Deadwood Dick & the Picture Show Panic – ep. 5

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Wherein we learn who to blame for the perennial naughtiness of boys.

Argus (Melbourne), 10 November 1914, p. 8, col. 2
Read it in full here

Titles in the Deadwood Dick Library – ‘Issued Every Wednesday. Price 5 cents’
From the ‘Nickels and Dimes’ collection of Northern Illinois University Libraries
– click here to access the whole collection.

Here we see Deadwood Dick’s distinctive ‘vail’, ‘through the eye-holes of which
there gleamed a pair of orbs of piercing intensity’.
This cover features in Haverford College (Pennsylvania) Library’s online exhibition,
The Second Generation: Boy Heroes in American Dime Novels, 1860-1910.
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Here we have Dick from a later series, wearing a modified mask more fitting for a superhero.
(From the ‘Nickels and Dimes’ collection of Northern Illinois University Libraries)
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Wild Edna, the Girl Brigand
(from the ‘Nickels and Dimes’ collection of Northern Illinois University Libraries)
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Le vue splendide de le châlet Kosciusco tray bang! [ersatz French for tres bien]
Un audience patrètique [patriotique]
‘Why should scenic pictures be picked out as specially suitable, unless dullness is presupposed as
necessarily just the thing for Sunday evening? Can the Acting-Chief Secretary seriously hold that
a picture of Kosciusko or Katoomba or Mullengudgerie or Stockinbingal encourages a devotional
frame of mind?’
The World’s News (Sydney) on the restricting of Sunday picture shows – 10 June 1911, p. 15, col. 3
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What’s on in Gympie – Gympie Times (Qld), 3 January 1911, p. 2
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A typical picture-show program from 1911 – Age (Melbourne), 3 January 1911, p. 10, col. 6
Read it up close here, along with adverts for other picture shows, and for the vaudeville shows
and waxworks that were on the brink of redundancy.

Click here for an entire page of moving picture previews and gossip from the Sunday Times (Sydney) in 1914.