Entertaining Australia: An Illustrated HistoryKatharine Brisbane Generously illustrated coffee table-format book which examines the development of Australian culture through a chronological presentation of the performing arts. It is a result of five years of the publisher's continuing Performing Arts in Australia project. The editor is the co-founder of Currency Press, a writer and theatre critic. Extensively indexed. |
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Page 42
... George Coppin went into the hotel business in Sydney in 1843 and began to hold a ' free - and - easy ' every Monday and Saturday evening in the large saloon of his Clown Tavern . This early form of English music hall was new to Sydney ...
... George Coppin went into the hotel business in Sydney in 1843 and began to hold a ' free - and - easy ' every Monday and Saturday evening in the large saloon of his Clown Tavern . This early form of English music hall was new to Sydney ...
Page 88
... George Darrell's play Transported for Life . Darrell had advertised not only great sensations but the times when they would be seen ' transported for life ' at 8 o'clock , ' the great diggings scene ' at 9 , ' the sensation of the shaft ...
... George Darrell's play Transported for Life . Darrell had advertised not only great sensations but the times when they would be seen ' transported for life ' at 8 o'clock , ' the great diggings scene ' at 9 , ' the sensation of the shaft ...
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... George ' Rignold ( below ) . He ran the theatre until 1895 and had major successes with melodramas , including his own five - act version of Uncle Tom's Cabin George Rignold runs Sydney's finest theatre The actor - manager George ...
... George ' Rignold ( below ) . He ran the theatre until 1895 and had major successes with melodramas , including his own five - act version of Uncle Tom's Cabin George Rignold runs Sydney's finest theatre The actor - manager George ...
Contents
The hidden Australia | 10 |
Origins of a colonial culture | 20 |
Moving pictures in the theatre | 125 |
Copyright | |
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