“MISS NEW ZEALAND’*
SUCCESS AT HOLLYWOOD. (By Wire—Special to News.) Auckland, Last Night. “Miss New Zealand” (Mies Dale Austen) received an enthusiastic welcome when she returned to Auckland by the Aorangi last Sunday. Next day she appeared personally at the Strand Theatre with her two reel Metro-Gold-wyn-Mayer prod-action, “Miss New Zealand in Movieland.” Dale Austen has achieved greater success in Hollywood than any other winner of British Empire screen contests. After difficult teste she was offered a contract bv 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 an offer of the second feminine lead in Tim McCoy’s production "The Bushranger,” an Australian story.
Yesterday, Mr. Henry Hayward, chairman of the Fuller-Hayward Theatres, received the following cable from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer: “Miss Dale Awten has upheld the highest traditions of New Zealand' by reaching the world’s screen. It is a creditable accomplishment. 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 play the lead in Rudall Hayward’s New Zealand drama "The Bush Cinder•Ha.*
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Taranaki Daily News, 23 May 1928, Page 9
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