Probably the most famous tennis racquet in Australia that with which Jack Crawford won the French and Wimbledon championships and used ...
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Article : 223 wordsBebe Daniels is starred in "A Southern Maid," the British International picture, which heads the new programme at His Majesty's Theatre to-day. This ...
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Article : 92 wordsThe two films which commence a season at the Prince of Wales Theatre, Hobart, to-day promise film fare of a lively quality. "It's Great to be Alive," ...
Article : 119 wordsAn all-British programme commenced a season of a week at the Avalon Theatre yesterday. The main feature is the British Dominions comedy "Up for the ...
Article : 73 wordsThe Royal Commission on Wheat will begin to receive evidence in public on February 21. On that day the chairman (Sir Herbert Gepp), Mr. E. P. M. Sheedy ...
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Article : 153 wordsClem Dawe and his Midnight Frolics Company will commence their farewell season in Hobart, at the Theatre Royal this afternoon and evening. The revue ...
Article : 80 wordsSmoke from bush fires in Tasmania, which blew across Bass Strait on Saturday night and enveloped Southern Victoria on Sunday, is now returning to ...
Article : 395 wordsMiss C. Oberlin Harris who has been treasurer of the New Norfolk branch of the Red Cross Society for some time was appointed secretary at a special ...
Article : 143 words"Red Dust," the Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer drama of the tropics, will be the principal attraction at the Moonah Theatre to-day. Clark Gable and Jean Harlow ...
Article : 68 wordsTo cater for the senior members of the Tasmanian Amateur Athletic Association a three-lap handicap has been arranged and entiles will be received up ...
Article : 473 wordsThe Amateur Horticultural Society will hold a gladioli show in the City Hall next Thursday and Friday. The Governor (Sir Ernest Clark) will open ...
Article : 43 wordsFixtures.—Sunday February 4: Social run to Badger Head Saturday. February 10: Handicap and championship hill climb, White Hills. ...
Article : 198 wordsAfter a world tour the "wonder glass blower" has returned to Australia, and will give exhibitions of manufacturing all kinds of glassware novelties and ...
Article : 113 wordsMr. A. Duff Cooper, Financial Secretary to the War Office, who is the biographer of the late Earl Haig, urges cessation of the mutual distrust of ...
Article : 177 wordsElsia, the "man-woman," who was at the Hobart Show, will be on view at the regatta on Tuesday. The right side of her body is masculine and the ...
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Article : 369 wordsDances will be held at the Continental next Wednesday and Saturday evenings, Cup and Steplechase nights respectively. ...
Article : 21 wordsThe draw for the open fours of three games of 11 ends, to be played on the South Launceston green this afternoon, commencing at 2.30, is:—Round 1: C. ...
Article : 135 wordsSupper dances will be held at the Imperial to-night, and on Wednesday and Thursday. ...
Article : 18 wordsThe Bucks' dancing assemblies will be continued at the clubhouse, New Town Bay, this evening. The "all white" ball is advertised for Tuesday. ...
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Article : 142 wordsThe net proceeds of the concert to be held in the Hobart Town Hall on Monday evening will be devoted to the bush fire relief funds. The concert will be ...
Article : 55 wordsA fierce northerly gale swept Britain to-day, being especially violent over the English Channel and North Sea. Two cross-Channel sailings between Dover ...
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Article : 212 wordsBRED IN THE PURPLE.—On the left is "The Best Man Bentley," an Aberdeen Angus bull rising three years, bred on the Bentley estate at Chuldleigh from imported parents. A selection of the famous Aberdeen Angus stud cattle at Bentley is shown on the right. These cattle are famed for their beef-producing qualities. E. A. Bell, photos. ... [ILLUSTRATED]
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The Mercury (Hobart, Tas. : 1860 - 1954), Sat 3 Feb 1934, Page 7
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