Kansas City, June 26 – An explosion followed by fire has destroyed Gillis cinema theatre. The police estimate 30 to 40 fatalities, but this is guesswork, pending a search of the ruins. – Reuter's American Service.
Mr. A. M. Powell, after a visit to China and Japan this spring, writes to The Times blaming the cinematograph as the main cause of the present unrest. He says: The worst and cheapest sort of American films were everywhere shown, and the Chinese were taking to it like ducks to water, the result…
(From the Army and Navy Gazette) The steps which are being taken to remedy the present depression in the British film industry must find sympathetic approval in the Services. Lord Newton, who raised the question in the House of Lords recently, after showing that no less than 95% of the films…
First National, United Artists, Paramount, Metro and Goldwyn will contribute their finest photoplays to the Queen's, together with the super-productions of Pathe, Warner Bros. and Universal. The latest Gaumont and Pathe British Gazettes and Pathe American news will be shown. Pathe, Mack…
Tomorrow, Hongkong's biggest theatre comes into its own! Hereafter, First National, United Artists, Paramount, Metro and Goldwyn will contribute their finest photoplays to the Queen's, together with the super-productions of Pathe, Warner Bros. and Universal. The latest Gaumont and…
Hereafter, First National, United Artists, Paramount, Metro and Goldwyn will contribute their finest photoplays to the Queen's, together with the super-production of Pathe, Warner Bros. and Universal. The latest Gaumont and Pathe British Gazette and Pathe American news will also be shown.…
The British film industry has seen its downfall in the past few years. Practical elimination of British pictures from the screen throughout the Empire and abroad has had a serious socio-political effect. By 1923, only one film in sixteen will be British. Generally, the Great War and America…
We have been hearing a great deal lately of the weakening of British prestige in the Far East through our official failure to understand the worldwide importance of cinemas. There are 22 cinemas in Korea and 16 in Manchuria. They appeal only to Koreans, who like American pictures. In Shanghai,…
(To the Editor, S. C. M. Post) Sir, – at the mass indignation meeting held at the Theatre Royal on Tuesday when the views of various members of the audience were expressed, it is felt that Mr. Best, in expressing his opinion, passed certain remarks concerning Americans, which were in bad taste.…
(By Julian Arnold, W. S. Commercial Attache in the Columbia Port Digest) American Children in China – A Chinese mother refused to allow her daughter to proceed to America to finish her education because she objected to American social customs. When asked where she got her information, she…
An article from Rober Nichols in the Times: 'Why don't we get better pictures?' will be immediately confronted by two obstacles: first, the seeming mass and variety sometimes conflicting answers offered him, and second, the undoubted fact, witnessed by the tone in which these…
In the office of 'Famous Players,' I met Mr. Adolphe [sic] Zukor, the president of the organization. 'Everywhere the public take most kindly to three sorts of film – comedy, intimate drama, and spectacle, the last corresponding to the circus. The ‘bestseller' is not always…
Douglas Fairbank's wonder film: 'The Thief of Bagdad' is sure to draw crowded houses at the Queen's Theatre. Mr. Tod Sanborn a xylophonist will perform at the Star Theatre. Pauline Frederick, in 'Smouldering Fires' and a film of American stage turns, completed a…
The great trouble with the films today is that they are made mostly in Hollywood and mostly for Monkeyville,' said Mr. T. C. Elder, managing director of the Stoll Film Studios, Cricklewood, who presided at a luncheon given at the Connaught Rooms by representatives of the staff of the studio…
The London correspondent of The Englishman declares that Wall Street is prepared to find £50,000,000 for waging war on the British film industry, fearing the introduction of legislation to protect British films. Americans are buying up as many picture theatres in Britain as possible. A thousand…
Manila, Dec. 27 – 13 people were killed and a hundred injured when a blaze in a Cebu theatre started a panic among the audience. Many were trampled down in rushing to the exit. An American cut an exit through the walls, saving many lives. The fire started in the projection room. – Reuter.