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“WOMAN WISE” Monte Blue is the star in “The Bush Leaguer.” the first feature on the programme now being shown at the Lyric Theatre. Monte stars as a modest young inventor and petrol-station owner, who breaks the monotony of life by pitching for the baseball team. Fate enters in the form of a beautiful motorist, who, stopping to have the petrol tank replenished, so interests the bespectacled youth that he accepts a job on a professional team in her home town, Los Angeles. What follows is a riot. I The second feature is “Woman I Wise” featuring June Collyer, William Russell and Walter Fidgeon. Miss Collyer is cast as a beautiful young American who goes abroad to assist the L T .S. Consul in the management of the United States Legation. What happens to her furnishes the basis of one of the best comedy-dramas screened in recent months.
After making more than 25 screen tests of various candidates for SteI phan in “The Patriot,” starring Emil ! .Tannings, Paramount selected Harry ! Cording, hitherto unknown picture 1 actor.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 13
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177LYRIC Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 336, 23 April 1928, Page 13
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