L'Animatoscope d'H. Welby Cook (< 1^er juillet 1897)

Harry Welby Cook présente son animatoscope :

AN enterprising showman, named Mr. Welby Cook, has just reached Hongkong after a tour in the interior of China with an “ Animatoscope,” Mr. Cook left Tientsin and reached Peking in company with Mr. Linton. Here he showed for 17 days with the utmost success, and be was engaged by Sir Claude MacDonald to give a display at the British Legation on the occasion of the departure of the French minister. Sir Claude is described is having keen delighted with the exhibition and at his request the picture of the serpentine dancer was repeated, The Chinese themselves were fairly captivated by the show and Mr. Cook has nothing but good to say of the treatment he received in the Imperial City. He also gave displays at the Spanish Legation and in public with the utmost success, The audience often included the Royal Princes and a son of Li Hung-chang, and a son of the Marquis Tseng was a patron every night M. Welby, who has a really firstclass collection of British and Continental views, opens at the Theatre Royal on Saturday night for short season.

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Hong Kong Telegraph, mercredi 18 août 1897, p. 2.

Il se rend ensuite à Pékin.