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Minnie Hooper
Fanny Emily Mary Hooper, known as Minnie Hooper (1876 – 1964), was an Australian dance instructor and ballet mistress. She has been credited, with Jennie Brenan and Minnie Everett, with maintaining the high standard of Australian dance and ballet in the 1920s, between the reigns of Emilia Pasta and Anna Pavlova. She had a long series of contracts with J. C. Williamson's and conducted classes at her dance studio on Pitt Street, Sydney. History Hooper was born in Carlton, Victoria, third daughter of George Charles Beech Hooper (April 1846 – 23 June 1920) and Emma Jane Hooper, née Taylor, (1847 – 8 July 1931), of "Strathmore", Grey Street, East Melbourne, Victoria, later of 18 Rosstown Road, Carnegie, Victoria/East Caulfield, Victoria. In 1894 she was appearing in shows as a member of the "Parisian Pas de Quatre" with Annie Cobb, Lena Cassellis, and Alice Mitchell. She appeared as a harlequin in the 1896 Christmas pantomime at Her Majesty's Theatre, Sydney, choreographed by Em ...
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Jennie Brenan
Jennie Frances Brenan (1877–1964) was an Australian dancer and dancing teacher. She was encouraged to train as a dancer by J. C. Williamson and in time she opened a dancing school which supplied his dancers and after 1910 those required by the J. C. Williamson's company. Life Brenan was born in 1877 in the Melbourne suburb of Carlton, Victoria. Brenan's mother was Annie Bryce Cooper (born Livingston in Scotland in Edinburgh) and her father James Joseph Brenan was an estate agent born in Ireland. She was educated at a Catholic Ladies College (Catholic Ladies College, Eltham, the Catholic Ladies College was not founded until 1902). However her important education was in dance. She was encouraged in her ambitions by the impressario J. C. Williamson who was a friend of the family. He encouraged her to train with Mary Weir who was one of his dancers and dancing teachers (Weir became Williamson's second wife in 1899). Her wide-ranging training continued with ballet taught by Rosalie Ph ...
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Williamson And Musgrove
George Musgrove (21 January 1854 – 21 January 1916) was an English-born Australian theatre producer. Early life Musgrove was born at Surbiton, England, the son of Thomas John Watson Musgrove, an accountant, and his wife, Fanny Hodson, an actress and sister of Georgiana Rosa Hodson who married William Saurin Lyster. Fanny's brother was composer, singer and comedian George Alfred Hodson, the father of Henrietta Hodson, a well known London actress, who married Henry Labouchère. Musgrove was brought to Australia by his parents in January 1863 when he was nine years old. He was educated at the Flinders School, Geelong, Victoria, and on leaving school was given a position as treasurer by Lyster. Musgrave married Emily Fisk Knight at All Saints Church, St Kilda, on 1 August 1874. Opera and theatre career Musgrove visited England in 1879, a time when Gilbert and Sullivan had commenced their operas. At the end of 1880, Musgrove produced ''La fille du tambour-major'' at the Opera ...
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1964 Deaths
Events January * January 1 – The Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland is dissolved. * January 5 - In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem. * January 6 – A British firm, the Leyland Motors, Leyland Motor Corp., announces the sale of 450 buses to the Cuban government, challenging the United States blockade of Cuba. * January 9 – ''Martyrs' Day (Panama), Martyrs' Day'': Armed clashes between United States troops and Panamanian civilians in the Panama Canal Zone precipitate a major international crisis, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and 4 U.S. soldiers. * January 11 – United States Surgeon General Luther Terry reports that smoking may be hazardous to one's health (the first such statement from the U.S. government). * January 12 ** Zanzibar Revolution: The predominantly Arab government of Zanzibar is overthrown b ...
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1876 Births
Events January–March * January 1 ** The Reichsbank opens in Berlin. ** The Bass Brewery Red Triangle becomes the world's first registered trademark symbol. * February 2 – The National League of Professional Base Ball Clubs is formed at a meeting in Chicago; it replaces the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. Morgan Bulkeley of the Hartford Dark Blues is selected as the league's first president. * February 2 – Third Carlist War – Battle of Montejurra: The new commander General Fernando Primo de Rivera marches on the remaining Carlist stronghold at Estella, where he meets a force of about 1,600 men under General Carlos Calderón, at nearby Montejurra. After a courageous and costly defence, Calderón is forced to withdraw. * February 14 – Alexander Graham Bell applies for a patent for the telephone, as does Elisha Gray. * February 19 – Third Carlist War: Government troops under General Primo de Rivera drive throu ...
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Melbourne Punch
''Melbourne Punch'' (from 1900, simply titled ''Punch'') was an Australian illustrated magazine founded by Edgar Ray and Frederick Sinnett, and published from August 1855 to December 1925. The magazine was modelled closely on ''Punch'' of London which was founded fifteen years earlier.Lindesay, Vane ''The Inked-In Image'' Heinemann Melbourne 1970 A similar magazine, ''Adelaide Punch'', was published in South Australia from 1878 to 1884. History Ray and Sinnett published the magazine 1855–1883, followed by Alex McKinley 1883. Staff artists included Nicholas Chevalier 1855–1861, Tom Carrington 1866–1887, J. H. Leonard 1886 – c. 1891. Contributing artists included J. C. Bancks, Luther Bradley, O. R. Campbell, George Dancey, Tom Carrington, Ambrose Dyson and his brother Will Dyson, S. T. Gill, Samuel Calvert, Alex Gurney, Hal Gye, Percy Leason, Emile Mercier, Alex Sass, Montague Scott, Alf Vincent and Cecil "Unk" White.McCullough, Alan ''Encyclopedia of Austral ...
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Coogee, New South Wales
Coogee is a beachside suburb of local government area City of Randwick 8 kilometres south-east of the Sydney central business district, in the state of New South Wales, Australia. It is typically associated as being part of the Eastern Suburbs region. The Tasman Sea and Coogee Bay along with Coogee Beach lie towards the eastern side of the suburb. The boundaries of Coogee are formed mainly by Clovelly Road, Carrington Road and Rainbow Street, with arbitrary lines drawn to join these thoroughfares to the coast in the north-east and south-east corners. History Aboriginal The name Coogee is said to be taken from a local Aboriginal word ''koojah'' which means "smelly place". Another version is ''koo-chai'' or ''koo-jah'', both of which mean "the smell of the seaweed drying" in the Bidigal language, or "stinking seaweed", a reference to the smell of decaying kelp washed up on the beach. Early visitors to the area, from the 1820s onwards, were never able to confirm exactl ...
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Influenza Pandemic
An influenza pandemic is an epidemic of an influenza virus that spreads across a large region (either multiple continents or worldwide) and infects a large proportion of the population. There have been six major influenza epidemics in the last 140 years, with the 1918 flu pandemic being the most severe; this is estimated to have been responsible for the deaths of 50–100 million people. The most recent, the 2009 swine flu pandemic, resulted in under 300,000 deaths and is considered relatively mild. These pandemics occur irregularly. Influenza pandemics occur when a new strain of the influenza virus is transmitted to humans from another animal species. Species that are thought to be important in the emergence of new human strains are pigs, chickens and ducks. These novel strains are unaffected by any immunity people may have to older strains of human influenza and can therefore spread extremely rapidly and infect very large numbers of people. Influenza A viruses can occasionall ...
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Kilmore Free Press
Kilmore may refer to: Places Australia *Electoral district of Kilmore, Victoria *Kilmore, Victoria, Australia, a town *Shire of Kilmore, a local government area north of Melbourne Ireland *Kilmore, County Cavan, a parish *Kilmore, County Wexford, a village *Kilmore, Dublin, a suburb *Kilmore Quay, County Wexford, a fishing village Northern Ireland * Kilmore, County Antrim, a townland in County Antrim *Kilmore, County Armagh, a village and townland in County Armagh *Kilmore, County Down, a village, parish and townland Other places *Kilmore, Skye, Scotland *Kilmore, Indiana, United States People *Chris Kilmore (born 1973), American musician and DJ *Kevin Kilmore (born 1959), English footballer Other uses *Bishop of Kilmore *Diocese of Kilmore (other) See also * Kilmore East, Victoria, Australia * Kilmore West Kilmore West () is a locality within Dublin 5, situated on Dublin's Northside, Ireland. Located in the Dublin 5 district, it borders Santry, Beaumont, ...
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John Crook (conductor)
John Francis Crook (1847 – 10 November 1922) was an English conductor who composed music for comic opera and musicals in the late 18th- and early 19th-centuries. Crook was born in Marylebone, London, and had a privileged musical education, as protégé of an aunt and uncle, the well-known artistes Madame De Belleville and violinist Antonio James Oury. At Norwich he was taught harmony and counterpoint by one James Hill, and was appointed organist to St John's Catholic Chapel. After completing his studies at the Royal Academy of Music, London, he joined a grand opera company as violinist, and was soon promoted to chorus master and pianist at rehearsals. He succeeded both Alfred Cellier (1871 to 1875) and Frederic Stanislaus as conductor and musical director at the Prince's Theatre, Manchester; they were collectively known as the "Manchester Three". It was here he wrote ''The King's Dragoons''. He wrote the comic opera ''Merry Mignon'' and the musical comedy ''Larks''. His star ...
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Williamstown, Victoria
Williamstown is a suburb in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, south-west of Melbourne's Central Business District, located within the City of Hobsons Bay local government area. Williamstown recorded a population of 14,407 at the 2021 census. History Indigenous history Indigenous Australians occupied the area long before maritime activities shaped the modern historical development of Williamstown. The Yalukit-willam clan of the Kulin nation were the first people to call Hobsons Bay home. They roamed the thin coastal strip from Werribee to Williamstown/Hobsons Bay. The Yalukit-willam were one clan in a language group known as the Bunurong, which included six clans along the coast from the Werribee River, across the Mornington Peninsula, Western Port Bay to Wilsons Promontory. The Yalukit-willam referred to the Williamstown area as "koort-boork-boork", a term meaning "clump of she-oaks", literally "She-oak, She-oak, many." The head of the Yalikut-willam tribe at the time of the ...
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The Lady Slavey
''The Lady Slavey'' was an 1894 operetta in two acts with a score by John Crook (with contributions by Henry Wood and Letty Lind, among others), to a libretto by George Dance (with additional lyrics by Adrian Ross, among others) which opened at the Royal Avenue Theatre in London on 20 October 1894 and which featured May Yohé and Jennie McNulty.''The Lady Slavey''
British Musical Theatre website at the Gilbert and Sullivan Archive. Retrieved March 25, 2020
After a major rewrite to make it more suitable for American audiences it opened at the Casino Theatre on Broadway on 3 February 1896 where it ran for 128 performances with additional lyrics by
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George Dance (dramatist)
Sir George Dance (14 October 1857 – 22 October 1932) was an English lyricist and librettist in the 1890s and an important theatrical manager at the beginning of the 20th century. Dance wrote several hit musicals, including ''The Gay Parisienne'' (1894) and '' A Chinese Honeymoon'' (1899), one of the most successful musicals in history until the 1940s. In the early years of the 20th century, he became one of the most successful theatrical managers in the United Kingdom, managing many productions both on the West End and on tour. Biography Dance was born in Nottingham, England, the son of Isaac Dance (1824–1880) a pipe maker. Dance was educated at the National School, Sneinton, Nottingham. He married Grace Spong in 1898, and the couple produced two sons (Eric and James) and a daughter (Phyllis, later Mrs. Bertram Merritt). His son Eric, who died in a Japanese prison camp during World War II, contributed a large part of his inheritence towards the building of the Oxford Pla ...
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