A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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661
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-09-29 - 1925-09-29
Summary:

The Sea Hawk,' presented by Frank Lloyd Productions, Inc., featuring Milton Sills, supported by Enid Bennett, Lloyd Hughes, Wallace Beery and a cast of 3,000 players, a First National picture. Illustration included.

662
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-10-03 - 1925-10-03
Summary:

Today at 2.30 p.m. only, tomorrow at 6, 7.30 and 9.15, Monday at all shows, the greatest animal film since 'Tarzan of the Apes,' Hal Roach presents 'The King of Wild Horses,' story by Hal Roach, directed by Fred Jackman, a Pathe picture. Today only at 5, 7.15 and 9.30, '…

663
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-10-10
Summary:

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…

664
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-10-20
Summary:

The possibility in the near future of making cinema films of the wonderfully minute organisms of the cancer virus, so that its life, development and activities can be thrown on a screen, was suggested to me by Mr. J. E. Bernard, the microscopist, who aided Dr. Gye to identify this germ.

665
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-11-03
Summary:

A discussion recently took place at a C. E. M. S meeting in the Cathedral Hall on the question of the value of the cinemas, whether its influence was at present on the whole beneficial. There is a consensus of opinion that more rubbish is purveyed by moving picture producers than by those who…

666
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-11-10
Summary:

There is a great contrast between Puccini's Boheme and his La Tosca, which was the opera selected for presentation at the Star Theatre last night. With such artists as Signorina Lyda Betti, Signor Franco Izal and Signor E. Cunego in the leading roles, the work did not suffer. In the minor…

667
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-11-11 - 1925-11-13
Summary:

If you have anything you would like to sell, exchange or advertise, send it to the China Auction Rooms. Telephone: Central 4453. E. V. M. R. De Sousa, Auctioneer. Public auction. The undersigned has received instructions to sell by public auction, for account of the concerned, on Friday, the…

668
Headline: Star
Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1925-12-17 - 1925-12-18
Summary:

Today till Saturday, Goldwyn presents 'The Christian,' adapted from the famous novel and play by Sir Hall Caine with Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver and Mahlon Hamilton, directed by Maurice Tourneur. Illustration and film review included.

669
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1925-12-17
Summary:

As good as a Cook's tour of England is one description of the fourteen reels of film taken by the Goldwyn company for 'The Christian,' the Goldwyn picture coming to the Star Theatre today for three days. In which Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Phyllis Haver, Gareth Hughes were being…

670
Headline: Star
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-12-17 - 1925-12-19
Summary:

Today till Saturday, Goldwyn presents 'The Christian,' adapted from the famous novel and play by Sir Hall Caine with Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Phyllis Haver and Mahlon Hamilton, directed by Maurice Tourneur. Illustration included.

671
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-12-17
Summary:

The picture which is now being shown at the Queen's Theatre is perhaps the most historically correct in costuming that Hongkong has yet seen. Rafael Sabatini's story Captain Blood, is of the good days of buccaneers on the Spanish Main. Warren Kerrigan has a part which fits him well.…

672
Headline: The Star
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1925-12-17 - 1925-12-19
Summary:

Today till Saturday, Goldwyn presents 'The Christian,' adopted from the famous novel and play by Sir Hall Caine with Richard Dix, Mae Busch, Gareth Hughes, Mahlon Hamilton, directed by Maurice Tourneur, a Goldwyn picture. Illustration included.

673
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-12-25
Summary:

When charged before Mr. E. W. Hamilton, at the Kowloon Magistracy yesterday, with breach of his contract made with Mr. E. H. Gifford, proprietor of the Po Hing Theatre, a Chinese bandmaster pleaded guilty and consented to sign a further agreement to continue in the complainant's employ till…