‘MISS NEW ZEALAND' BACK FROM STATES

Manawatu Times, Volume LIII, Issue 6617, 23 May 1928, Page 8

‘MISS NEW ZEALAND' BACK FROM STATES

Achieved Outstanding Success at Hollywood

QUOTA DIFFICULTIES COMPELLED RETURN

“Times” Special. AUCKLAND, Last Night,

“Miss New Zealand” (Dale Austen) received an enthusiastic welcome when she returned to Auckland by the. Aorangi last Sunday. The next day she appeared personally at the Strand Theatre with her tworeel, Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr production “Miss New Zealand in Movicland.” Miss Dale Austen has achieved greater success in Hollywood than any other winner of British Empire screen contests. After difficult tests she was offered a contract by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and worked in “The Actress” (Norma . Shearer), “ Detectives ” (George Arthur and Karl Dane), “ Diamond Handcuffs ” (Eleanor Boardman and Conrad Nagel) and “Polly Preferred” (Marion Davies). Her crowning achievement was the offer of second feminine lead in Tim McCoy’s production “ The Bushranger,” an Australian story.

Yesterday Mr. Henry Hayward, chairman of Fuller-Hay ward theatres, received the following cable from the Metro-Goldwyn-Maycr people:— “Miss Dale Austen has upheld the highest traditions of How Zealand by reaching the world’s screen in creditable. accomplishments.” Owing to difficulties connected with the British quota for residential immigrants “Miss New Zealand” could only stay a limited period in America. Mr Hayward however recalled her to ploy the lead in Rudall Hayward’s New Zealand drama “The Bush Cinderella.”