Cinema Magnate's Views on the Future Pathe, of Pathe ris, is in Shanghai at present with plans for travelling in the country for several months to improve and expand their present business in China. M. Pathe belongs to one of the biggest companies in the world, one which came into being in Paris a few years subsequent to the invention of the moving picture machine and has now reached out to every country. The single country in which they do not operate is Japan, M. Pathe said, which exception is due to the Japanese failing for imitation and copying. In France alone, three big Pathe companies possess capital of $60,000,000, not counting the smaller subsidiary companies in which they e an interest. America is, at present, the largest field and the best-pay Waar rae Car China, to M. Path is not very hopeful just now. He that there is quite a good business to be done in the larger cities, but that the biggest business will not be touched until Chinese films. taken of the Chinese and suiting the Chinese tastes, are produced. This will. take some time and will involve special study.
The Pathe Company has sufferd a good deal from the world a They had heavy interests Russia and also in Germany, which represent. total losses. About a half interest of the company is in phonographs and that has suffered along with the pictures.
The Pathe Compan, was minated by Emile Pat and les IPathé who are respectively father and brother of M. Mas Pathe. These two men wer yonters, and when they succeeded in perfecting the _cinematograph machine, they immediately gave up all other things except the phonograph to that.
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