As will be seen from our advertising columns, a projectoscope exhibition will be given in the City Hall at an early date. This particular exhibition is spoken of very highly in Shanghai, and as it has pictures of the Coronation processions it should attract appreciative audiences.
The public will have an opportunity of seeing one of Edison's latest inventions in the City Hall. The principal feature of the entertainment will be the new 20th-century projectoscope, the latest development of the cinematograph and bioscope, and an immense improvement upon anything that…
Forthcoming entertainment of the 20th Century Projectoscopic Company has announced. A brilliant series of photographs scenes in London at Coronation time, the Passion Play as performed at Oberammergau, and realistic pictures of the battle of San Juan, and of President Roosevelt's Rough…
We would remind our readers of the entertainments to be given in the City Hall. All the Shanghai journals praised the new pictures and the new and improved method of showing them, and from all we hear the entertainment is likely to be most enjoyable.
It is always more pleasant to praise than to condemn, but the pleasure is not always possible. Quite a large percentage of the last night's audience in the Theatre Royal were disappointed. Either the 'projectoscope' or its operator was at fault. The pictures jerked into all sorts…
The latest and most perfect animated pictures direct from London to Hong Kong. Complete set of Pictures of the Coronation Festivities. Vide Shanghai Press of last Winter. Plan at the Robinson Riano Co., Ltd. T. J. Stevenson is the Proprietor.
An exceedingly good Bioscope entertainment is that which is being given by Mr. T. J. Stevenson at the Theatre Royal. The coronation pictures are exceedingly good. The news described some scenes of the films.
The exhibition of the Bioscope on Saturday night at the Theatre Royal was hardly up to the standard of such entertainments. The bioscope was not in good working order, necessitating several delays, and the films were in a damaged condition. Some problems and scenes of the pictures were described…
The Bioscope is the only one of its kind really worth seeing. Emphasis on the pictures are steady and continuous and do not dazzle the eye. Cinematographic art as exhibited in the leading theatres of Europe and America. Price details included. Seats reserved can be booked at the Robinson Piano…
The far east question is being extensively reflected in the places of entertainment in London. The Palace has been showing biograph series of pictures of Japanese life.
In very recent wars the motion-picture cameras have made their appearance. C. Fred Ackerman, with whom the writer tented in China, is undoubtedly the most successful of the war motion-picture operators. His first experience was in the Philippines, which photographed two men in the act of being…
Tomorrow night the Metropole hotel will be opened with a high-class vaudeville performance. Among the artistes who are billed to appear, are Tom Morcomb, Comedian and mimic; Walter King, Baritone; Miss Gertie Maisie, refined serio-comic; Authur Jones, Comedian and character impersonator; James…
Considering the state of weather there was good attendance at the Metropole Theatre on Saturday night, and the entertainment was as interesting as was that of the previous week. The artistes were Messrs. George Gibbs, Walter Keene, Gertie Maisie, J. Christie and Tom Morcomb. There was also an…
An unusually attractive and new programme has been arranged for Saturday night's performance at the Metropole Theatre on which occasion some new artistes will make their appearance, e.g. Miss Dora Grey. A new series of animated pictures will be displayed by the Bioscope.
Mr. Pereival Gibbon writes in the Daily Mail on St. Petersburg, and comment 'The lamp-festooned gates of the Aquarium filter the people of St. Petersburg, rejecting the common and unclean, together with the gorgeous and the opulent.' There is a theatre, an open air variety show, and a…
A complete change of programme introducing new artistes will be given at the Metropole Theatre on Saturday night. There are some descriptions of the performances. Noted that the Bioscope will display another series of animated pictures just received from London.
A pathetic representation of the Czar of all the Russians is shown on the biograph at the Palace Theatre. There was a detailed description of the picture.
We still await authentic 'Views of interiors' from Lama. Perhaps ultimately cinematograph pictures will come, but the short occupation as far has not gratified our curiosity much. A humorist at the British Association meeting propounded a new theory of our expedition into Tibet. The…
The information of how cinematograph pictures were taken, developed and processed. Lens, shutters, wooden frames, clean water, hyposulphite of soda and sodium bisulphite had been mentioned.
Mr. Will Holmsworth's Co. opened their season last night at the theatre Royal, and the show is nothing short of successful. Mr. Eric Hewell, Miss Ruby Maxwell, Miss Maud Larele, and Miss Lancy Stewart performed in the first part. The first part of the programme concluded with a refined and…