Report of the Committee of Management to be submitted to the annual meeting of shareholders in and subscribers to the City Hall. There is a detailed description of the theatre's building and some of the performances. For instance, during the twelve months from 1st July, 1896, to 30th June…
The same capital programme was presented last night, at the Theatre Royal, by Barnes' Twentieth Century Entertainers. A change of fare is to be provided tonight, which, no doubt, will meet with the marked appreciation that has characterised the first two performances of the Company in this…
A large audience marked on Wednesday evening Hongkong's appreciation of the superior programme offered by the Empire Theatre. They were treated to a surprise not on the bill, in the presentation by Miss Addie Leigh, in response to a special request, of Paolo Tosti's 'Goodbye,…
The 'standing room only' stage had been reached at the Empire Theatre when Miss Addie Leigh made her bow to the audience on Saturday evening in the 'star' number of the programme. Tosti's 'Good-bye,' and this and her 'Annie Laurie,' repeated by…
A case was called on for hearing at Madras, in which Mr. K. A Mirza, agent to the firm of Madan and Co., Calcutta, a supplier of films to the Empire Cinema, charged Sir Mark Anton, Mrs. Wadia, and 3 other assistants of Sir Mark Anton. Mirza complained that these people had used criminal forces…
Paris, August 20 – The Russian Minister of the Interior has finally consented to allow picture theatres to exhibit films depicting members of the Imperial Family, under restrictions suitable to their dignity. Such films are not to be shown to the accompaniment of music. They are to be marked in…
The long-expected Giants and White Sox arrived yesterday morning. It was announced on Saturday by wireless from the steamer that the teams would play an exhibition game in Hongkong and the Hongkong Football Club placed their grounds at the disposal of the visitors. The players were not a little…
Antony and Cleopatra' will be shown at the Victoria Theatre. The production gives a complete outline of the story of Mark Anthony and the whole making presents a thrilling, dramatic picture.
Films screenings including 'A Single Maid', 'That Infernal Pig', 'A Nephew from the Skies' and 'Suicidal Persuasion'; Screening of Pathe's British and American Weekly; Coming film: 'The Betraying Mark'
Some exceedingly comic & interesting pictures from Aug 12 to 14, including 'A Single Maid,' 'That Infernal Pig,' 'A Nephew from the Skies,' 'Suicidal Persuasion,' and Pathe's British & American Weekly; the great picture 'The Betraying…
Film screening of 'The Batraying Mark' (3 parts, 5,000 ft); Screening of Pathe's American Weekly and Pathe's Cartoon
The Bijou is showing 'The Betraying Mark' and the Victoria's feature is 'The Secret Marriage.' The Victoria opens tonight under new management. Messers Ramos, Ramos and Company leased their interests in order to more carefully attend to their new venture in Shanghai, an…
For 4 nights only, the great magnificent drama 'The Betraying Mark'; also Pathe's American Weekly and Pathe's Cartoon.
The new programme at the Bijou Theatre drew a good attendance of Europeans and Chinese last night. The Pathe Gazette and Pathe Cartoons are good and the three-part melodramatic film entitled 'The Betraying Mark' held the interest of all the spectators from start to finish. Tonight and…
The captain of a German schooner that has reached New Zealand reports that moving pictures are having a very marked influence on the simple and impressionable minds of South Sea Islanders. The sensational dramas in picture entertainments are supplying the stimulus that sends the half-civilised…
According to the Christchurch correspondent of the Central News, moving pictures are having a marked influence on South Sea Islanders and American melodramatic films are fostering a dangerous spirit among them by sending them back to the days of riot and murder.
Scenes marked by great enthusiasm were witnessed at the Victoria Theatre last night. The programme provided by the management was highly appreciated.
Italians are making their own moving pictures with marked success that foreign films are in little demand.
Films screenings including 'Adventures of Farandoul' (3rd Series, 3 parts), 'The Human Mark' (8 parts) and 'The French Army in Alsace' (2 parts)
The comedy in 3 reels, 'Dolly Twain,' on Friday, 21st April, 1916. Pictures including 'Champion Charlie' and 'Our Neighbours' (Keystone comics). Charlie Chaplin is featured. Interesting picture including 'H.R.H. Prince Arthur of Connaught with the French Troops…