The Great Thurston will give several performances at the Ko Shing Theatre (Queen's Road West). Opening Friday, August 3rd.
World's master magician and Entire Company gave several performances
As will be seen from our Advertisement columns, Thurston, the great magicians, and his company, have decided to open tonight at Ko Shing Theatre. The performance will be continued for one week. Thousands of the Chinese will be mystified by the entertainment for which Mr. Thurston is responsible…
World's master magician and Entire Company gave several performances
The new Lock Sing Theatre is doing very good business and people are loud in their praises of the excellent Company engaged and the elegance of the theatre, which is the best that has yet been built in Canton.
Canton, December 11 – A Chinese merchant named Liu To Lung, of the Kwong Lee Company, has offered $18,000 as a yearly rental for the new theatre at Cheun Lung Hau. The Reorganization Department has sent an officer to inquire whether this merchant is reliable or not.
A fresh method of entertaining passengers on a long voyage is to be tried by an Italian steamship company. British ship owners have been approached time after time to install a bioscope, but they have turned a deaf ear to every project, and it had been left to a foreign company to initiate a new…
The announcement of a cinematograph show to be given on Saturday next at 9 p.m. in the rooms lately occupied by Messrs Weismann, Ltd., in Wyndham Street. Performances will be given every night and the programme changed once a week. The company running the business hail from Paris and have now…
The Charles Urban Trading Co., Ltd, forward a very interesting booklet descriptive of the Cinematograph in its relation to Science, Education and matters of state. The enterprise shown and the merit of the contents are commendable.
Canton, 5th September – The lease of the Honam theatre has been granted to the Ching Ping Company for a term of three years.
New Films arrive weekly, price 43 cents per metre (Straits Currency). F. Dreyfus of the Boston Steamship Company, is the sole agent for The Straits, Burmah, Java, Sumatra, Siam, Hongkong, The Philippines, etc.
A series of living pictures were given; Proceeds after expenses have been paid will be devoted to the North-Eastern Hospital for Children in London, and to the fund for the Restoration of Winchester Cathedral. Booking at the Robinson Piano Co.
The first day's play of the cricket match drew a big crowd of spectators. A Pretty Fete: Visitors obtained a good deal of fun from the excellent films shown by the Cinematograph Company, which usually exhibits in the hall attached to the Café Weismann. The moving pictures were flung onto a…
The Cinematograph Pathe will exhibit the 'Passion Play, Oberammergau,' film 6000 feet long. Also many other films, comic, dramatic & sensational, never seen in Hongkong. Booking at Messrs S. Moutrie & Co.
A special cinematograph attraction is promised for tomorrow night at the Theatre Royal, and for one night only, when the great Passion Play will be shown. The booking is in the hands of Messrs Moutrie and Company; The Victoria Cinematograph continues to do good business and a set of new pictures…
The proprietors of the Hongkong Cinematograph announce that new films will be shown tonight, as the travelling agent for the Company is in Hongkong with a fresh supply of films on the way to Shanghai. On Saturday evening the hall was crowded to its utmost capacity.
The Victoria Cinematograph received a series of new films by the last mail from Europe, some of which will be exhibited on Friday, Saturday and Sunday evenings. The piece de resistance is one entitled 'The Poor Mother' and it is said to be highly dramatic. Monday next will be the last…
The only Chinese actor in America appearing in an English speaking company is Ah Sam, who plays Sing Wing as William Collier's support in 'Caught in the Rain' at the Victoria theatre on Monday (says the 'Daily Colonist,' Vancouver). Ah Sam was born and raised in Hong…
Parisian Cinematograph Co. opened in the gardens of the Kowloon Hotel, at which place they are to render a series of open air entertainment through animated picture machine on Friday. It was very unlucky that the rain came down in torrents just a little before the time for starting.
The premises of the above company are still in the hands of the contractors who have not yet completed the repairs to the damaged roof and windows caused by the recent typhoon, but it is expected that the place will be re-opened shortly. New artists and a new set of animated pictures are…