A History Of Film Exhibition And Reception In Colonial Hong Kong: 1897 To 1925
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-01-05
Summary:

In 'Gates of Brass' to be shown tonight at the Victoria Theatre, Frank Keenan gives one of the most fascinating and powerful performance on the screen. He is supported by Lois Wilson, George Fisher, Clyde Benston [sic], Edwin Tilton, Lillian Langdon and Frank De Loan. The play is…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1920-03-30
Summary:

London, Feb. 17 – It was hoped that Lady Aston M.P., [sic] would appear as the star turn in an East End propaganda film, but the member for Plymouth was unavoidably detained, and so the producer had to be content with featuring Mrs. H. A. L. Fisher, the wife of the Minister of Education. The…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1921-02-26
Summary:

Edgar Lewis is an apostle of the outdoor picture, and he believes that it is the motion picture that can and should bring the great outdoors to the city-bound. He has produced a number of outdoor pictures, and the latest one is 'Sherry.' 'Sherry' is a photodramatization of a…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1921-08-10
Summary:

Middle East Films, Ld., whose head office in Singapore, is about to open an office in Hongkong. Mr Joe Fisher, general manager of the company, and Mr Ernest A. Hopson, who represents several South African corporations connected with film art are in Hongkong and informed us yesterday that Middle…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1921-08-10
Summary:

The Middle East Films, Ld., whose head office is in Singapore, is about to open an office in Hongkong. Mr. Joe Fisher, the general manager of the Company, and Mr. Ernest A. Hopson, who represents several South African corporations connected with film art, are in Hongkong. The first exhibition of…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-01-13
Summary:

The Bandbox,' starring Doris Kenyon, the Deitrich-Back, Inc., production of Louis Joseph Vance's story, comes to the World Theatre. Meanwhile, the film is directed by R. William Neill, and Kenyon is supported by Alexander Gaden, Gretchen Hartman, Walter, Weston, Edward Keppler, Logan…

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1922-08-17 - 1922-08-17
Summary:

Tonight till Sunday, Roy Stewart, Robert McKim, Joseph Dowling, George Fisher and Fritzi Brunette in 'The Devil to Pay.'

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-02-23
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-07-19
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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-09-11
Summary:

In 'The Storm Daughter,' the current Queen's Theatre attraction, Priscilla Dean appears as a charming fisher lass, who becomes the victims of a collision between a motorboat and a big sailing vessel, and later on, the object of the attention of a brute skipper. Much favourable…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1925-01-10
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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1925-01-12
Summary:

The Love Pirate,' a Richard Thomas production, released by F.B.O., showing at the World Theatre today. The picture is starred by Melbourne McDowell, Carmel Myers, Kathryn McGuire, Clyde Fillmore, John Tonkey, Carol Halloway and Edward W. Borman. Richard Thomas is the producer. Film plot…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-01-12
Summary:

In the annals of police courts, it is seldom found that a criminal has voluntarily accused himself of a crime, especially if that crime happens to be murder, but in 'The Love Pirate,' the Richard Thomas production, released by F. B. O., showing at the World Theatre today, a situation…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1925-02-21
Summary:

Star Theatre will be screening the film version of Mary Roberts Rinehart's novel 'K' under the title 'K-The Unknown.' The Universal-Jewel attraction stars Virginia Valli and Perey Marmont who is famous for his role in 'If Winter Comes.' The cast also includes…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-02-21
Summary:

K,' a famous novel by Mary Roberts Rinehart, which will be told on the screen under the title 'K-the Unknown,' Universal Jewel, soon to be shown in the Star Theatre. K. LeMoyne, the man around whom the story is built. Virginia Valli plays the part of Sidney. Percy Marmont, whose…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-04-14
Summary:

Body and Soul,' a photoplay promising to be the most interesting of Alice Lake's appearances on the screen, will be seen today at the Queen's Theatre. Local cinema-goers have seen and like Miss Lake. As the fisher girl in 'Should a Woman Tell?' and the not dissimilar but…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-10-09
Summary:

Keble Howard is interested in plays and films. His new farce, 'Lord Bass,' had a splendid reception in the provinces recently, with the author in the name part. If the right theatre can be obtained, the farce will be seen in London this side of Christmas. A film version of his novel…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-10-13
Summary:

(By C. Morand for the S. C. M. Post) Philadelphia, Aug. 26. Motion Pictures to be Taken – Complete motion picture equipment will be taken to photograph all activities of the expedition, the film to be later used in university lecture work. Scenes from old Arab life, said to be fast disappearing…