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: 1924-09-27
Summary:

The new picture which comes to the Coronet Theatre this evening does not belie the promise of its name. 'The Westbound Limited' is as exciting a railway story as any cinemagoer could wish. Among its more breathless moments are the scenes where two screeching iron monsters rush at…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-09-27
Summary:

Hongkong cinema-goers do not need to be told what Viola Dana represents on the silent stage. In 'The Five Dollar Baby,' plenty of room is found for fun – fun of the kind which is neither riotous nor unnatural. In some of the scenes one cannot help being carried away by the really…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-09-29
Summary:

The Coronet Theatre is showing again today the railway story 'Westbound Limited,' an exciting melodrama featuring Ralph Lewis and an all-star cast.

124
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-09-29
Summary:

Cinema visitors who have been to the Queen's Theatre during the weekend are loud in their praises of the latest Metro production, 'The Five Dollar Baby,' in which that light-comedy actress, Viola Dana, takes the stellar role. Ralph Lewis is also seen to advantage as the Jewish…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-09-30
Summary:

The final shows of Metro's light-comedy-melodrama, 'The Five Dollar Baby,' will be given today at the Queen's Theatre. Viola Dana, as the star, gives an exquisite performance and Ralph Lewis enacts the part of a benevolent pawnbroker of Semitic extraction.

126
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-10-04
127
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-08
128
Headline: The Lesson'
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-08
129
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-11
Summary:

The Mailman' is the remarkable combination which is behind the recent successes Emory Johnson has placed on the screen. He was formerly leading man for Mary Pickford, who has no place in the front ranks of the motion picture creating geniuses, attributes all of his phenomenal progress to…

130
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-11-12
Summary:

Congratulating her son, Emory Johnson, the well-known producer and Ralph Lewis, the star, for their brilliant work in 'The Mailman,' released by film booking offices of America and to be shown at the World Theatre tonight. Mrs. Emilie Johnson, the author of the story, asserts that the…

131
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-14
Summary:

Emory Johnson's picture 'The Mailman' is now playing at the World Theatre. The picture starred by Ralph Lewis, Johnnie Walker, Josephine Adair, David Kirby, Taylor Graves, Martha Sleeper and others. Film plot included.

132
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-11-14
Summary:

Tense drama, written around a dramatic being, the man who delivers mail to hundreds of families every day in the year, is proving to be highly interesting entertainment at the World Theatre, where Emory Johnson's latest F. B. C. [sic] Production, 'The Mailman' is playing. Ralph…

133
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-11-14
Summary:

A large, old-fashioned trunk is Jackie Coogan's bed in 'Daddy,' a First National picture, produced by Sol Lesser, which is coming to the Queen's Theatre tomorrow for a five days' engagement. E. Mason Hopper directed it from the original story by Mr. and Mrs. Jack Coogan…

134
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-18
Summary:

Broadway After Dark' will run at the World Theatre beginning today. This is the Warner Bros' screen version of Owen Davis play. Starred by Adolphe Menjou, Norma Shearer, Anna Q. Nilsson, Edward Burns, Carmel Myers, Vera Lewis, Willard Louis, Mervyn LeRoy, Jimmy Quinn, Edgar Norton and…

135
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-11-18
Summary:

Broadway After Dark' is a picture of midnight adventures in New York's region of the Great White Way, scheduled for a five day's run at the World Theatre beginning today. The life of the habitues of Broadway, portrayed in this Warner Bros' Classic of the Screen by a stellar…

136
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-20
Summary:

Mitchell Lewis, the screen actor in 'The Mutiny of the Elsinore,' the Metro picturization of Jack London's celebrated novel, will be shown today at the Queen's Theatre. Young Mitchell obtained an engagement in musical play 'The Chinese Honeymoon' and 'The Two…

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Headline: Queen's Theatre
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-11-20
Summary:

Elevator boys are not the only ones who travel from the bottom to the top, as is instanced by the career of Mitchell Lewis, the well-known screen actor, who is member of the all-star cast of 'The Mutiny of the Elsinore,' the Metro picturization of Jack London's celebrated novel,…

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Headline: Queen's Theatre
Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1924-11-21
Summary:

Yesterday, the Metro production 'The Mutiny of the Elsinore' began its five days run in the Queen's Theatre. The film is based on Jack London's story of a conflict between strong men of the sea. It stars Mitchell Lewis and he is supported by Helen Ferguson, William V. Mong,…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-11-21
Summary:

Thrills of the most intense description were the order of the day yesterday when the new Metro special production, 'The Mutiny of the Elsinore,' with an all-star cast, was the feature attraction at the Queen's Theatre. It is the picturization of the late Jack London's novel…

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1924-11-27
Summary:

The Golden Snare,' a screen version of James Oliver Curwood story, under the direction of David Hartford for release by Associated First National comes to the Queen's Theatre for four days. Lewis S. Stone, who already featured in Curwood's picture included 'The River's…