Star To Visit New Zealand

Auckland Star, Volume LXIX, Issue 208, 3 September 1938, Page 7 (Supplement)

Star To Visit New Zealand

WITH the size of the following enjoyed by "Hopalong Cassidy" pictures in this country, it is of some importance to report the receipt of advice from America to the effect that George Hayes, known in the Clarence Mulford stories as Windy, plans visiting New Zealand in tne near future. Information to this effect was received at the local office of Paramount Pictures, Inc., in the last American mail from Mr. Albert Deane, an executive of the company in New York. The text of Mr. Deane'e letter is as follows: "One of my visitors to-day was George Hayes, who plays the role of Windy in the Hopalong Cassidy series. Among other things, George told me that the largest volume of his fan mail, which is a very extensive fan mail, by the way, comes from New Zealand. He praises highly the intelligent tone of the letters from that part of the world, and he really has made it his foremost ambition to go down there as soon as as contractual obligations permit him to. To me this did not sound like one of the conventional statements of this nature, but a real honest-to-goodness ambition. "What i 9 driving him down there more than anything else is that he had heard about New Zealand's fish streams. He is a river and lake fisherman of the first water and has read every line he has been able to find about New Zealand as a fisherman's paradise." Windy is assured of a grand welcome in this country, particularly in provincial centres, where characters such as he are not entirely unfamiliar to the population.