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: 1922-05-01
Summary:

A Cumberland Romance,' a Realart's latest Mary Miles Minter picture, comes to the Kowloon Theatre.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-05-01
Summary:

Mary Miles Minter plays the leading role in 'A Cumberland Romance,' the latest Realart picture which comes to the Kowloon Theatre this evening.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-05-01
Summary:

Kowloon Theatre is going to screen the Realart picture, 'A Cumberland Romance' this evening. Filmed in Tennessee Mountains, Mary Miles Minter plays the leading role.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-05-02
Summary:

A Cumberland Romance,' a Realart's latest Mary Miles Minter picture, is going to be shown at the Coronet Theatre. Film plot included.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1922-05-02
Summary:

Mary Miles Minter plays the leading role in the Realart picture 'A Cumberland Romance,' which will be screened this evening at the Coronet Theatre. Film synopsis is included.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-06-16
Summary:

The famous Griffith picture 'Way Down East' was surrendered this month to Mr. George Mooser, representative of the United Artists Corporation. It marked the first victory of the United Artists Corporation in the fight being waged against motion picture film piracy. For background…

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Headline: World Theatre
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1922-07-27
Summary:

Mary Miles Minter, who starred in 'Jenny be good' and 'A Cumberland Romance' before, is now at the leading role in 'Eyes of the Heart' which is now playing at the World Theatre. The story was adapted by Clara Kennedy from 'Blindness' by Dana Burnet. Paul…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-12-22
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-12-29
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-01-25
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-05-05
Summary:

An epic tale of surging passion sweeping from the wide plains of the Argentine, through the fascinating frivolities of pre-war Paris, into the blazing turmoil of the German invasion of Northern France, will be unfolded on Monday at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, in 'The Four Horsemen of the…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-05-05
Summary:

Readers of Vicente Blasco Ibanez's novel 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' which is being shown on Monday at the Star Theatre. The film is starred by Rudolph Valentino. Film plot included.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1923-05-05
Summary:

Star Theatre is going to screen the film version of a novel of the same name by Vicente Blasco Ibanez entitled, 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse' which had a successful run in London. The original story is presented in a much more intense manner on screen by director Mr. Rex Ingram…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-05-07
Summary:

Holding its own with the best of D. W. Griffith's productions and possessing an even greater significance, the film version of 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' which is being screened at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, today for the first time. Readers of the novel by Vicente…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1923-05-07
Summary:

For the first time today, Star Theatre is going to screen the film version of Vicente Blasco Ibanez's novel entitled 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.' The big settings are one of the notable features of the film. Film synopsis included.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-05-08
Summary:

Some excellent films have been shown in Hongkong from time to time but surely nothing finer in its way than the film version of 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' which crowded audiences saw for the first time at the Star Theatre, Kowloon, yesterday. The plot of the widely read…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-05-09
Summary:

One opinion has it that the scenes dealing with the hero's youth which occur in the first part of the film version of 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse,' which crowded audiences are seeing at the Star Theatre in Kowloon just now, could easily have been cut out. It has been…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1923-05-09
Summary:

Star Theatre is showing the pictorial representation of Vincente Ibanez, entitled 'The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.' The picture aptly exhibits the horrors of the Great War. Together with 'Intolerance,' this latest Coronet production should be taken over by the League of…