Mr. Thomas Hardy, sitting in an armchair in his drawing-room at Maxgate, his home near Dorchester, on December 6 last, watched the performance of the dramatised version of his great work, "Tess of the D'Urbervilles," by the entire company from the Garrick Theatre, London. He is seen (centre) with Mr. Phillp Rldgoway, the producer (right), watching the confession scene between "Tess" (Gwen Ffrancon-Davles) ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 89 wordsA public meeting held at Wonthaggi to-day was addressed by Messrs.T. Walsh (the president of the Seamen's Union). and Mr. C. S. O'Neill (the secretary of ...
Article : 172 wordsAn exceptionally good programme was presented at the Empire Theatre on Saturday evening. Weather conditions did not make any difference to the usual ...
Article : 261 wordsMr. Daniel Jonas was recontly commissioned by the "Courier" to visit the Upper Burnett cotton-growing areas and roport on the prospects in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 140 wordsMrs. Hannah Hughes Bevan, of Wales, who had been declared to be legally dead, is now reported to be alive in Australia, She went for a holiday to [?]fracombe in ...
Article : 76 wordsThe proposals for wool control were definitely rejected at a meeting at Bradford of the British Wool Federation. A resolution was passed that it was ...
Article : 68 wordsCrashing through a post and rail fence on the road between Keilor and Essendon on Friday night a stolen motor car overturned in a gully. The police are ...
Article : 265 wordsDouglas Fairbanks his surrounded himself with a splendid cast for his picture "Don. Q., Son of Zorro," now showing at the Wintergarden theatre. Mary Astor ...
Article : 134 wordsA carefully planned raid was carried out by the police at a few minutes to midnight on Saturday on the Continental a fashionable cafe and dancing saloon, ...
Article : 126 wordsThe experiences of a bush nurse are many and varied, as is evident from the narrative of Miss E. Rowe, one of the Victorian Bush Nurses, who describes some ...
Article : 1,110 wordsAbbe Desnoyers appeared before the court to-day, and was examined for three hours. He declared that he had no connection at present with a Bordeaux seet, ...
Article : 300 wordsThe wool trade does not expect the first series of sales, which will open on Tuesday, to show any great divergence in values from the last sales of 1925. The ...
Article : 343 wordsThe concluding pantomime of the season, "Little Red Riding Hood," will be presented at the Majestic twice daily all the week, and on Saturday night the ...
Article : 166 wordsCarrying over 700 passengers,the liner Largs Bay arrived this evening at Fremantle from England. The vessel was delayed for three days in England owing ...
Article : 158 wordsAnother clash between the "Reds" and A.L.P. supporters will take place at the Trades Hall on Tuesday, when the annual election, of. officers in the Miscellaneous ...
Article : 85 wordsThe Tivoli theatre programme to-day includes Gloria Swanson in "The Coast of Folly." It is the story of a young society gul, caught in the quicksands of scandal. ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Queensland Butter Board advises that the price of butter will be advanced by a halfpenny per pound as from to-day, making the wholesale price of ...
Article : 72 wordsCharlie Chaplin's picture "The Gold Rush," will be screened at the Valley Theatre to-day, and the whole of this week. The second attraction for the first ...
Article : 97 wordsShock and injuries were received by Barney O'Brien (railway employee), lately residing in Flinders-street, Undereliffe, when he was struck by an engine ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the inquest into the death of Mrs Crabtree, it was stated that George Sharples, who is under arrest, was is unfit to attend. He had previously been taken ...
Article : 163 wordsThe Bradford expert of the "Yorkshire Post" says the opinion of those best qualified to judge is that artificial wool, when ...
Article : 98 wordsThe appreciation shown by the large audience that saw Mr. Keith Dalton's vaudeville players at the Elite Theatre on Saturday indicated tint it is the ...
Article : 116 wordsThe Naval Court of Inguiry into the collision of the Empress of Asia and the Tungshing on January 11 returned a verdiet that the commanders of both ...
Article : 67 wordsWith his skull fractured, Alexander Scott (10 years), of Northumberlandstreet South Melbourne, was admitted to the Alfred Hospital on Saturday ...
Article : 80 wordsA motor cycle collided with a sulky at Normanby last night. Julia Burgess, of Enoggera-terrace, Paddington, and Todd Browning, of Bale-street, Wilston, who ...
Article : 74 wordsBenjamin Gahan, of Clarke-street, Prahran, who was admitted to the Melbourne Hospital on Friday night with a gunshot wound in the abdomen, died at ...
Article : 69 wordsThe heat wave continues. To-day a maximum temperature of 106.7deg. was registered, being a record for the summer. At 10 o'clock to-night the reading was ...
Article : 35 wordsAt a meeting of creditors in the estate of Harold Bowler, cotton broker, of Liverpool, who two years ago was reported to be worth £125, 000, and whose affairs now ...
Article : 101 wordsAccording to figures given by the National Council of Wool Sellers and Brokers of Australia, the total wool received into store in Western Australia ...
Article : 67 wordsFlames from burning nitrate of soda in one of the holds threatended the fourmasted barquentine Fennia with destruction at the wharf of Cuming, Smith, and ...
Article : 156 wordsThe Japanese training ship, Iwate was berthed at the Outer Harbour on Saturday morning. and during the day the diminutive white uniformed figures of her ...
Article : 121 wordsSydney Elberfield (aged 15 years), of Moore-street, Coburg, was returning from a picnic last night with his mother and brother, when he fell out of the train in ...
Article : 94 wordsA fine of £20 was imposed by Mr. M'Culloch, P.M., at the Coffs Harbour Police Court, on Norman E. Nelson, driver and owner of a service car on the ...
Article : 224 wordsThe French corporal, Cellier, who sounded "cease fire" at the war, [?] been, awarded the Cross of Legion of Honour. ...
Article : 36 wordsWilliam Suchting, a married man, 55 years of age, who lived in Bunya-street, Greenslopes, died suddenly in a citybound tramcar near the intersection of ...
Article : 52 wordsThe breakdown gang had the line cleared at the scene of the railway collision at Goomeri on Friday at 6 o'clock on Saturday morning. The line was not ...
Article : 39 wordsThe new repair workshops for the Brisbane tramways, which are being erected at the corner of North Quay and Boomerang-street, are making rapid progress. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 24 wordsAbout 4.45 p.m. on Saturday Constables Rogers and Johnston, of the Water Police, found the body of a boy floating neal the mouth of Oxley Creek. The body was ...
Article : 92 wordsThe opinion of the Food Trader Federation regarding the wrapping of bread was [?]ought in a communication sent by the Public Health Department ...
Article : 138 wordsDuring the six months ended December 31 last the Tasmanian State revenue amounted to £183,503, a decrease of £38,000 on the receipts for the ...
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The Brisbane Courier (Qld. : 1864 - 1933), Mon 18 Jan 1926, Page 10
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