OUTDOOR DRAMA
JOHN WATERS, DIRECTOR John Waters, the director who spent fourteen years training for his job, and who has attained front-rank distinction as a creator of outdoor drama, has been signed to a new contract by Paramount, the organisation that gave him the big chance. Jesse L. Lasky, first vice-president in charge of production, made Waters a director in February 1926 after he had proved a valuable assistant to such established megaphone wielders as Erust Lubitsch, George B. Seitz, Raoul Walsh and others. ' He was given the Zane Grey story “Born to the West” to direct and the finished product was such that other Zane Greys followed in rapid succession among them “Man of the Forest,’ “Forlorn River,” “The Mysterious Rider,” and more recently “Drums of the Desert,” which was made on the same scale as “The Vanishing Race” and in the same locale.
His first picture under his new contract will be “Nevada” a Zane Grey western.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 17
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159OUTDOOR DRAMA Sun (Auckland), Volume I, Issue 168, 6 October 1927, Page 17
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