Edison's latest wonder, the Animatoscope, will be exhibited at the Theatre Royal on Saturday Night, the 21st August, at 9 p.m., also the 23rd, 26th and 28th. The programme presented before Sir Claude MacDonald at the British Legation, Peking, will be repeated. Tickets may be had at Messrs.…
Animatoscope will be exhibited at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night, August 21st, at 9 p.m. and on Monday, Thursday and Saturday next. The programme presented before Sir Claude MacDonald at the British Legation, Peking, will be repeated. Tickets may be had at Messrs. Robinson & Co.'s…
Grand opening night on Tuesday, the 30th October. Grand exhibitions of animated pictures of the Transvaal War, the Boer Battery Captured by British.
The programme submitted at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night by Barnes' Twentieth Century Entertainers got a remarkably good reception from a full house. Performances by Harry Gray, Madame Freed and Miss Rosa Barnes. The biographic pictures of the Dreyfus trial were very good indeed, but…
Sadanji, the greatest living Japanese actor, is seriously ill.
We still await authentic 'Views of interiors' from Lama. Perhaps ultimately cinematograph pictures will come, but the short occupation as far has not gratified our curiosity much. A humorist at the British Association meeting propounded a new theory of our expedition into Tibet. The…
Lam Yau, a coolie, was discovered by an actor in the 'Ko Shing Theatre' under his bed with a bundle of clothing. He raised the alarm and the defendant ran into a closet where he was arrested. He stated that he went there to sleep as, being a newcomer, he was strange to the locality.…
The Bandmanns only stopped one night to perform. They were forced to perform in the Chinese Theatre in King Street, but the audience were enthusiastic. All the Penang ladies are longing for a fancy dress ball due to the charisma of the actors Harry Cole who played Jim Cheese.
Monday, January 29 – Soon after the night performance at the Tai Ping theatre was over, a ticket collector heard a great noise coming from the actors' quarters. He went thither and saw three of them fighting, The fight originated over a game of cards. Mr. Haseland fined them each $3.
The West Point Police made a raid on the basement of the Ko Shing Theatre last night, where they suspected gambling, an unlawful game of pai kow, was going on. 41 Chinese were capture and 37 of them who gave their occupation as actors. They were arrested and brought before Mr F.A. Hazeland, at…
Thursday, April 5 – Sergt. Gordon raided the Ko Shing Theatre early yesterday morning, and brought 41 gamblers before Mr. Hareland. Most of the gamblers were actors. His worship imposed a fine of $50 on the first defendant and the rest $2 each. Money and gambling implements were forfeited.
The show of 'moving pictures' at the City Hall on Saturday night drew a fairly large and appreciative audience, and the leading 'actors' in the Britt Nelson night weight contest. The pictures are clear and steady, and certainly make up a unique performance which will attract…
A fresh method of entertaining passengers on a long voyage is to be tried by an Italian steamship company. British ship owners have been approached time after time to install a bioscope, but they have turned a deaf ear to every project, and it had been left to a foreign company to initiate a new…
An unemployed actor got fifteen days' hard labour for stealing from the Chung Hing Theatre, a jacket and a pair of shoes.
The Royal party had a very busy day with the return of Duke and Duchess, who had to carry out everyone waited at the Ko Shing Theatre for the tea party arranged by the Chinese community in Ko Shing Theatre. The theatre was beautifully decorated with ferns and flowers. The stage looked like a…
Canton, 17th October – On the 15th instant, when a theatrical performance was going on in a theatre in the market town of Kut Lee, in the district of Hamhoi, a disturbance arose between some of the spectators, with the result that one man was killed and another wounded by shots fired from…
The Victoria Cinematograph advertises a special attraction this evening in the shape of a splendid film, 3,000 feet long, illustrating the manoeuvering of the British Fleet. The film is said to be really wonderful.
The Grand Naval Battle' or 'Manoeuvring of the British Fleet.' A 8000-feet magnificent film. New songs by the Great Fregolini and other artists. Don't forget the address: Des Voeux Road, Pottinger Street.
Several French playwrights have been commissioned to write short plays and sketches for the cinematograph. These plays will be acted by actors and actresses of repute in front of the instrument and then reproduced in all parts of the world.
An actor of Po Hing Theatre was on charge of disorderly behaviour and assault.