The Alexandra Cinema-Theatre is visiting Hong Kong. Their performance last night in a hall at No. 2 Zetland Street started shortly after eight. With the Manila String Band in attendance, and with Mr. Gongiles at the piano, the first performance was a song 'Honey Boy' by Miss Thelma.…
An exhibition of open air cinematograph show will be given free before and after the dinner on Saturday and Sunday night.
Alexandra Cinematograph, in Zetland Street, offered the audiences high quality films. To begin with, the firm reproduced on the screen are the production of the noted firm of Pathe Freres of Paris. If we have a fault to find with the show at all it is that there was too little of the educational…
The Mayor of New York has summarily revoked all licences for cinematograph exhibitions throughout the city. It is announced that he will not issue any fresh licences until satisfied that adequate precautions are taken against fire. Cinematograph shows have grown recently into a gigantic…
The Piccadilly Circus in Sydney showed a film about a fight between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson which was produced by Gaumont Studio in Sherwood-st. It was so realistic. The miracle worker is Mr. McIntosh, promoter and referee of the fight between Tommy Burns and Jack Johnson. Films of the…
According to a report by American Medicine (New York), the use of the moving pictures in the teaching of surgery will probably soon become an assured fact. Already moving pictures are being utilised in some of our schools, but now that the manufacture, exposure, and reproduction of these…
Nearly 400 miles of cinematograph films have been accumulated for copyright purposes at the national library of France. The authorities are at a loss to know what to do with them.
Every evening at 7 p.m. and 9.15 p.m., cinematograph d'elite, the latest pictures with the best artists; matinees every Saturday and Sunday at 4 p.m., 50, 30 and 20 cents, children half-price to all parts.
3 special Cinematograph Vaudeville pictures this week: The Clown (coloured, Max Linder in search of a sweetheart); The Sceptre (Miss Vera Ferrace and Miss Grace Vyveene); Arriving Shortly -- Miss Grace Wilson (look out for Vera Ferrace's benefit).
Cinematograph shows appear to be growing in popular regard in the Colony. The King's Electric Theatre which has been recently opened at Yaumati by the same syndicate that owns Bijou Scenic Theatre, with Mr. J. Lafferty as lessee and manager, is attracting large crowds of Chinese nightly.…
The kaleidoscope which originally was a plaything, and living pictures have up to the present been associated only with amusement. The Champagne riots at Rheims have found a new use for the cinematograph. The apparatus was brought into court and used with deadly effect.
March 11 to March 16, open from 2.30 p.m. daily, many attractions; stalls, for the sale of articles and curios of every description; exhibition, a magnificent loan exhibition of porcelain; music, by kind permission of the Naval and Military Authorities music will be supplied daily by H.M.S.…
Every evening at 7.15 p.m. and 9.15 p.m., a boom in picture plays; The Conjurer's Triumph - by Max Linder; The Pathe Gayette [sic] - the world's latest news; The Gaumont Graphics -- news from home; 'What Every Mother Does' - by Wiffles; 'Please Take One' - by Nick…
A bazaar and fancy fete will be held (by kind permission of the commandant and officers of the Hongkong Volunteer Corps) on the Volunteer Parade Ground, on Saturday, October 19th from 2.30 to 6.30 p.m.; many novelties that are suitable for Christmas presents, including Children's play…
Tonight 9.15 p.m. all new pictures; comics 'An Escape of Gas' by Max Linder; 'In the Grocery Business' by Little Moritz, 'The All-conquering Hero' by Prince, 'The Passing of Dappled Fawn' (American-Indian drama, coloured, art), and Gaumont Graphic (The…
Tonight 9.15 p.m. look at this programme; 'Love and Boxing' by Max Linder; 'Wiffles Double' by Prince; 'The Sinking of the 'Helvetia'' (the first Genuine Wrock Filmed); Gaumont Graphic (World's lastest news); musical interludes by Miss Rowley and Mr.…
In aid of the funds of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul to be held in the compound of the Roman Catholic Cathedral on Sunday; 3rd Nov from 9 p.m. to 11 p.m. under the most distinguished patronage of His excellency the Governor Sir Francis, Henry May and Lady May; admission ticket $ 1.00 which…
Latest news in pictures, London edition of Pathe Gazette and Gaumont Graphic; vaudeville by Dolly Swift, Gladys Spencer, and Ada Rowley.
We have visited one of the local Cinema Show and we saw nothing in the pictures likely to prove harmful to anyone. Cinematograph is one of the best mediums for enlarging the minds of youth, therefore, we feel sure that the owners of the shows know that it is in their best interests not to…
The specialty, News of the World in Pictures (Pathe Gazette & Gaumont Graphic); acrobatic performance; musical interludes by Cecile Stephano and Dolly Swift.