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Issue Details: First known date: 1838... vol. 4 no. 252 24 March 1838 of Commercial Journal and Advertiser est. 1835 Commercial Journal and Advertiser
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Contents

* Contents derived from the , 1838 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
T. Brennand, single work advertisement

An advertisement for T. Brennand, Bookseller, Stationer, Bookbinder, and Account Book Manufacturer.

T. Brennand also advises subscribers that he has discontinued his Circulating Library. Persons who had books still on loan from the Library are told that 'a list of persons so detaining [books] will be published on the first day of April'.

 (p. 1)
Engraving Printing &c, single work advertisement

Advertisement for 'Copper-plate Engraving and Printing'

 (p. 1)
Theatre Royal, Sydney : The Lady and the Devil &c., single work advertisement

Advertisement for performance at the Theate Royal, Sydney on 24 March 1838 of: ‘the Farce in one Act, entitled The Lady and the Devil’ [William Dimond, 1820];’A Favorite Song [performed] by Mrs [Anne] Clarke’; ‘To conclude with (by particular desire), the Comedy in three Acts, called,Married Life’ [John Baldwin Buckstone, 1834].

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Royal Victoria Theatre : Opening Performance, single work advertisement

An advertisement for the opening of the new Royal Victoria Theatre and a performance of William Shakespeare's 'Tragedy in five Acts, entitled Othello', the 'popular Song, “Paddy’s Wedding”’ and 'the laughable Farce, called The Middy Ashore', at the Royal Victoria Theatre on 26 March 1838.

The advertisement publishes the names of the actors against the characters for each of the plays and that the theatre is now known as the Royal Victoria Theatre. Performance days and times and prices are advertised.

The version of the advertisement published in the Commercial Journal and Advertiser includes the names of the orchestra leader and principal flautist, the instruments of the orchestra, the names of the mechanists (stage workers) and scene painters and the wardrobe mistress.

'Previous to the rise of the Curtain, an Appropriate Address, by Mr Spencer' (Albert Spencer) is advertised in the Commercial Journal.

 (p. 1)
Theatre Royal, George-street, single work column

A report on the contractual obligations of the actors employed in Sarah Levey's Theatre Royal and those employed, or hoping to be employed, in Joseph Wyatt's new Sydney theatre (the Royal Victoria Theatre). The report, sub headed 'Ratting', is in reply to a column in the Sydney Gazette published on 22 March. The Commercial Journal's report is in Sarah Levey's favour. The report includes a brief review of the performance of the plays Charles the Second; or, The Merry Monarch and Tower of Nesle; or, The Chamber of Death at the Theatre Royal, Sydney on 22 March 1838.

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Royal Victoria Theatre, single work single work column

A description of and comment on the imminent opening of Joseph Wyatt's new Royal Victoria Theatre in Sydney in 1838.

 (p. 2)
The Close of a Fine Day, L. De Mirbel , extract biography (p. 4)
Jean-Francois Las Bas Bleus, or Blue Stocking John, Jean Charles Emmanuel Nodier , single work short story (p. 4)
Love and Pride, Theodore Edward Hook , single work short story (p. 4)
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