The Archive · 1923

The Local Talent

i Mr. Chamberlin and Mr. A. J. Thomas, president of the board of directors, have been looking round within the native city for the incation of the first theatre and expect to have it in operation within days, to be followed by another: half-a-dozen shortly. Notwithstand-ling the demand of the foreign population of the Oriental cities for better films, Mr. Chamberlin said that his associates are primarily interested in the Chinese a3 patrons, and that a large number of stories are in the hands of "'con-

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