A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Headline: Kowloon Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-10-12 - 1922-10-14
Summary:

Tuesday, October 17th, special dance with music by the famous Seattle Rainbow cabaret band. Now orchestra of S. S. President Grant.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-10-16 - 1922-10-16
Summary:

Dance lovers will keep tomorrow evening free for the extra special dance with music by President Grant Band.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-10-17 - 1922-10-17
Summary:

Tonight at 9.15 p.m., special dance with music by the jazz band of President Grant. Tickets $2.00 at Moutrie's. Tomorrow and Thursday, Nazimova comes to Kowloon Theatre in 'Billions.'

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-10-17
Summary:

The orchestra of the s.s. 'President Grant' will play at a special dance at the Kowloon Theatre tonight.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-01-31
Summary:

Bail of $250 was granted to a Sanitary Board foreman who was charged at the Magistracy yesterday for assaulting a ticket collector of the Ko Shing Theatre. He was alleged to have accosted the ticket collector at Wah Ning lane and stabbed him in the head with a knife.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-05-25
Summary:

Application was made to Mr. Justice Barrett-Lennard in the Singapore Supreme Court last week by Mr. Laycock, on behalf of the Australasian Films (East) Limited, for an injunction against Mr. Aroozoo, to restrain him from infringing the alleged rights of the Company in a film, entitled 'The…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-07-13
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-08-23
Summary:

The kiddies are going to get a real treat in the exciting historical Wild West drama coming to the Star, 'Buffalo Bill.' This picture is in 18 episodes. General Grant, Abraham Lincoln, Gen. Robt. E. Lee, Sitting Bull, Sioux Indian Chief, and all who helped to make early American…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-02-01
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-08-16
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-12-06
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-12-08
Summary:

The picture version of David Belasco's noted stage success, 'The Gold-diggers,' has been announced for the World Theatre for four days run. This play was written by Grant Carpenter and directed by Harry Beaumont. Other stars included Hope Hampton, Wyndham Standing, Louise Fazenda…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-12-10
Summary:

Another Warner Brothers Classic of the Screen is scheduled to appear at the World Theatre for four days' run commencing today. This is 'The Gold Digger,' featuring Hope Hampton, an adaptation of the David Belasco stage play of the same name. When Mr. Belasco read the scenario for…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-02-20
Summary:

Rafael Sabatini, the author of 'Scaramouche,' which in its screen form, as produced by Rex Ingram for Metro, opens at the Queen's Theatre tomorrow. When 'Scaramouche' was published in 1921, critics who declared the historical novel could not come back were forced to…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-02-24
Summary:

A boon for the movies is 'Scaramouche,' the big Rex Ingram production for Metro, which is showing at the Queen's Theatre. The cast of 10,000 is headed by Ramon Novarro, Alice Terry and Lewis Stone, the triumvirate of Ingram's earlier film, 'The Prisoner of Zenda,'…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-11-16
Summary:

Presiding over the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday, the Chief Justice, Sir Henry Gollan, expressed surprise that a cinema theatre should go bankrupt in these times. Included in the list of cases was an application for an order for adjudication in respect of the World Theatre. Mr. A. Dyer Ball, the…