RUBBISH HEAP CINEMA.
START ON WAY TO SUCCESS. Starting work at ninepence a week, Mr. George H. Barber, one of the self-made men in the Potteries, and a former Lord Mayor of Stoke, now controls a chain of cinemas. Mr. Barber, whose age is 71, was in turn a farm iad, pit- worker, and chemical works hand before ho invested the money from an invention in experimenting, as a pioneer, with cinema films. " I went round the country giving onenight film shows before I bought an old rubbish heap on which I built one of my first cinemas," Mr. Barber says. " I ran short of money before it was completed, however, and being unable to raise £IOO, even afc 10 per cent, interest, I opened it before it was finished, completing the building with the takings."
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21118, 27 February 1932, Page 2 (Supplement)
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