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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 365, 29 October 1932, Page 7

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NEW COMEDY TEAM IN "THE UNEXPECTED FATSHER." Slim Summerville and Zasu Pitts. j That is the star-sp-angled combina-' , tion of laugh experts that Universal ' has placed together for the first time jn "The Unexpected Father," the coming attraction at the Majestic Theatre on Thursday. It was popular demana that elevated the tall, lanky, Tjaden of "All Quiet on the Western Front" and the playful Marino whom .virtually every theatre-goer promptly recognises to feature picture stardom, and it, prohably, was a happy thought to team him with the girl who has been called

the screen's greatest comedienne, v/ist-ful-eyed Miss Pitts. Slim plays the part of a gawky fellow of the rural djstricts who suddenly discovers enough oil in his backyard to transform him, overnight, from overalls to a house full of servants and riches. Zasu enters the scene as a nurse from tha local dog hcspital who comes to the millionaire's house hy mistake to care for a sick puppy, but finds that Slim has just been adopted by a little waif of the streets who needs both care and love. There is a new "kid" sensation in the film, Cora Sue Collins, who boasts of four years of existonce and a great deal of natural aeting ahility and beauty, it is reported. Dorothy Christy, the blond, willowy "vamp" of many a devastating screen affair, Claude Allistsr, the popular English pomedian, Alison Skipworth, Grace Hampton, and Tyrell Davis are also prominent amorig the cast.-