A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Headline: Coming!
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-09-27 - 1919-09-27
Summary:

The sublime Nazimova in Metro's 'Revelation.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-09-29 - 1919-10-01
Summary:

We are prepared to be judged by any and every Metro picture that we screen, and we challenge comparison with any other brand. Tonight we are showing the greatest of all screen stars incomparable Nazimova in the play that made her famous, 'Revelation.' Although this picture is a super-…

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Headline: Coronet Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-09-29 - 1919-09-29
Summary:

Tonight, H. W. Ray presents Nazimova in Metro's super-production deluxe, 'Revelation.' Usual prices. Booking at Robinson's.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-09-30 - 1919-09-30
Summary:

Enormous and instantaneous success of Nazimova in 'Revelation.' Pictures included.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-10-01
Summary:

For the second night in succession, 'Revelation' the magnificent Metro production at the Coronet, drew two crowded houses.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-10-02 - 1919-10-04
Summary:

October 2nd, 3rd and 4th, last three nights of Nazimova in 'Revelation.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-10-03
Summary:

Quite the best picture play we have seen in Hongkong, 'Revelation.' Film plot included.

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-10-04 - 1919-10-04
Summary:

Tonight at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., last performance of Metro's super film, 'Revelation' featuring Nazimova. Do not miss this wonderful production. It is leaving the colony on Monday. Tomorrow at 6 and 9.15 p.m., Metro presents Harold Lockwood in 'The Haunted Pajamas,' a…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-11-06 - 1919-11-07
Summary:

Friday, November 7th at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., positively last performance of Rex Beach's 'The Auction Block.' Saturday, November 8th at 2.15, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 p.m., incomparable Nazimova in 'Toys of Fate,' bigger and better than 'Revelation.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1919-11-10 - 1919-11-10
Summary:

‘Even better than 'Revelation'' was Saturday night's big audience's verdict on Nazimova in 'Toys of Fate.' Showing tonight at the Coronet at 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15 p.m. Grand holiday's matinee, today at 2.15 p.m., the 'Tarzan' story complete in 15…

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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…

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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…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-01-10 - 1920-01-10
Summary:

Last two nights of Frank Keenan in 'The Master Man' at the Coronet. Sunday at 6 p.m., Nazimova in 'Revelation.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-01-10 - 1920-01-10
Summary:

Today at 2.30 and 7.15 p.m., Mollie King in 'All Man.' Tonight at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., Sunday at 9.15 p.m., Frank Keenan in 'The Master Man.' Sunday matinee at 6 p.m., Nazimova in 'Revelation.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-01-15 - 1920-01-15
Summary:

De Luxe Annie' with Norma Talmadge is a worthy successor to the long line of good films shown at the Coronet. Tonight at 5.15 and 9.15 p.m., tomorrow at 9.15 p.m. Tomorrow at 5.15 p.m., there will be absolutely the last performance of 'Revelation.' Picture included.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-01-16 - 1920-01-16
Summary:

Today at 5.15, last performance of Nazimova in 'Revelation.' At 7.15 p.m., Bushman and Bayne in 'Red, White and Blue Blood.' At 9.15 p.m., final showing of Norma Talmadge in 'De Luxe Annie.'

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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…

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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…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-05-14
Summary:

One of the most absorbing photodramas ever shown in Hongkong is being screened tonight at the Coronet in 'Out of the Fog,' Nazimova's latest production for Metro Film Corporation. Those who saw this greatest of all cinema stars in 'Revelation' will know what to expect in…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-05-17
Summary:

Nazimova's latest vehicle for the display of her extraordinary acting abilities has drawn crowded houses to the Coronet over the Weekend. It is doubtful if any screen star, not even excepting Mary Pickford, has managed to get such a following in so short a time as the famous little Russian…