After an exceptionally fine performance of Iolanthe at the Theatre Royal on Saturday, it is difficult not to incline to the [?] expressed view that "the best ...
Article : 530 wordsThe prefects in the boys department at the Young Men's Christian Association were very largely responsible for the success of the "Mother and Son" social on ...
Article : 342 wordsAt a special joint meeting of overseas and inter-State ship owners, held on Saturday to discuss the Government's promulgation of new waterside ...
Article : 429 words"The object is not to exploit the world's consumers, but to seek a remedy for the abnormal situation which is forcing wheat mowers to sell below the cost of ...
Article : 122 wordsLord Irwin, the former Viceroy of India, was the guest at a luncheon of the British Indian Union to-day, over which Lord Reading presided. ...
Article : 535 wordsIndia will be brought within five days of England and Central Africa only just over six days by the accelerated air Mail services of the Imperial Airways, ...
Article : 186 wordsBALLAN, Sunday.--At 11.15 a.m. today a serious motor accident took place half a mile on the east side of the East Ballan bridge It appears that a touring ...
Article : 228 wordsIn Reducing presented at the Regent on Saturday, two of the screen's most popular comedienne's, Marie Dressier and Polly Moran, score on of the outstanding ...
Article : 175 wordsTeacher of music are finding the value of pulling together to improve their ideas further their work. The Musical Society of Victoria renders immediate ...
Article : 339 wordsThe film version of the popular musical play first Rita. which had a year ago, when the principal screening at Paramount ...
Article : 129 wordsA representative of the Australian Press Association has made inquiries from the American Farm Board concerning sinister statements by Mr. Parker Moloney, ...
Article : 100 wordsLondon newspapers have published a letter circulated by the Automobile Association and received from the Queensland association by the first air mail. The ...
Article : 107 wordsThe veil of police secrecy, which has now been extended by the Police Commissioner to cover ordinary street accidents has been drawn over an accident ...
Article : 228 wordsThere was a capacity attendance at Hoyts Plaza on Saturday evening when a fine programme of pictures and music was presented. Chief among the former ...
Article : 1,036 wordsAddressing the Empire Society on the wheat surplus and economic crisis, Sir Daniel Hall, chief scientific adviser to the Ministry of Agriculture, said he regarded ...
Article : 334 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--The first Dutch air mail linking Australia with Java and Holland arrived at Archerfield aerodrome at 3 p.m. to-day. A big crowd ...
Article : 268 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.-- Tennis circles were electrified when Mrs. B. Molesworth appeared recently on the Milton courts to wearing what the modern girl considers ...
Article : 175 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Three hundred members of the Waterside Worker Federation attended the picking-up shed on Saturday morning, but were not admitted. ...
Article : 122 wordsThe notable racing play The Calendar, by Edgar Wallace, which has been attracting big house at Wyndhams Theatre London for some time will be ...
Article : 98 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Sunday. -- Thomas Davey, 25 years, was killed late on Friday night. With his brother John, 23 years, he rode a motor cycle from Panmure ...
Article : 92 wordsWhen the Tivoli Theatre reopened is doors on Saturday it was apparent that a very definite demand exists far wholesome vaudeville at reasonable prices. The ...
Article : 306 wordsTo-morrow at 2 p.m., in the Ethel Osborne Hall of the Emily McPherson College of Domesie Economy, Miss Margaret Kirkhope, senior teacher of cookery, will ...
Article : 61 wordsMembers of the Voco Vocolists appealed at Central Hall, Little Collins-street, in a Pierrot show on Saturday. A varied programme of instrumental and vocal items, ...
Article : 108 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.--More waterside workers than volunteers were engaged yesterday. The approximate numbers were 224 watersiders and 130 volunteers. ...
Article : 52 wordsGandhi had an hour's conversation with Lord. Willingdon, the new Viceroy of India, at Simla yesterday. Later he said the interview was "healthy and good," ...
Article : 60 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--The aviators James Mollison and C. W. C. Scott will leave for England within a few days in separate machines in an endeavor to break ...
Article : 69 wordsThere were many happy reunions at the Palais de Danse, St. Kilda, on Saturday night, when scores of old patrons renewed their association with that ...
Article : 197 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--When the Premier (Mr. Lang) and his colleagues arrived by the Kyegle train from Sydney to-night, he was met at the station by a crowd of ...
Article : 124 wordsTrouble which has occurred at the unemployed single men's camp at Timboon because the men objected to paying 1311 a week for their food and 2 a week ...
Article : 338 wordsA motor cycle and side car ridden by Alfred Stebbing, of Park-street, South Melbourne, along Sydney-road, Campbell-field, towards the city early last night ...
Article : 214 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--The Netherlands air mail liner which is making an experimental trip to Australia should reach Mascot at 11 a.m. to-morrow. The plane ...
Article : 52 wordsArmed, bandits who are believed to be associated with the terrorists, darlingly raided a post office at Dacca, in East Bengal, this morning. They snatched ...
Article : 54 wordsThe Malvern Symphony Orchestra with Mr. William Mallinson asconductor will give a concert in the Malvern town hall on Saturday evening next. The ...
Article : 110 wordsA new attempt on the world's long-distance flying record will be made, probably about the end of July, in a big British monoplane. ...
Article : 38 wordsThe Afghan army, under the direction of King Nadir Shah, has been thoroughly overhauled and reorganised. Ten thousand long-range, French rifles and ...
Article : 61 words"Also flow" will soon be as common a phrase as "also ran." Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Shelmerdine, the new Director of Civil Aviation, few with his wife to ...
Article : 90 wordsUnder the auspices of the New Conservatorium of music a concert of chamber will be given in the Assembly Hall on Wednesday evening next. The ...
Article : 76 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Labor members of the Upper House have been advised by the executive of the State A.L.P. that they will have to sign a pledge to carry ...
Article : 178 wordsA crowded house at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday, provided more evidence of the back-to-the-theatre movement, which is very marked in Melbourne at the ...
Article : 316 wordsThe Commissioners of the Melbourne Harbor Trust, in their report for the year ended 31st December, 1930. state that total trade ol the port (3,894,289 ...
Article : 351 wordsBurmese rebels yesterday, overwhelmed the police post at Letu, in the Henzada district. They killed a sub-inspector and constable looked the arms and ...
Article : 124 wordsAbout 6.20 p.m. on Saturday a motor van, driven by J. Thompson, 8 Orrong-road, East St. Kilda, and conveying a number of young men home from a ...
Article : 139 wordsThe Melbourne City Council announce that a series, of three municipal concerts will be given on Thursdays, 28th May, 25th June and 23rd July, under the ...
Article : 98 wordsThree airmen were killed in a crash yesterday. The victims included a member of the Nobile rescue expedition who was the third survivor of that exploit to meet ...
Article : 49 wordsCr. Marshall. of Collingwood, is giving notice of motion at the next meeting of the council that a referendum be taken at the August election on the question ...
Article : 163 wordsMiss Beatrice Ternan is giving a series of evenings with the poets on alternate Thursdays, the subject for this week being W. B. Yeats, the mystic poet. After a ...
Article : 70 wordsThe Irish hospitals sweepstake on the English Derby has closed with a total subscription of £900,000. There will be four first prizes of £30,000 each, four ...
Article : 52 wordsGetting out of control when being driven along Bridge-road, Richmond, at 3 a.m. on Saturday, a motor car left the roadway, mounted the footpath and ...
Article : 78 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--The Commonwealth Bank Board will meet in Melbourne this week to go further into details of the bank merger. A scheme will ...
Article : 143 wordsBEECHWORTH, Sunday.--Mr. A. M Zwar, M.L.C., who retires by effluxion of time, was nominated to-day for his old seat, the north-eastern province. ...
Article : 30 wordsOn Thursday evening next a violin recital will be given in the Assembly Hall by Mr. Frank C. Schieblich, who recently returned from Europe. His programme ...
Article : 75 wordsThe usual week-end armed hold-up of a suburban railway station was staged at Seddon about 10 p.m. on Saturday, but the courage and resource of the station ...
Article : 276 wordsMr. J. Disney, M.L.C., supported by Mr. R. Williams, M.L.C., and Messrs. T. Tunneclife, G. M. Prendergast and M. M. Blackburn, Mr. L. A. opens campaign at mechanics institute ...
Article : 43 wordsLoyalties, John Galsworthy's notable play, was seen by large attendances at the Comedy Theatre last week, and on Saturday evening there was a capacity ...
Article : 108 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--When a motor lorry overturned five miles from Gunnedah to-day sixteen members of a picnic Party were injured. Maisic Chin ...
Article : 118 wordsThe Secret of Lourdes a play written by Rev. W. V. McEvoy, O.P., dealing with the religious scenes at Lourdes, in France, will commence a week's run ...
Article : 86 wordsSir,-- Some time during May a statement purporting to be made by the Minister in charge of sustenance Mr. R. Williams, M.L.C., was published in your ...
Article : 130 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--When Miss Minnie Muras, 51 years, of Hillview, returned to her home yesterday afternoon she found everyone out. On going into the kitchen, ...
Article : 98 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Addressing the Presbyterian Men's League to-day, Mr. J. Downes, the president stated that large sections of the community sold their votes ...
Article : 187 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Driven out of the mountainous country by hunger, Charies Morrice, 19 years, and Ernest Glynne Clark. 18 years, who made their escape ...
Article : 153 wordsThere was considerable enthusiasm at the Princess Theatre on Saturday evening. when the Old Scotch Collegians Club celebrated bout nice night. The theatre ...
Article : 118 wordsHonor Among Lovers, a good [?] of an unusual type, was the [?] offering at Britannia on Saturday. [?] the leading roles are played by Claudetta ...
Article : 68 wordsNext Wednesday evening at the Queens Hall, the Alt Theatre Players, under the direction of J. Beresford Fowler, will present Noel Coward's ...
Article : 29 wordsPERTH, Sunday.--Last night a motor car overtook and ran down Harold Yeoman, who was riding a bicycle near Fremantle. Yeoman died in hospital. ...
Article : 59 wordsSir,--On behalf of the Camberwell ladies committee, I will be glad if you will allow me through "The Age" to make an appeal to the generous citizens of Camberwell for ...
Article : 137 wordsThe Standard Players Society, under the direction of Miss Eileen O'Keefe, will on Thursday evening next in the Kelvin Hall Present the four one-act plays The ...
Article : 68 wordsNight Birds, a British International Films production in which there is [?] did acting, a clever plot thrills in [?] and elegant scened of London night life, ...
Article : 93 wordsA fire broke out shortly after midnight on Saturday in a store, constructed of wood and iron, belonging to Port Melbourne council, and situated in the same ...
Article : 88 wordsCANBERRA, Sunday.--Lending candidates in the Advisory Council election held yesterday are:--J. Goodwin, W. Gell, W. McFadyen, T. M. Shakespeare and R. ...
Article : 50 wordsBoth the morning and afternoon sessions at the Glaciarium on Saturday were even more largely attended than usual, as the schools have broken up for term holidays. ...
Article : 66 wordsAlthough it was a somewhat ambitious effort far a small amateur company, the student Theatre Society players gave a creditable inosculation of Sutton Vane's ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 18 May 1931, Page 8
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