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    Harry Rickards (4 December 1843 – 13 October 1911), born Henry Benjamin Leete, was an English-born baritone, comedian and theatre owner, most active in...
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    "Bushmen’s Contingent". In 1902 Harry Rickards bought Carthona after selling Craignest. Harry Rickards whose real name was Harry Benjamin Leete was born in...
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    management of the British-born vaudeville performer and impresario Harry Rickards. She and Rickards married in 1880, after which she had a career as a musical...
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  • actor-manager Harry Rickards took over the lease of the Opera House and made it the Melbourne headquarters of his growing business. Rickards presented a...
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  • Rickards is an English surname. It is closely related to the surnames Rickard and Richards. Rickards may refer to: Ashley Rickards, American actor Barrie...
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    boxes. The Garrick Theatre opened on 22 December 1890. In February 1893 Harry Rickards, the vaudeville showman, took over the lease of the Garrick Theatre...
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    appearances in London in 1892. In 1903, Vulcana and Atlas were engaged by Harry Rickards and toured Australia. Atlas, a true showman of his times, greatly exaggerated...
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  • Quirk Jordan Raskopoulos Carol Raye Roy Rene ("Mo") Craig Reucassel Harry Rickards Gina Riley Glenn Robbins Victoria Roberts Mikey Robins Drew Rokos Alex...
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    Point was 3,977. Harry Rickards, (1843–1911) English-Australian vaudeville artist and theatre impresario, and his wife Kate Rickards, former trapeze artist...
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    House in Sydney in 1892. By 1909 Rickards had 532 people on the payroll. The Circuit was taken over after Rickards' death in 1911 by a succession of...
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    renamed it the New Tivoli Theatre. This name was in recognition of Harry Rickards's Tivoli Theatre at 79-83 Castlereigh Street, formerly called the Garrick...
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    the first films projected to a paying audience in Australia were at Harry Rickards' Melbourne Opera House (later known as the Tivoli Theatre). The film...
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    that acquired the Harry Rickards Tivoli theatre chain, but was careful to retain Rickards' style (and company name: Harry Rickards Tivoli Theatres Ltd...
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    fight at the Polo Grounds. In September 1924, Rickard promoted the fight between Luis Ángel Firpo and Harry Willis in Jersey City. The fight was attended...
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    headline star of Harry Rickards and Enderby Jackson's music hall touring company. Watson parted company acrimoniously from Rickards to start up her own...
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    toured China and India in the early 1890s. Back in Sydney she joined Harry Rickards' vaudeville circuit. The company toured Western Australia in 1898, where...
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  • author and religious figure Bernard Leete, aviator Bill Leete, sportsman Harry Rickards, performer whose birth name was Henry Leete William Leete, colonial-era...
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    Lloyd and Hurley set sail for a tour of Australia in 1901, opening at Harry Rickards Opera House in Melbourne on 18 May with their own version of "The Lambeth...
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    associations reads like a Who's Who of late 19th century Australian theatre: Harry Rickards, George Darrell, Alfred Dampier, Richard Stewart, William Saurin Lyster...
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    Australia touring from 1898 to 1899 in the Tivoli circuit established by Harry Rickards. He also toured the United States twice, each of 36 weeks duration....
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    theatre was further renovated and altered in 1907. Later lessees included Harry Rickards and William Anderson. In 1915 Ben Fuller management bought the freehold...
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    time was spent studying the famous English music-hall comedians at Harry Rickards' Opera House. Unsuccessful in Melbourne, he appeared at Brennan's National...
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  • vaudeville acts, in competition with the more expensive offerings of Harry Rickards' Tivoli circuit. In 1915 the Fuller brothers bought out Brennan's interest...
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  • of Kate and Harry Rickards, prominent figures in the theatrical life of Australia. He was educated at Wychwood School, Bournemouth. Harry moved to Australia...
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  • conceived and initially produced by Jack Haskell and Hugh D. McIntosh, for Harry Rickards' Tivoli chain of theatres, commencing at the Tivoli Theatre, Sydney...
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  • His other successes included "The Ship Went Down" (1898, performed by Harry Rickards), "For Months and Months and Months" (1909, performed by Jack Smiles)...
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    Australia shortly afterwards by Hugh D. McIntosh, General Manager of Harry Rickards Tivoli Theatres Ltd. Pearce made her return to the Australian stage...
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    proprietor Tommy Hudson, and renamed Hudson's Bijou in 1892. In 1900, Harry Rickards purchased the building and reopened it as the Tivoli Theatre, which...
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  • joined Henry Bracy's opera company, before having a spell touring with Harry Rickards. In 1899 he married popular dancer Robina "Beanie" Galletly (1881–1935)...
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    Retail Park and Westwood Gateway Retail Park. Entertainers Kate and Harry Rickards had a country home called "Westwood Lodge" in the village in the early...
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