The firm of Levy Hermoanos may be converted into a Company Ltd next year with 10 million francs. This firm had been extending to the East and opened 9 new branches. They are agents for the Richard Brasier motor-cars as well as for Pathe Freres Cinemagraphs and films. – 'Straits Times…
The Alexandra Cinematograph is advertised in our columns. It is to be located at No. 2, Zetland Street, the most central part of the city and opens on the 21st inst., with a series Pathe's films which have never been exhibited in Hongkong. As the proprietors are to be in constant receipt of…
To the Editor S. C. M. Post – Your excellent editorial note of today regarding cinematograph pictures deserves more than passing consideration. Apart altogether from the question as to whether such pictures are intended to educate or amuse the public, there remains the fact that they can be made…
Nearly 400 miles of cinematograph films have been accumulated for copyright purposes at the national library of France. The authorities are at a loss to know what to do with them.
A packed house witnessed the performance at the Bijou Theatre on Saturday evening. The films shown by the biorama were exceptionally good, and two especially were about the test we have seen in Hongkong. We refer to 'The Use of the Lasso on the Plains of Celebes' and the 'East of…
Tonight at the Victoria Theatre a magnificent film, which won the first prize of 25,000 francs at the recent cinematograph exhibition at Tuxin, is to be thrown on the screen. The picture is entitled 'After fifty years' or the 'Golden Wedding.'
The management of the Victoria Theatre is to be congratulated on their enterprise in obtaining such a remarkably fine film as 'Fifty Years Ago,' which was screened for the first time at the performance last night. The film, which is over 2,000 feet in length, won the grand prize of 25,…
Tonight's programme at the Bijou Theatre is one of special attraction, the art picture being 'The Martyrs,' a fine classic tragedy by Corneille, the Shakespeare of France. There is a burlesque by artistes Murray and Stephenson. A new and taking feature is the 'London Graphic…
A fine film entitled the 'Queen's Necklace,' which illustrates a chapter of French history, is to be shown at the Victoria Theatre tonight. The case of the diamond necklace was a historical scandal which took place about 1785, in the reign of the ill-fated Louis XVI and Marie…
Canton, September 8 – The Superintendent of Police has issued the following notice: I have received a despatch from the Commissioner of France requesting me to stop all cinematograph shows at different places on the expiration of the terms within which they are allowed to perform their shows,…
Seven people were killed and 40 injured in an explosion at a cinematograph show in Montceau Le Neuf, France.
Canton, April 16 – Sometime ago the Commissioner of France sent each Magistrate 1000 premium Bond tickets to persuade people to investigate in them. The Commissioner proposed to have Messrs Liu Kun Ying and Li Fong Lau to lecture in theatres and cinematograph houses on the benefits of the…
The author of 'Quo Vadis' has sold the rights of reporting his works, on films to a European Syndicate for 1.25 billion francs, and a similar right to an American Company for a like sum.
The Gibson Girls' are furnishing great entertainment at the Bijou Theatre with the leading film 'Honesty,' a drama on rural and urban life in France, produced by the Pathe Freres of Paris is in colour.
Bijou Scenic Theatre will show a historical drama of the time of Henry IV of France for four nights replacing 'A Live Wires.'
Bijou Theatre is showing 'A Woman of the People' about domestic life in France. Performances by Wise and Milton.
Mr. Flatt, a member of the very well-known musical team of Sharp and Flatt entertained at the Bijou Theatre. The third series of Pathe's war gazette has arrived and is fully equal to its predecessors while 'Slaves of Ambition,' a piece dealing with politics in France, holds…
The Bells of Rheims,' the story of how the Germans had treated the Westminster Abbey of France is to be on show at the Victoria Theatre. At the Bijou, the coloured film 'The Dungeon of Despair' has provided a great draw.
France had almost a monopoly in the film business through houses like Pathe and Gaumont; and, up till quite recently, the Italians, Belgians and French were the nations from which the most successful and popular film actors and actresses were taken. But now things must be altered. America was…
Paris, Jan. 13 – While Germany stimulates public sentiment with cinematograph films of the war, France, says 'The Petit Journal,' proposed to allow well-known painters to enter the military zone to make a permanent record of the noteworthy scenes which caused public sentiment.