
Ticket to the concert held in the arcade at Rouse Hill House, 28 April 1899. Rouse Hill House & Farm Collection, Sydney Living Museums.
If these walls could talk: Rouse Hill House & Farm
Notes
- 1. The geisha: a story of a tea house, composed by Sidney Jones, libretto by Owen Hall, lyrics by Harry Greenbank. First performed in London, 1896.
- 2. Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 13 May 1899.
- 3. ‘Vishti’ (or ‘Vashti’), the wife of Persian King Ahasuerus, was deposed for refusing to show her beauty to the king’s guests (‘The book of Esther’, Old Testament).
- 4. Windsor and Richmond Gazette, 13 May 1899.

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