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: 1923-10-31 - 1923-10-31
Summary:

Nazimova plays the name part in Oscar Wilde's masterpiece, 'Salome.'

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-11-03
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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-11-05 - 1923-11-13
Summary:

Today at 5.15 and 9.15, Nazimova in Oscar Wilde's 'Salome.' But not for children.

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1923-11-07 - 1923-11-10
Summary:

Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' with Nazimova at 5.15 & 9.15 only.

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-11-07 - 1923-11-09
Summary:

5.15 and 9.15 only, Oscar Wilde's 'Salome' with Nazimova.

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Headline: The Coronet
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-11-07 - 1923-11-07
Summary:

See Nazimova in Oscar Wilde's 'Salome.' It is showing today at 5.15 and 9.15, but not for children.

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1923-11-07
Summary:

Coronet Theatre is going present 'Salome,' a photoplay made from the play of the same name by Oscar Wilde. The photoplay features Nazimova and is based on the theme of Strauss opera. The artistic beauty of the setting is carefully studied in the film and objectionable matters are…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-11-07
Summary:

Rarely has it been given to a moving picture to create such a furor in artistic circles as did 'Salome' upon its first presentation in New York a few months ago. Ancient Greece and its glorious poesy had an irresistible attraction for Oscar Wilde. To make the film was no easy matter.…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1923-11-08 - 1923-11-08
Summary:

Oscar Wilde's 'Salome,' Nazimova's supreme performance.

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Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1923-11-17
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Headline: Pathe-Baby
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-04-11 - 1924-04-11
Summary:

Films just arrived $1.50 per reel. 4. 'Lion and Tiger' (instructive), 10. 'A Clever Chimpanzee' (comedy), 15. 'The Zebra' (instructive), 16. 'The Sacred Scarabers' (instructive), 17. 'The Baby Garden' (for little children), 29. 'An Ingenious…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-05-14
Summary:

Only two African elephants are found in the United States, according to Martin Johnson, big game hunter, whose photoplay 'Trailing African Wild Animals,' released by Metro, is at the World today. One of the most amazing scenes of wild animal life ever filmed is the stampede of these…

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Headline: This Freedom
Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1924-08-30
Summary:

(To the Editor S. C. M. Post) Sir, – A week ago I attended the Coronet Theatre and saw a picture of Boy Scouts at a Peak garden party, the name of the mansion something like an orange. A piper piped and the picture informed us the music was exhilarating. I believe it, for suddenly comes a well-…

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Newspaper Source: Hong Kong Telegraph
Publication Date: 1925-08-04 - 1925-08-05
Summary:

Daily at 2.30, 5.15, 7.15 and 9.15, Sunday at 6, 7.30 and 9.15, Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4th and 5th, Madge Bellamy supported by Oscar the Elephant in 'The Soul of the Beast,' together with 'Sunday Calm,' a 2-reel 'Our Gang' comedy, and our own Topical.

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-08-04 - 1925-08-05
Summary:

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4th and 5th, Madge Bellamy, supported by Oscar the Elephant in 'The Soul of the Beast,' together with 'Sunday Calm,' a 2-reel ‘Our Gang' comedy and our own Topical. Change of programme every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Pictures shown at…

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Headline: The Queen's
Newspaper Source: The China Mail
Publication Date: 1925-08-04 - 1925-08-05
Summary:

Tuesday and Wednesday, August 4th and 5th, Madge Bellamy supported by Oscar, the Elephant in 'The Soul of the Beast,' together with 'Sunday Calm,' a 2-reel Our Gang comedy and our own Topical. Change of programme every Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. Pictures shown at the Queen…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-09-02
Summary:

The pulchritude of the Ziegfeld 'Follies' girls has won for many of them lucrative offers in motion pictures. The world-famous beauty chorus as a whole appears in a cinema production for the first time in 'The Great White Way,' a picturization of H. C. Witwer's story,…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-11-17
Summary:

His Lordship the Chief Justice, presiding at a sitting of the Bankruptcy Court on Saturday, expressed surprise that a cinema business should be unable to meet its expenses in these times. Oscar Hammerstein, with his millions, failed to draw the public to his London Opera House. It has been said…

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Newspaper Source: South China Morning Post
Publication Date: 1925-12-02
Summary:

(Our Own Correspondent) London, Oct 30 – There is something pathetic about the eagerness to find a way of utilizing our Wembley white elephant. But, there is not much promise in the latest suggestion put forward by Mr. Herbert Wilcox, of turning it into a British film centre rivalling Hollywood…