According to a cable report, death has occurred yesterday in Tokyo of Mr. Thomas B. Cochrane, veteran film man and dean of motion pictures distributors in the Far East at the ripe age of seventy years. Mr. Cock-rane has been in Japan for the past forty years, engaging in the distribution of Hollywood made productions. At the time of his death, he was the supervisor for Paramount Films in the Far East having jurisdiction over the sale territories of China, Japan and the Philippine Islands.
Mr. Cochrane has been in ill health for the past several months and has only returned to Japan about a fortnight ago from a vacation to the States where he went to recuperate his health. In spite of his advanced age, the deceased was a very active and a conscientious executive.
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