The Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd, forward a very interesting booklet descriptive of the Cinematograph in its relation to Science, Education and matters of state. The enterprise shown and the merit of the contents are commendable.
Charles Nugent sued Auguste Daufresne and claimed $1000 balance due as money paid for and on behalf of the defendant. The court continues to deal with the case. The defendant said he had nothing to do with the Union Commerical Company. The witness had an agreement with the Hongkong Cinematograph…
The hearing was continued of the action in which Charles Nuget [sic] sued Auguste Daufresne. The defendant said that two accounts were paid by the Union Commercial.
A single picture can be good likeness in a rare case. M. Reynaud invented a toy, known as the 'praxinoscope,' to imitate 'moving picture' as the cinematograph would be too expensive and too unwieldy to show off a collection of one's friends' portraits. The…
Tonight & every night, 9 to 11 p.m.; Performers: Miss Ruby Ray, 'Eugene Mack'. The best pictures in town. Coming performance by Miss Helene Thorne and Geo. Edwarde's Musical Comedy Co.; Price details included
(No. 2 Zetland Street, Corner of Hoorain-Ali's, near Clock Tower) Tonight and every evening. 9 to 11 p.m. Miss Ruby Ray, singer and dancer. 'Eugene Mack,' typical singer and picture songs. Saturday, 15th May: First appearance of Miss Helene Thorne (Late Geo. Edwardes' Musical…
The pictures at the Alexandra Cinematograph, including those of the Russian cavalry and the Cossacks, are varied and of much interest. Performances by Miss Ruby Ray, Eugene Mack and Helene Thorne.
(No. 2 Zetland Street, Corner of Hoorain-Ali's, near Clock Tower) Tonight and every evening. 9 to 11 p.m. Miss Helene Thorne (Late Geo. Edwardes' Musical Comedy Co.). Miss Ruby Ray, singer and dancer. 'Eugene Mack,' typical singer and picture songs. Every Saturday at 4 p.m.…
Tonight & every night, 9 to 11 p.m.; Performers: Miss Helene Thorne from late Geo. Edwarde's Musical Comedy Co., Miss Ruby Ray, 'Eugene Mack'. The best pictures in town; Price details included
(No. 2 Zetland Street, Corner of Hoorain-Ali's, near Clock Tower) Tonight and every evening. 9 to 11 p.m. Miss Helene Thorne (Late Geo. Edwardes' Musical Comedy Co.). Miss Ruby Ray, singer and dancer. 'Eugene Mack,' picture songs. Saturday at 5 p.m., special matinee for…
Tonight & every night, 9 to 11 p.m.; Performers: Miss Helene Thorne from late Geo. Edwarde's Musical Comedy Co., Miss Ruby Ray, Eugene Mack. The best pictures in town; Price details included
Full change of programme will be made tonight at the Bijou and Victoria cinematograph theatres. At the Bijou, Miss Violet Bonetta and Bob Stephenson will present a new sketch. Among the pictures worthy of mention are 'Charles Daix,' 'Ariam and his dog' and 'In a moment…
At the Victoria Theatre last evening, the proprietors delighted a full house by exhibiting that magnificent film, 'A Tale of Two Cities.' The film was in three sections, and measured altogether something like 4000ft. This particular masterpiece of Dickens' was greatly appreciated…
Brilliant pictures at 9:15 p.m. include 'An Animated Armchair,' 'The Deliverance,' 'Courtship Trials,' 'French Army Cavalry,' 'Wiffle's Best Friend,' etc. Performance by Miss Vera Ferrace.
Special attractions at 9:15 p.m. from Saturday, 28th October. Comedy, The 'Liberte' Catastrofes: 'Neighbours' by Max Linder, 'Back to the Prairie,' 'The Traitor,' 'Trying to Grow,' 'Jane's Sleeping Sickness,' 'Champion Club…
Special photoplays this week, 'Satan's Defeat' [sic] every evening at 6.15 p.m: from Robert le. Diable, a beautiful coloured art film, showing how Satan gets defeated and 'The Cross Triumphs'; 'The Storm,' 'Arresting the Thief,' 'Wiffles Sad…
Tonight the patrons of the Bijou are promised a special treat, when the management screens Dickens' 'David Copperfield.' This is the first 'Britannia' film to be exhibited in Hongkong.
Mr R. H. Stephenson, the popular manager of the Bijou, Scenic Theatre, has secured an interesting new programme of pictures which will be shown tonight. They include 'The Opium Smoker,' which is a most realistic nautical drama, as well as several comic films, include 'The Aligator…
Hongkong has had little cause to complain of lack of entertainment for many months past, yet through it all the Victoria and Bijou Cinemagraphs have maintained their own as attractions and seldom fail to draw large houses. At the Victoria, the Quealys made success, while the sisters Price were…
There appear the so-called 'talking pictures,' a synchronization of the cinematograph and the phonograph by electrical science, are already in craze in London and Paris. So premising have been these reproductions of plays and operas that two prominent producers, Charles Frohman and…