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marked the completion of the total amount necessary for the endowment in perpetuity of the "Ada Baker" cot in the institution. Mrs. W. H. Read chairman of the hospital board gave a short address during the interval and said Madame Ada Baker and students had created a record in raising £500 necessary for the endowment of the cot in a little less than five years. She specially thanked Mr. W. Goodman who gave his services to play "Gaspard". A profusion of flowers was presented to the performers Madame Ada Baker was given a basket of flowers from the hospital board and a bouquet of roses and cornflowers by Miss Clare
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that Baker knew of the travel arrangements and her non-attendance resulted in financial and reputational disadvantage. They produced a witness who said that Baker had said it would inconvenience her singing business if she was to go to the fields. The magistrate was unconvinced by Baker's claims of illness and determined that the medical certificate was provided to avoid attending the fields. Hence, the court decided to find against Baker.
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lectures for the alliance: the first in July 1934 was "The
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775:, a couple could get divorced for one of 14 reasons: adultery; desertion; refusal to consummate the marriage; cruelty, rape, sodomy or bestiality; drunkardness or drug-abuse; imprisonment for over three years with no spousal support provided; imprisonment for the death penalty; conviction for attempted spousal murder; refusal to pay maintenance; refusal to decree of
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buildings. During that time she calculates that she has trained many hundreds of singers, many of them now well known. She has staged between 40 and 50 operas. A committee of 60 people, many of there former pupils, who in turn are the parents of present pupils, have arranged a testimonial concert for Madam Baker at the Sydney Town Hall next
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356:, Surry Hills. According to Baker, Hall had married her reluctantly as her brother threatened to "break his head" if he did not. The couple had two children: Beatrice in 1887 and Vera in 1889. Being married and a mother did not stop Baker from continuing as a teacher and performer. In 1887 she had sung in three concerts at Bondi Aquarium (at
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Cecilia Ladles' Choir can fairly claim to be the original "All-Girl" Patriotic Entertainers. Their first performance was given for the war funds in August, 1914, and they have continued working for the patriotic causes since then. They played the Japanese operetta, "Princess
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Australian Music Teachers' Alliance and on 25 November was elected vice-president. She was re-elected to this position in 1934 and 1935. She gave two
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A singer who has sung her way through three wars, Madam Ada Baker, is retiring from a long career as a singer and a teacher of singing, at the age of 83, after being injured in a motor accident, which has affected her health. For more than 40 years Madam Baker has had a singing studio at Paling's
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Miss Baker possesses a voice of rare quality, good range, and sings with the ease and grace of a natural artiste and a cultivated vocalist. Her style is marked by fascinating refinement, her intonation is perfect; her enunciation distinct, and as a ballad singer she bids fair to take place in the
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The final performance of "Les cloches de Corneville" was given by Madame Ada Baker and her students in the Railway Institute on Saturday night. There were four productions of the opera, the proceeds going to different charities Saturday nights performance was for the Rachel Forster Hospital and
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Students of Madame Ada Baker will present the Oriental operetta, Princess Passion Flower, on Wednesday next at St. James' Hall, Phillip-street. Mr. Elved Jenkins, winner of the cup at the Katoomba Eisteddfod, will be one of the principals. The proceeds are in aid of the work of the Sydney Night
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Proctor's operetta, Princess of Poppyland, was again successfully rendered by Madame Ada Baker's Pymble Cecelia Ladies' Choir on Saturday evening last at the Chatswood Town Hall. The entertainment was in aid of the Returned Soldiers' Building Fund, and was largely attended by an appreciative
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I saw Miss Ada Baker yesterday while in Paling's music warehouse. She was looking well, and says she is getting on splendidly. She has a choir of over 60 children under sixteen in training, and the first concert, to be given shortly, is to be partly in aid of the Children's
279:, at the Freemason's Hall, Wagga Wagga alongside Charles Henry Hall, who sang as the Recluse. Later, in 1886, she held a concert, again at the Freemason's Hall, and raised £50 for Wagga hospital and £24/15/6 to the Lord Mayor of Sydney for survivors of the shipwreck of the
779:; insanity; separation for more than five years; and reasonable belief that one spouse had died. Before this, the colony had been forbidden to grant divorces until, in 1852 (and only several years before Baker applied for her divorce), the colonial parliament passed the
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Students of Madama Ada Baker, assisted by an ensemble from the studio of S. Vost Janssen, appeared at St. James's Hall on Saturday evening in a successful presentation of King Prostor's Oriental operetta in a prologue and three acts, "The Rajah's
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At St. James's Hall on Saturday night the students of Madame Ada Baker presented the light opera, "In Old Havana," the proceeds being devoted to the cot fund of the Rachel Forster Hospital. There will be another performance on Wednesday
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Madame Ada Baker's students arranged a gala concert and dance on Saturday night at Paling's concert hall, to celebrate the fact that they had completed the sum of £500 for their cot In the Rachel Forster
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in 1975–if neither party could prove fault in the marriage by the other, then it would not be granted. Baker and Hall never formally divorced although they remained separated. Hall died in 1937 in Perth.
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An interesting lecture-recital on the "Training of Children's Vocies" was given by Madame Ada Baker before members of the Australian Music Teachers' Alliance in Paling's concert hall on Wednesday night.
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said that "Madame Ada Baker's Pymble Cecilia Ladles' Choir can fairly claim to be the original 'All-Girl' Patriotic Entertainers." The choir performed a variety of concerts, including the play
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Mme. Ada Baker directed a repetition of Millard's pretty fantasy "Birds and the Fairies," at St James's Hall on Monday night, In aid of the Royal Alexandra Hospital for Children.
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Sunday ... 3.0 Broadcast from the Lyceum Hall, Pitt Street, Sydney, Pleasant Sunday Afternoon Service. Preacher, Rev. F. H. Raward. Programme arranged by Madame Ada Baker.
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had her made a life governor of the hospital in 1927. From 1925 to 1932 she raised AU£500 for a permanent cot, and in 1932 she raised a further AU£140 for that hospital.
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where she taught singing. Upon returning to Sydney she received further training under Albert Fisher. She debuted to much acclaim at the Promenade Concerts in 1886 at
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A concert, in aid of the Sydney Night Refuge has been arranged by Madame Ada Baker, to take place in St. James's Hall on November 10.
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Alliance. Baker also gave concerts and was a fund-raiser for charities, later becoming a life governor of the
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Refuge, Francis-street, which provided 6418 meals, free of charge, during the Winter months to destitute men.
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1208:"Singer Celebrates her 70th Birthday: Madame Ada Baker's memories"
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1133:"In Divorce: Hall v. Hall, A professional singer's petition"
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1901:. Sydney. 12 November 1922. p. 16.
1747:. Sydney. 14 December 1919. p. 14.
1091:"The Saturday Evening Promenade Concert"
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1169:""Sinbad the Sailor" at her Majesty's"
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2282:. Sydney. 30 October 1935. p. 8.
2222:"Australian Music Teachers' Alliance"
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2009:. Sydney. 15 August 1910. p. 3.
1988:. Sydney. 18 April 1939. p. 2.
1838:"Callan Park Hospital Entertainment"
1608:"Miss Ada Baker, teacher of singing"
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1273:. Sydney. 25 August 1894. p. 2.
839:Library of Congress Copyright Office
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2375:"Grandmothers' Victory Bond League"
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2438:. Sydney. 25 July 1949. p. 4.
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1650:. Sydney. 22 June 1908. p. 8.
1531:"Nicholson and Co., George-Street"
1464:. Perth. 25 April 1908. p. 7.
1237:. Sydney. 4 July 1939. p. 13.
1015:. Sydney. 24 July 1886. p. 1.
966:Christian, Mark (September 2013),
888:Australian Dictionary of Biography
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1686:. Sydney. 9 May 1908. p. 17.
1626:"Miss Ada Baker's Juvenile Choir"
1555:. Perth. 26 June 1908. p. 4.
1335:"The Matrimonial Causes Act 1959"
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2021:"Choral Association Eisteddfod"
1404:"Advertisement: Miss Ada Baker"
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1097:. 13 December 1886. p. 8.
893:Australian National University
777:restitution of conjugal rights
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1339:Australian Women’s Timeline
1299:"The Embezzlement Epidemic"
940:"Grandmothers Support Loan"
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2258:"Music Teachers' Alliance"
1856:"Sydney Mission to Seaman"
1799:"Protestant Orphan's Fair"
1584:Egeria (30 January 1908).
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2380:Blue Mountains Advertiser
2358:The Sydney Morning Herald
2319:The Sydney Morning Herald
2298:The Sydney Morning Herald
2280:The Sydney Morning Herald
2262:The Sydney Morning Herald
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2144:The Sydney Morning Herald
2126:The Sydney Morning Herald
2105:The Sydney Morning Herald
2007:The Sydney Morning Herald
1964:The Sydney Morning Herald
1942:The Sydney Morning Herald
1921:The Sydney Morning Herald
1781:"Sydney Hospital Concert"
1723:The Sydney Morning Herald
1684:The Sydney Morning Herald
1630:The Sydney Morning Herald
1612:The Sydney Morning Herald
1571:The Sydney Morning Herald
1498:The Sydney Morning Herald
1271:The Sydney Morning Herald
1253:The Sydney Morning Herald
1212:The Sydney Morning Herald
1095:The Sydney Morning Herald
787:in 1953—that allowed the
754:The Sydney Morning Herald
742:The Sydney Morning Herald
730:The Sydney Morning Herald
595:Les Cloches de Corneville
522:The Princess of Poppyland
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1895:"Tea-Table Gossip"
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