A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-10-29 - 1918-10-31
Summary:

Tonight, showing 1st and 2nd episodes of 'Liberty' and various comics. There will be a special matinee on Friday, 1st November on behalf of Portuguese Red Cross Society at 5.15 p.m.

2
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-11-05 - 1918-11-07
Summary:

Tonight, 9.15 performance, showing 3rd and 4th episodes of 'Liberty' and various comics.

3
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-11-12 - 1918-11-14
Summary:

November 12th, 13th and 14th, 9.15 performance, showing 5th and 6th episodes of 'Liberty' and various comics.

4
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-11-19 - 1918-11-21
Summary:

November 19, 20 and 21, 9.15 performance, showing 'Liberty,' 7th and 8th episodes and comics.

5
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-11-26 - 1918-11-28
Summary:

November 26, 27 and 28, 9.15 performance, showing 'Liberty,' 9th and 10th episodes, and comics.

6
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-12-03 - 1918-12-05
Summary:

December 3rd, 4th and 5th, showing 'Liberty' episodes 11 and 12 and comics.

7
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-12-17 - 1918-12-19
Summary:

December 17, 18 and 19, 7.15 and 9.15 performance, showing 13 and 14 episodes of 'Liberty' and comics.

8
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-12-24 - 1918-12-25
Summary:

Tonight, 7.15 and 9.15 performance, showing 15 and 16 episodes of 'Liberty' and comics.

9
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1918-12-31 - 1919-01-01
Summary:

Tonight, 7.15 and 9.15 performance, showing 'Liberty,' episodes 17 and 18, and comics.

10
Headline: Empire Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-01-07 - 1919-01-09
Summary:

Tonight, 7.15 and 9.15 performance, showing the last two episodes of 'Liberty,' episodes 19 and 20. Also comics.

11
Headline: The Empire
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-01-09
Summary:

While two episodes of 'Liberty' will be shown at the Empire Theatre.

12
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-12-05 - 1919-12-06
Summary:

Just as there are some books which not to have read marks a defective education, so there are some plays which not to have seen shows lack of culture. Of these latter is 'Julius Caesar,' a magnificent film version of this most famous of all historical dramas will be screened at the…

13
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-12-15
Summary:

It speaks volumes for the control that the Coronet has secured over the best class of moving pictures that that house can screen in one and the same day two such pictures as 'The Plunderer' and 'Thais.' Roy Norton's red-blooded story which the former is founded. William…

14
Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-04-19
Summary:

The management of the Coronet claims that in the fourth special programme of their 'Super-season' they are presenting the most attractive picture that has yet been thrown upon a cinema screen in the Colony. The first item is the ever-popular Pathe Gazette, which shows Carpentier just…

15
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-05-08
Summary:

The principal item of the Coronet programme is 'Daphne and the Pirate,' a costume play dealing with the times of Louis XV of France. Lilian Gish plays the heroine. Film plot included. Other interesting items in the programme are an excellent Pathe Gazette, in which showing Captain Ross…

16
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-08-03 - 1920-08-03
Summary:

The slogan of the trade for 1920 was, 'fewer and better pictures,' Coronet patrons have seen some of them and cannot but recognise that producers have had the courage of their convictions. Tonight another Goldwyn masterpiece fills the screen at the little house, 'The Venus Model…

17
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-08-06
Summary:

It is a coincidence that the Coronet Theatre should at present be showing a Pathe Gazette which includes pictures of Lieut. Lockyear [sic] performing some sensational stunts on an aeroplane in Arizona. Reuter reports in our today's issue that both Lockyear and his assistant were killed at…

18
Headline: At the Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-12-04 - 1920-12-04
Summary:

At 2.30, 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., nine reels of 1920 pictures, produced by Goldwyn, written by Rex Beach, directed by Reginald Barker, 'The Brand.' Tonight's programme also includes ‘Snub' Pollard and sunshine summer in 'Shoot at Sight,' and the always interesting Pathe…

19
Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-12-08 - 1920-12-11
Summary:

Tonight at 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15, splendid double attraction: Harold Lloyd in 'Bumping into Broadway,' Emmy Wehlen and Creighton Hale in 'His Bonded Wife' and Pathe Gazette.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-12-09
Summary:

Emmy Wehlen in 'His Bonded Wife,' a smart up-to-date comedy of society life, is but one of the attractions at the Coronet Theatre until Saturday next, the other items being a screamingly funny $100,000 comedy entitled 'Bumping into Broadway,' featuring Harold Lloyd, and an…