Enthusiastic over the possibilities of movie making in the Orient, Miss Betty Compson and her husband, Mr, Irving Weinberg, were to-day raising $1,000,000 capital' to organize a motion picture studio in Shanghai.
The studio will produce talking pictures in the Chinese language for the most part although a few productions in English may be attempted, according to Mr. Weinberg.
Plans of the couple were told to their associates to-day, as soon a8 they disembarked from the steamship which returned them to.the United States from the Orient, Det-Inspr, Schmidt It is expected that the company will start' construction of studios
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