theatre, where Mr. Leo Carrillo, in his clever study of the Italian dress designer, is well supported by an able company. There ...
Article : 37 wordsTwo performances are given daily at the Palace, where J. C. Williamson's World's Entertainers are winning high favour. To-day Miss Ann Penn, the English impersonator, will join the company. ...
Article : 43 wordsA further change of programme to-day at the Grand Opera House is announced. The Veterans of variety and a number of new performers share interest in this bill, and the entertainment is ...
Article : 39 wordsMr. Frank O'Brian's Revellers, who head the programme at Fullers' Theatre, will appear to-day and this evening in a new revue, "Going to the Dogs." ...
Article : 28 wordsBizet's opera "Carmen" will be performed to-night, at the Conservatorium, by members of the Sydney Grand Opera Company, conducted by Miss Rita Lancaster. This will be the first of three ...
Article : 75 words"The Touch of Silk" will be again played at the Turret Theatre, North Sydney, this evening. In the afternoon, there will be a programme of children's plays, including "The Toy Ballet" and "The ...
Article : 50 wordsMr. J. R. Kinghorn is an authority on reptiles, and his "Snakes of Australia" is a mine of interesting information. We learn that there are over 9000 known species of snakes in the ...
Article : 424 words"A Day with a Noah's Ark Family" will be the feature of the children's matinee at the Theatre of Youth, Young-street, this afternoon. The entertaining "Courts and Courtships" will be performed ...
Article : 38 wordsA Wagnerian concert will be given by the Royal Philharmonic Society on Wednesday, November 13, when Madame Joy McArden will make her first appearance in Sydney. ...
Article : 30 wordsThe annual eisteddfod of the Railway and Tramway Department will be opened this evening, at 7.45 o'clock, at the Railway and Tramway Institute, by Mr. Stevens, Minister for Railways. There ...
Article : 58 wordsTo-night, at St. James's Hall, "The Vagabonds" will open a three nights' season of Jevan Brandon Thomas' three-act comedy, "Passing Brompton Road." The plans are at Paling's. ...
Article : 32 words"The Front Page" will be performed to-night at the Playbox Theatre by Mr. Duncan Macdougall's company. This piece is to be succeeded by Eugene O'Neill's "Strange Interlude," on ...
Article : 34 wordsGilere's Quartet in A, opus 2, and the second movement of the Beethoven Piano Quartet, opus 16, will be played by members of the Sverjensky Ensemble at their twenty-eighth luncheon-hour ...
Article : 41 wordsThe Piano Quartet in G minor, by Brahms, Haydn's Quartet on G. and Arthur Benjamin's "Pastoral Fantasy," will be included in the programme of the Conservatorium Quartet at its ...
Article : 64 wordsThe Granville and District Choral Society's production of "Faust," conducted by Mr. James H. Gibb, will be repeated at the Auburn Town Hall on Wednesday evening next. ...
Article : 28 wordsA recital by Miss Constance Burt, soprano, is announced for Thursday, November 14, at the Conservatorium. Her music will include "Ah, for[?] e lui," "Rejoice Greatly," and songs by Mozart, ...
Article : 50 wordsAlfred Hill's cantata, "The New Jerusalem," will be performed at St. Oswald's Church, Haberfield, to-morrow afternoon, at 3 o'clock, under the direction of Mr. John Mansfield. Mr. Cyril Monk will ...
Article : 47 wordsHaiti, the subject of Mr. H. F. Davis's "Black Democracy," has an interesting, if [?]ombre, history. It is the western portion of the island formerly known as Hispaniola, ...
Article : 453 wordsThe statement of Mr. A. E. Sellers, superintendent of Belambi Colliery, before the Coal Commission on Thursday, that the Balmain enterprise was likely to be terminated ...
Article : 246 wordsNext Thursday has been chosen by Miss Cecile Adkins, soprano, for her recital at the Conservatorium. Songs by Schubert, de Falla, Arnold Bax, Gerard Williams, Scarlatti, Byrd, Paradles, and ...
Article : 53 wordsA concert is to be given at the Conservatorium on Monday, November 11, by Miss Heather Kinnaird (contralto) and Mr. Raymond Beatty (basso). Songs by Handel, Schumann, and Schubert, and ...
Article : 58 wordsThe approach of Christmas is heralded by the appearance of books suitable for presentation purposes. Thus the Lothian Publishing Co. has brought out an attractive series of ...
Article : 461 wordsA recital of negro spirituals and art songs will be given by Miss Josie Freeman at the King's Hall on Monday, November 18. Assistance will be given by Messrs. Hugh McClean and G. Vera Barnett. ...
Article : 46 wordsMiss Inez Lang, violinist, will give a recital at the Conservatorium on Tuesday, November 12. The programme will include Sonata for violin and pianoforte (Joseph Jongen), Concerto in D major ...
Article : 59 wordsThe plan is at Paling's for Miss Lucille Bruntnell's programme at the King's Hall on Saturday, Novemer 16, when she will give her interpretation of A. A. Milne's "When We Were Very Young." A ...
Article : 65 wordsThe interesting moving pictures illustrating life in New Guinea are shown twice daily at the Savoy Theatre. These pictures are of great interest and variety, and furnish a complete idea of the customs ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 252 wordsA chamber music concert by pupils of Mr. S. Vost Janssen is to take place at Paling's Hall, Ash-street, this morning, at 11 o'clock. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Metropolitan Band, conducted by Mr. John Palmer, will play in the Botanic Gardens to-morrow afternoon at 3 o'clock. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe stage settings and the costuming were two particularly attractive features in Mr. Allan Wilkie's production of "Macbeth" at the Newtown Majestic Theatre yesterday ...
Article : 499 words"The Black Watch" has been transferred from the Regent Theatre to the Theatre Royal, where it enters to-day on the last week of its season. Next Saturday, at the Theatre Royal, "The ...
Article : 65 wordsDouglas Fairbanks will appear to-day at the Haymarket Theatre in his first talking film, founded on Dumas' well-known romance, "The Iron Mask," in which the Three Musketeers figure. ...
Article : 32 wordsA change of programme at the Regent Theatre to-day brings forward Warner Baxter and Lois Moran in a new Fox talking film entitled, "Behind That Curtain." It is a mystery story with an ...
Article : 38 words"The Desert Song" continues its successful season at the St. James Theatre, where it is being shown three times daily. ...
Article : 25 wordsWarner Brothers' spectacular film, "Noah's Ark," enters to-day on the second week of its season at the Lyceum Theatre. Dolores Costello and George O'Brien head the cast. ...
Article : 29 wordsThe Ziegfeld Follies appear in a series of elaborate scenes in Paramount, talking film, "The Dance of Life," which is being screened at the Prince Edward Theatre. ...
Article : 33 words"A Book of New French Cooking," by M. Paul Reboux, is more than a collection of recipes. It is an extremely witty dissertation upon the principles of gastronomy. Of ...
Article : 534 wordsDouglas McLean and Marie Prevost head the cast of the new Paramount film, "Divorce Made Easy," which is to be screened to-day at the State Theatre. Bert Lytell appears in "The Lone Wolf's ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 22 wordsAt the Capitol Theatre to-day the two principal films will be "The Cohens and Kellys in Atlantic City" (part talking), with George Sidney and Mack Swain, and "Forbidden Hours" (silent), with ...
Article : 38 wordsTragedy in Powsey Court, Willett (Longman's, Green, and Co.; price 7/6). The Wise Child, Gielgud (Chapman and Hall; price 7/6). ...
Article : 175 wordsThe Federal Conference of representatives of blinded soldiers' organisations to-day adopted the constitution for a federal body, to be known as the Australian Blinded ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 42 wordsA ticket in a Queensland event, and worth £1000, lay unclaimed in a Forbes shop for nine days. Eventually a telegram was sent to the fortunate owner of the ticket, ...
Article : 89 words"Women Posts of Early Australia" is the subject that has been chosen by Miss Margaret Swann for her address to the Henry Lawson Literary Society in the assembly hall at the Education Building on ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 2 Nov 1929, Page 12
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