Friday the large fire which had been raging around Montrose swept up the mountain road under the influence of a strong north wind, in a temperature of ...
Article : 422 wordsRain reports to 9 a.m. on Saturday showed that practically all the rain recorded ... [ILLUSTRATED]
Article : 239 wordsThe Lieutenant-Governor, attended by Major H. A. F. Wilkinson, M.C., V.D., private secretary, visited the Lord Somers camp yesterday and remained to lunch. ...
Article : 948 wordsSinbad the Sailor is attracting large audiences to the Theatre Royal. The spectacular and comedy features of the production seem to be the draw. Messrs. ...
Article : 80 wordsMORNINGTON, Sunday.--The intense heat of Saturday was responsible for outbreaks of fire in the Red Hill, Flinders and Merricks districts. At Red Hill the ...
Article : 131 wordsWARBURTON, Sunday.--A bush fire started on Saturday afternoon near the Seven-mile camp, on the Donna Buang-road, and burnt in an easterly direction. ...
Article : 129 wordsThere is no doubt that on both stage and screen General Lew Wallace's stirring Biblical romance Ben Hur will always be popular This picture is now ...
Article : 279 wordsRachel Crother's delightful comedy As Husbands Go drew crowded houses to the King's Theatre on Saturday. Miss Ethel Morrison, as the widow, is ...
Article : 60 wordsMANSFIELD, Sunday.--Seven fires broke out in various parts of the district to-day. It is impossible to ascertain what damage has been done, but much grass has ...
Article : 65 wordsAbout 25 acres of ti-tree and scrub, valuable because of the shade they afforded, were destroyed by fire at Sandringham on Saturday afternoon. The ...
Article : 62 wordsARARAT, Sunday.--About 2.30 p.m. on Saturday a bush fire broke out at Langi Logan, a few miles from Ararat. Car loads of workers were despatched to join others ...
Article : 110 wordsMr. Ernest Rolls's bright musical revue, League of Happiness, entered upon its fourth and last week, at the Palace, on Saturday. Last week each performance ...
Article : 136 wordsEMERALD, Sunday.--Fanned by a strong northerly wind the fire that broke out in the forest land near Montrose on Friday afternoon burned with renewed ...
Article : 376 wordsHaving completed one week of the fortnight's training course for scout leaders at Gilwell Park, near Gembrook, the forty-five South Australian and Victorian ...
Article : 737 wordsA full week's programmes are published in "The Age" every Friday. ...
Article : 14 wordsA grass fire occurred yesterday morning at Forest Hill, starting in a dry creek bed between the poultry farms of Messrs. G. Dancey and Clifton. Before a fairly strong breeze the flames swept away in ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 497 wordsBAIRNSDALE, Sunday.--Fires which have been raging to the north of Bairnsdale for three days, fanned by a northwesterly wind, threatened the Granite ...
Article : 409 wordsA full house gleefully registered the innumerable chuckles caused by the drolleries of Mr. Jim Gerald and his New Musical Revue Co. at the Tivoli Theatre ...
Article : 167 wordsThe present interesting and entertaining programme at the Capitol, after a successful run of several weeks, will be withdrawn on Friday evening ...
Article : 169 wordsGEELONG, Sunday.--Soon after 5 p.m. to-day Geelong fire brigade was called out to combat a conflagration in grass paddocks near the breakwater. About ...
Article : 69 wordsLANG LANG, Sunday.--Lang Lang is black with smoke to-day, the effects of the bush fire raging in the Heath Hill district, some eight miles away. The fire ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 68 wordsMr. Alf. Broadway's spectacular comedy pantomime, Red Riding Hood, commenced its fourth week at the Playhouse on Saturday, and at both the afternoon and ...
Article : 122 wordsDaughter of the Dragon, based on one of Sax Rohmer's novels, and which contains thrills and humor in ample measure, was one of the offerings at Hoyts de ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 49 wordsADELAIDE, Sunday.--More than 100 square miles of country near Wilmington, about 200 miles north of Adelaide, have been swept by fires, which have done ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 36 wordsThe Art Theatre Players added another success to their already appreciable list by an excellent presentation of Candida, Bernard Shaw's delightful comedy, at the ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 29 wordsBEACONSFIELD, Sunday.--The most thrilling fire-fighting episodes for many years occurred around Beaconsfield Upper during Friday and Saturday, and for a ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 46 wordsBuster Keaton, as an "up town" millionaire, who later turns philanthropist and social reformer, is seen at his best in Sidewalks of New York, which was the ...
Article : 182 wordsDuring the week end the fire brigade was summoned to about 50 grass fires in the metropolitan area. At the corner of Alma and Lansdown roads, East St. ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 631 wordsWeek end activities for the visiting West Australian schoolgirls began with a trip to the Melbourne University on Saturday morning, when they were met ...
Article : 267 wordsJanet Gaynor's latest feature film to reach Melbourne, Merely Mary Ann, is a delightful production. It is somewhat different from the earlier Gaynor-Farrell ...
Article : 371 wordsBUNYIP Sunday.--There were two serious bush fire outbreaks during the week end in this district, when the towns of Garfield and Tynong were threatened ...
Article : 257 wordsMarie Dressier and Polly Moran have rarely been seen to better advantage than in their latest picture, Politics, which commended its third week of screening ...
Article : 156 wordsYARRAWONGA, Sunday.--A gloom has been east over the town and district as the result of a triple drowning fatality at the junction of the Ovens and Murray ...
Article : 175 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--A report reached the general manager of northern railways at Townsville that there were further rains in the north-west, following those ...
Article : 305 wordsEast of Bornea, which has attracted large attendances to the Athenaeum since Boxing day, will have its last screening on Friday evening next. The picture was ...
Article : 139 wordsCAMPERDOWN, Saturday.--At a cost of £9280, additions to the hospital, comprising intermediate and midwifery wards, were opened by Mr. T. C. Manifold, M.L.A., whose late father and two uncles ...
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Detailed lists, results, guides : 149 wordsBRISBANE, Sunday.--Three trucks, which were part of a mixed train from Maryborough to Bundaberg, were destroyed by fire at Torbanlea station on ...
Article : 123 wordsELAINE, Sunday.--The Enfield district, near Elaine, was swept by a serious grass fire, which broke out about 1 p.m. on Friday. Many acres ...
Article : 344 wordsIn Secrets of a Secretary, now showing at the Regent Theatre, Claudette Colbert, who has a fine personality, plays dual parts with surprising versatility. In the ...
Article : 313 wordsWANGARATTA, Sunday.--John Campbell, the 11-year-old son of Mr. M. C. Campbell, Clerk of courts at Wangaratta, was drowned in the swimming pool at ...
Article : 180 wordsThe excellent programme of Efftee talkies, including Diggers and The Haunted Born, continues to attract capacity audiences on Hoy[?]s suburban circuit, ...
Article : 75 wordsSTAWELL, Sunday.--The fire in the Grampians, which on Thursday last was travelling up Tunnel Hill and over the range to Pomonal, on Saturday commenced ...
Article : 487 wordsWELLINGTON, Saturday.--The Ninety-Mile beach was still rough to-day Torrential rain fell throughout the night, and the weather was dull to-day. ...
Article : 250 wordsSYDNEY, Sunday.--Considerable panic prevailed among 600 passengers on the ferry Lady Rawson this morning, when the tail shaft broke and the engines ...
Article : 163 wordsFascination, a triangle drama, with Madeline Carroll and Cecil Harbord in the leading roles, was the main release at Melba on Saturday. The Man at Six, ...
Article : 49 wordsLAUNCESTON, Saturday.--The theft of a flock of sheep, numbering 315, from an open paddock on the outskirts of the township of Evandale, is surrounded by ...
Article : 143 wordsTolstoi's drama The White Devil, a story of a Russia at the time of Czar Nicholas I., and about the year 1825, commenced at week's run at Britannia on ...
Article : 49 wordsMelbourne's water consumption on Friday totalled 129,072,000 gallons, which is only 725,000 gallons short of the record established on 5th February, 1930. The ...
Article : 49 wordsSEA LAKE, Sunday.--Jean Berry, about 24 years of age, of Mentone, was swimming in the Green Lake yesterday afternoon, and when about 150 yards from ...
Article : 104 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday.-- Arrangements have been made to race Prince Pombal in Australia. The two-year-old classic events in Sydney and Melbourne ...
Article : 30 wordsA reception by acclamation, such as is associated with the legitimate stage, was on Saturday evening accorded the British talking film Hobson's Choice, ...
Article : 168 wordsWELLINGTON, Sunday. -- Ripping through an 18-inch log in 11 1-5th sec., H and A. Fraser at Southland sports on Saturday broke the world's record for ...
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The Age (Melbourne, Vic. : 1854 - 1954), Mon 18 Jan 1932, Page 8
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