Moving Waters

NZ Truth, Issue 1189, 13 September 1928, Page 6

Moving Waters

IN the year of grape, 1911, a businesslike yoiing man of quiet, unassuming mien, descended upon the arid and plctureless town of Ashb.urtbn arid spake to himself" thiisly : "liO, here, indeed, is a. melon, ripe and" juicy unto the picking! " which, being meaneth that Harry Waters— the young man m question—; gave* Ashburton its first permanent picture show. ■Rut. of course, Ashb'urtdn couldn't • hold young Waters. It served its purpose, though, , and enabled him to get the ■'■run of moviedom's ropes. • Came ; the time when : he. choi'od.and fretted. in Ashburtbn'a narrow confines and the electric, signs m Cathe'l»*p.l Square (Chrlfctchurch) looked good to him. In these days there are many electric 'signs adorning Cathedral Square which depict the' lure of plcturedo:n. Seventeen years ago •Waters. "was Interested m 'only '■' o n e scintillating .legend; ■'•■ ■'•• '-..■■ V ' ' Now, as director of Chrlstchur'ch' cinemas; he pyinces a proprietary interest m most of them. ■'■- ' Anno Domini has handled him gently. True, there is a suspicion of kindly middle-age "spread," but if you take that away you still have the young man who breezed m from Ashburton and has since climbed the celluloid track to the pinnacle of achievement. MMiiiiiMiiiniiiiiiiiiiiiniiiniiiimiiiiiiiniiiuiiiiniiiiiniiinitniiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiniiiiiniiiitmniiiiniiiit*