Annotation

The Queen’s Theatre Weekly, ten of whose issues are collected in the University of Hong Kong Libraries, is one of the earliest weeklies financed and published by Hong Kong cinema theatres for their own benefit and not intended for sale. They offer insights into how such institutions were run. The first issue is a special edition marking the opening of Queen’s Theatre. An editorial foreword congratulates the theatre on its launch and notes the importance it can play in ‘developing and reforming society’. The issue also contains an article titled ‘What to pay attention to when movie-going’, which explains the manners appropriate for watching a film. The front page of each issues bears  words ‘The most magnificent, the most artistic, the most elite, and the most valuable cinema of East Asia’. Most of the magazines’ contents were concentrated on screenings, film reviews and comments.