Du Yuesheng thought for a moment, and vaguely remembered that once when he passed by the "Apollo Cinema", he heard passers-by say that a foreign man came to the theater, who was not only extremely powerful and capable of lifting thousands of pounds of heavy iron, but also could bend iron and roll steel, split bricks and wood. Pen @ fun @ pavilion wWw. ｂｉｑUｇE。 info: "I don't know if the person I'm hearing about is what you're looking for. Du Yuesheng said.

"It's okay, tell me what you know. Chen Yaoyang said.

"That's right, I heard that there is indeed a foreign force in the 'Apollo Movie Theater' who performs the art of lifting iron and bending steel, and those who have seen his performance say that the strength of this foreign devil is indeed amazing!" Du Yuesheng told everything he knew.

Chen Yaoyang asked again: "Where exactly is the 'Apollo Cinema' you are talking about?"

Du Yuesheng replied: "At No. 52 North Sichuan Road." ”

"Very well, I'll go over and meet him tomorrow. Chen Yaoyang said resolutely.

"Brother Chen, you don't want to compete with that Yolux!" Du Yuesheng asked a little curiously.

"Well, that's right, since he insulted China with wild words, then I want to see what kind of ability he has to dare to be so arrogant and arrogant. ”

"Okay, then I will definitely go with the little brother to cheer for Brother Chen. Du Yuesheng thought in his heart, this Chen Yaoyang's martial arts are indeed excellent, seeing that he beat more than a dozen doormen in three strokes and two by two, he must seize the opportunity to envelop his heart, so that he can use it for himself, and in the future, he will have to rely on him to expand his territory in Shanghai for himself! As for tomorrow's competition between him and Yanglishi, although it is a little dangerous, it will not be a complete defeat, at least there is no problem in self-protection. So, Du Yuesheng and Chen Yaoyang made an appointment to gather at the "Apollo Theater" at noon tomorrow, and then went into the theater together to challenge Opiying.

The spring sun shines brightly through the light clouds, shining on the streets and alleys of Shanghai, and the bluestone-paved roads are white, reflecting the silver light, dazzling people's eyes. Chen Yaoyang, under the guidance of Liu Jinshui, and Du Yuesheng came to the door of the "Apollo Movie Theater" as promised.

The "Apollo Cinema" is located at No. 52 North Sichuan Road in Shanghai and is a building in the style of Western classicism. The main entrance of the movie theater is three-entry, and there is an open-air balcony above the main entrance, and a row of white iron railings is enclosed in front of the balcony, and six red Chinese characters of "Apollo Film Theater" are hung above the iron railing, and there is a row of English small characters for translation under the Chinese characters. Behind the balcony is a gallery with four "Ionic pilasters" supported by four "Ionic pilasters", the top of which are decorated with carved stripes.

Chen Yaoyang first introduced to Liu Jinshui: "This is Du Yuesheng and Du brothers. Then he turned around and introduced to Du Yuesheng: "This is Liu Jinshui, I call him 'Brother Shui'." ”

Liu Jinshui and Du Yuesheng said "hello" to each other, and after a few words of greeting, they only heard Du Yuesheng say to Chen Yaoyang: "Brother Chen, I asked people to investigate in the morning, and it turned out that this Yanglux was hired by a wealthy British businessman named "Walling" in Shanghai. This wealthy merchant specially sent him to perform all over the world and promote some Western goods for him. ”

"I see, what a 'celebrity effect'!" Chen Yaoyang said to himself.

"What do you mean, what effect?" asked Liu Jinshui puzzled.

Chen Yaoyang explained: "It is to make a certain person very famous, so that people all over the country and even the world know him, and then use this person's fame to speak for himself......" Speaking of this, he looked at Liu Jinshui and Du Yuesheng's puzzled expressions, and quickly explained: "Endorsement is our hometown dialect, that is, the meaning of advertising some of our own products or enterprises." ”

"Oh oh" Liu Jinshui and Du Yuesheng nodded in unison.

There were many people who came to watch Opiyin's performance, and Chen Yaoyang and Du Yuesheng took the tickets that Liu Jinshui snapped up and squeezed into the theater with the people who came to watch the performance. When you enter the theater, you will find a rotunda hall. The hall is supported by eight marble columns, surrounded by circular corridors that circumvent the hall. In the center of the hall is a large spiral staircase, which is paved with white marble and luxuriously decorated, in a European-style court style. All this is nothing in the eyes of Chen Yaoyang, a future person, but in the eyes of Du Yuesheng and Liu Jinshui, they have seen it for the first time in their lives, they are not only dumbfounded, but also look around along the way, and even keep talking to each other and praise loudly.

In fact, there was no cinema for early movie screenings in Shanghai, and you had to go to a teahouse or restaurant to watch movies, which probably followed the custom of drinking tea and listening to books in Shanghai. Since 1897, movies have been screened in Tianhua Tea Garden, Qi Garden, and Tongqing Tea Garden in Shanghai. Watching a movie is different from listening to a book, it must be cut off from the light and put the audience in the dark. As a result, these teahouses have set up a separate room for the screening of films, and the teahouses sell tickets to all those who come to watch the movies outside the door. However, due to the dilapidated projectors and film rolls carried by the projectors, as well as the dim light and blurred images, the film was shown as if it was drizzling and the film was often interrupted, resulting in a deterioration in business revenue.

In 1899, there was a foreigner named Remas, he took over the projector's projector and film roll, and then after careful planning, the screening venue was selected in a private room downstairs of the most famous teahouse "Qinglian Pavilion" in Shanghai, and hung many movie stills and posters outside the door of the elegant room, and at the same time hired several Indians dressed in red and green to blow and play at the gate of the elegant room, which really attracted a large number of audiences. Later, Remas built a simple cinema with a capacity of more than 250 seats at the Zhapu intersection of Haining Road, which was the first cinema in Shanghai, "Hongkou Cinema".

Due to the huge profits from the screening of films, some foreign compradors, local powers, north-south consortia, gangster leaders, and wealthy families flocked to follow suit, and in a short period of time, dozens of cinemas appeared in Shanghai one after another, including the Victoria Cinema, the Apollo Cinema, the Npaia Cinema, and the Summer Peak Cinema.

Chen Yaoyang and others are already dressed in a relatively depressed manner, and it is not easy to have money to buy tickets and enter the theater. In the eyes of those rich sons, young ladies and rich women who think they are rich and have superior status, the three of them are just a group of clowns who can't climb the hall of elegance, a group of little deflated people who have never seen the world. Chen Yaoyang was very concerned about this, and coupled with Liu Jinshui and Du Yuesheng's shouting, his image was damaged. Seeing everyone's disdainful look in their eyes, I felt a burst of shame in my heart, and I really wanted to find a hole to get into immediately.

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