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Article : 100 wordsSir,--I am another ancient playgoer, who is deeply grateful to "The Age" and its contributors for kindly reviving many joys of the past. I am an ...
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Article : 303 wordsSir,--Though a resident of Hobart for many years, I take your paper regularly, and as an ''old-timer'" I must thank you and your correspondents for the pleasure ...
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Article : 108 wordsSir,--How aptly "Old Stage Hand" describes the theatrical reminiscences as being "veritable showers of star dust and spangles, bringing to mind the great dead ...
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Article : 339 words"Women go almost as much without hats as with them, and there is not the slightest, reason why they should not come to church ...
Article : 211 wordsSir,--It has been a great delight to have so many happy memories recalled in your valuable Saturday's supplement. Who even can forget Caste with old Eccles ...
Article : 279 wordsSir,--Your correspondent of 7th October, A. H. T. Prinsep, wishes to know the name of Johnnie Sheridan's leading lady in Fun on the Bristol. Was it not ...
Article : 58 wordsSir,--I have read with interest in "The Age" of late references to the old-time windjammers that came out to Australia many long years ago. I would like to ask ...
Article : 147 wordsSir,--With reference to an article which appeared in last Saturday's issue of "The Age," I should like to mention that Gracie Plaisted was a member of St. Stephen's ...
Article : 74 wordsSir,--Kindly permit space to record an incident in Maggie Moore's last appearance in Struck Oil. Responding to the continued applause at the close of the ...
Article : 201 wordsSir,--Kindly allow me to thank, briefly, the several correspondents who recently obliged me with information, through "The Age" columns, regarding the ...
Article : 107 wordsSir,--I am rather surprised that no one has yet mentioned that great artist. Mrs. Robert Brough. I remember with most pleasant memories, two at least of her ...
Article : 417 wordsSir,--The photograph enclosed I believe to be Mr. Dampier, taken about 1877. He said, "Do you think the pigs would object to a smake?" "W.J.B." was correct in ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Sat 14 Oct 1933, Page 6
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