The Wonders of Salvage," by Mr. David Masters, is aptly named, for these true stories make one marvel at what can be achieved by seamanship, resource, and ...
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Article : 1,502 wordsAmong the private festivities arranged for race week was a dance given by Mrs. Matthew Robinson and Mrs. Steenle Osborne at the Golf Club. Rose Bay, on Tuesday ...
Article : 581 wordsSir Keith and Lady Smith, Mrs. John Adams, and Miss Root (America) were the guests of honour at the English Speaking Union's musicale, held yesterday afternoon at ...
Article : 217 wordsThe annual State convention of the Women's Christian Temperance Union will be held next week in the Belvoir-street Baptist Church, near Prince Alfred Park. The first afternoon, ...
Article : 304 wordsThere was a steady stream of visitors yesterday to the Loan Exhibition now being hold at the Feminist Club, Culwulla-chambers, in aid of the Women's College Bell in the ...
Article : 154 wordsMiss May Milne, who left recently for a holiday trip to England, expects to be absent for about six months. A jumble sale will be held next Wednesday ...
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Family Notices : 156 wordsLike a blow in the face the wind rammed the words down his throat. The southerly had crossed the valley and struck. With a wild shriek of tossing timber the ...
Article : 931 wordsDown in the gully of Clark's Fancy sunshine following heavy rain had brought forth a host of tiny green shoots from the charred black ground. ...
Article : 289 wordsOur new story—"The Marked Man"—the opening chapter of which will appear in Monday's issue of the "Herald," is by the famous novelist, William Le Queux—a fact in itself ...
Article : 367 words"Othello" will be presented at the New Palace Theatre to-night for the first time this season, with Allan Wilkie as the noble Moor, Miss Hunter-Watts as Desdemona, and Leslie Manners as lago. "Henry V." ...
Article : 93 wordsThis afternoon and evening, at the Theatre Royal "The Cousin from Nowhere," the new and entrancing musical romance, now brings on Marie Burke to the advantage both of the vocal and the acting side of ...
Article : 75 wordsAt 2 and 8 p.m., at Her Majesy's Theatre the J. C. Willlamson Company will continue its successful career with "Whirled into Happiness," which, with Alfred Frith as a barber, and the real barber, Harold Pearce ...
Article : 145 wordsThe clever comedy provided in "The Laughter of Fools" at the Criterion placed John D. O'Hara at the lovable man who tends his own roses and other people's auction sales with the most amusing results, ...
Article : 76 wordsOn Saturday night next Mr. O'Hara, whose Sydney sesson is now rapidly drawing to a close, will revive "Lighitnin," the comedy with which be first became acquainted with Australian audiences some years ago, ...
Article : 71 wordsAt the Tivoli Theatre, at 2.30 and 8, Beryl Beresford, who has a big reputation abroad as a singer of comedy songs, will make her debut in a laughable act with Leslie Hinton. Another newcomer (in chorus songs) ...
Article : 72 wordsThe Stiffy and Mo Revue Company enter upon their seventh week to-day at 2.30 with a new revue as plumbers. It deals with their intrusion upon a wedding party, giving the nagging wife and jealous ...
Article : 72 wordsAt 2.30 and 8 to-day George Wallace and his merry company will be seen in a new revue. "The Onjah Bird." In this Eastern tale George Wallace rids the land of a pestiferous bird, and in return is made ...
Article : 71 wordsTo-night at Wirths' Hippodrome the J. C. Bain Vaudeville Company will present Bert Weston (equilibrist) Arthur Tauchert (sentimental bloke), the Pictorial Lytellos, Harmony Duo (two juveniles), the ...
Article : 66 wordsThis evening at 7.45 the Messrs. Pople will give the annual concert of their Schools of Music at the Conservatorium, with the assistance of their concert orchestra of 65 performer. Miss Essie Ackland and ...
Article : 63 wordsThe Metropolitan Band, under Mr. John Palmer, will play in the Hyde Park rotunda at 7.30. The State Military Bund, under Mr. J. B. Tougher, will give a concert with soloists at Wirths' ...
Article : 75 wordsAt the Playbox, 11 Rowe-street, to-morrow evening, at 7.30, Mr. Duncan Macdougall will read a witty comedy by Elmer K. Rice, entitled "The Home of the Free, and St. John G. Ervine's amusing play ...
Article : 46 wordsAt the Conservatorium Hall next Monday a pianoforte recital will be given by Miss Iris de Calros-Rego. That accomplished artist will play two sonatas in D and G minor (Francesco-Durante), prelude, choral, and ...
Article : 71 wordsOn Monday next (8 p.m.), at St. James's Hall, Mr. Brunton Gibb and Miss Ethel Lang will join in attractive recitations, monologues, and sketches, while the musical side of the entertainment will bring on Miss ...
Article : 57 wordsOn Tuesday evening, in the Hyde Park Unitarian Church, the Rev. George Walters will give a Chirles Dickens recital, the items being "Sydney Carton's Self-Sacrifice" and "Childhood and Age," being humourous ...
Article : 45 wordsOn Wednesday evening next the Royal Sydney Apollo Club, in the absence of Mr. Alfred Hill, will be conducted by Mr. W. Arundel Orchard, at the Conservatorium, for their 210th concert, when the choral ...
Article : 85 wordsOn Wednesday evening next, Misses Lottie Glenfield and Edyth Pettigrew will give a dramatic and humorous recital at St. James' Hall, when an attractive programme will be presented, with the assistance of ...
Article : 58 wordsThe Sydney University Dramatic Society is giving a three nights' season at the Teachers' Training College Hall, University Grounds, on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday next, at 8 o'clock, in aid of the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 61 wordsThe Welsh Choral Society will give a concert next Saturday evening, at the "Conservatorium, when the choir will give a miscellaneous programme under the direction of Mr. E. H. Jones, assisted by Madam Mina ...
Article : 61 wordsDorothy Ewbank (diplomee State Conservatorium) will give a song-recital in King's Hell on Saturday next at 8 p.m. An attractive programme will include songs by Pergolesi, Lie, Puccini, Mozart, ...
Article : 60 wordsMiss Beryl Howard will give a pianoforte recital in the Conservatorium Hall on Tuesday, October 21, including works by Chopin and Glazounow, and w[?] Mr. F. Hutchens symphonic due for two pianos by ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 66 wordsAt King's Hall on Thursday, October 23, an clocution and dramatic recital will be given by Mr. Mont[?] gomery Stuart, who will also introduce three advanced pupils—Mrs. Lee Sherriff (N.Z.), Miss Thelma ...
Article : 60 wordsMiss Rita Kirkpatrick, a soprano of not in social circies, who sang a great deal at war concerts, and appeares in Melbourne as Santuzza at the Pincess's Theatre with Vittorio Lois end Count Filippini, will ...
Article : 72 wordsA great deal of interest is being displayed in the preparation for the third subscription concert by the Royal Philharmonic Society of Sydney. Elgar's "Apostles," the work chosen bv the committee for ...
Article : 67 wordsMr. and Mrs. Bennett North have just returned from the Wellington and Dunedin competitions, where they have both been acting as adjudicator, in the musical and elocution sections. The Wellington entries exceeded ...
Article : 56 wordsOn Wednesday evening last a successful concert was given at Warringah Hall in aid of the pipe organ fund of St. Augustine's Church before a crowded audience. Enthuslasm was roused by the singing of Madame ...
Article : 103 wordsDirected by William de Mi[?]e, with May McAvoy, Malcolm MacGregor, Ricardo Cortez, and George Fawcett in the cast, "The Bedroom Window" is a murder mystery picture with a surprising climax. It will ...
Article : 308 wordsA screen version of Clars Beranger's story "The Bedroom Window" forms the principal attraction at the Globe Theatre to-day. A wealthy banker is found shot in a room of his house, with a man ...
Article : 94 wordsSir,—The Sydney City Mission desires to give publicity to a scheme it has on hand to establish a childrens convalescent home, where those children in dire need of healthy ...
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The Sydney Morning Herald (NSW : 1842 - 1954), Sat 11 Oct 1924, Page 12
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