Mr, Hough, who was born in Philadelphia, was to have celebrated his birthday next month, After spending some time with the Edison Phonograph Company, he paid his fist visit to the Far' East in 1916, spending two years in Java. He later returned to the United States, and the Argentine and helped to develop the interests of the eviapany there, felurning to America in 1982, After luking a brief vacation, he came to Shanghai at the beginning of 1933 as managing director of the R.C.A. Victor Company of China, 'Me. Hough's father, it may be tecalied, was also an enthusiastic follower of baseball, the game to' which Me, Frank Hough devoted much of his attention. The elder Mr. Hough was manager of the Philadephia American League Base-tall team a great many years ago.
During the time during which he was working in America, Mr. Hough owned a factory of his own at Rochester, New York, and here he as engaged for a long period on the development of the "Movette," tne of the first of the 16 millimetre ype of moving picture cameras. Ho to spent some time working en a elt-cading magazine, to be used in Dhotogeaphle work.
Mr, Hough was very popular among.
fellow countrymen in Shanghai, ind wag a member of the Shanghai Club, te "American Club, the Columbia Country Club and the
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