A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1921-06-22
Summary:

A splendid programme is being presented at Kowloon Theatre tonight. The opening film is the ever-popular Coronet Review, which contains pictures of the Far Eastern Olympic, including very full accounts of the South China football team. The principal item is an all-British production, 'Alf…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1921-06-23
Summary:

A very large audience thoroughly enjoyed a splendid programme at Kowloon Theatre. The chief attraction was 'Alf's Button,' an entertainment picture portraying well-known favourites including Leslie Henson and Alma Taylor. The film will be shown at the Coronet on the weekend.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-03-29
Summary:

Go and Get It,' Marshall Weilan's drama of newspaper adventure, makes its last appearance at the Kowloon Theatre this evening.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-05-15
Summary:

Cinema-goers who have seen Larry Semon as the baker's boy, the stage band and the rent collector will get endless fun out of his latest role 'The Grocery Clerk,' which provides the comic relief in Kowloon Theatre.

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Headline: Cinema Notes
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-05-15
Summary:

Larry Semon's latest comedy 'The Grocery Clerk,' and Mary Miles Minter's drama 'All Souls' Eve' are the attractions at the Coronet Theatre. Besides, Sir Gilbert Parker's 'The Right of Way' will be screened at the Kowloon Theatre.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-12-25
Summary:

The Cheater' is the Kowloon Theatre's attractive Christmas Week picture. Based upon 'Judah,' the celebrated play by Henry Arthur Jones which created a considerable stir when it was first produced at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London a few years back, the film deals with faith…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-01-09
Summary:

In recent weeks such notable attractions as 'The Cheater,' 'Homespun Folks' and 'Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness' have been shown at the Kowloon Theatre – now comes 'Steelheart,' a whirlwind drama of the 'Wild West' type, which is being shown until…