The Mysteries of Sydney is a 1853 Australian play by Francis Belfield. It was based on a series of articles that appeared in Bell's Life in Sydney. [1] [2]
Plays set in Sydney were very rare at the time. [3] [4] [5]
The play was in three acts. [6]
Bell's Life... was a group of newspapers produced in Australia in the mid-nineteenth century based upon the English publication Bell's Life in London.
Tasman (Tas) Jones was an Australian sportsman, well known as a swimmer and a diver. He also played water polo, rugby union, and rugby league.
The Blue Mountains Mystery is a lost 1921 Australian silent film directed by Raymond Longford and co-directed by Lottie Lyell.
Sentenced for Life is an Australian film directed by E. I. Cole. It was an adaptation of a play performed by Cole and his Bohemian Dramatic Company as early as 1904.
Dan Morgan is a 1911 Australian film from Cosens Spencer about the bushranger Daniel Morgan. It was said to be starring "Alfred Rolfe and company". Rolfe directed three movies for Spencer, all starring himself and his wife Lily Dampier so there is a chance he may have directed this one and that it starred his wife. A prospectus for the Australian Photo Play Company said he directed it. It is considered a lost film.
NSW Bookstall Company was a Sydney company which operated a chain of newsagencies throughout New South Wales. It was notable as a publisher of inexpensive paperback books which were written, illustrated, published and printed in Australia, and sold to commuters at bookstalls in railway stations and elsewhere in New South Wales.
Lalla Rookh was a barque of 372 tons built by Edward Allen in St Helier, Jersey, in "1939", corrected to 1839. Her dimensions were 99.9 × 24.0 × 16.8 ft.
Rev. William Henry Savigny MA was an Australian academic, born in England. His elder son, also named William Henry Savigny was a longtime master at Sydney Grammar School.
The Royal Lyceum was a small theatre in York Street, Sydney founded in 1854, which was redeveloped and renamed many times, finally as the Queen's Theatre, by which name it closed in 1882.
Edgar Ray was an English entrepreneur who launched two magazines in Australia, Melbourne Punch and Sydney Punch. On his return to England, he is credited with founding another, named Touchstone or The New Era.
Eleanor Carey was a stage actress in Australia and America.
William Dind was an hotelier and theatre manager in Sydney, Australia, where he was the longtime lessee of the Royal Victoria, and Prince of Wales theatres. He settled on Sydney's North Shore, where he was active in local government, and he and his son William Forster Dind, aka W. Forster Dind or William Dind jun, ran hotels which were popular with theatrical people.
The Howson family was a show-business dynasty founded in Australia, several of whose members went on to further success in America, London and Europe.
John Philip Deane, generally referred to as J. P. Deane, was an English musician in Australia, the first organist of St David's Church, Hobart. Called "the father of music in Australia" and ".. . one of the most important early colonial musicians in [Van Diemen's Land] and [New South Wales]", his family, whose only tutor was their father, were pioneering musicians in Sydney.
Canowindra; or, The Darky Highwayman and the Settlers’ Homes on the Abercrombie, a tale of New South Wales in 1863 is a 1863 Australian stage play by Charles Edwards about bushrangers. The play was one of the earliest colonial stage plays about bushrangers, and it debuted at the Victoria Theatre in Sydney.
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