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Event title:

Benefit Ball given by the Prague [Civil] Sharpshooters Corps

Venue: Apollo Hall (Apollo Hall)

Parent Event:
Musical entertainment given by unspecified ensemble

Event type: Popular social musical and dance events

Date: 17/08/1851 pm (evening)

Season: Summer

Keywords: Public performance events, Charitable institutions, Benefit and charitable events

Beneficiary: Institute for Infants
Benefactor: Orchestra of the Prague Civil Sharpshooters Corps

Programme unspecified:

General participants:

Orchestra of the Prague Civil Sharpshooters Corps: participating ensemble

Commentary:

Lumír 7/8/1851 announced that ‘On 17th August the band of Sharpshooters will be arranging a great dance beseda, the clear profit from which will be given to the Infant’s School [Opatrovna].’ No further details of the event were given by the source.

Bohemia 19/8/1851 reported that on ‘Sunday evening - on the eve of the Birthday of the His Majesty the Emperor Franz Joseph - the Civil Sharphooters Corps arranged in the Apollo Hall an elegant ball, the profit from which is destined to an Institute for Infants.’

Summary of sources:

Lumír (07/08/1851)
Bohemia (19/08/1851)