ONLY FEW WEEKS!

Sun (Auckland), Volume 1, Issue 38, 7 May 1927, Page 11

ONLY FEW WEEKS!

AUCKLANDERS MUST DECIDE SELECTING “MISS NEW ZEALAND 1927” Dominion’s Greatest Screen Contest TIME is on the wing. Only a few weeks are now left for New Zealand girls to enter for the most remarkable competition ever promoted in this country. The question at issue is:Who will be “Miss New Zealand 1927”? Auckland can rest assured that Wellington will not permit the Queen City to have it all its own way. .. Christchurch and Dunedin, too, are keenly interested in the contest.

In the southern centres there has been no dearth of interest in the compaign to discover New Zealand’s most gifted daughter. Entries have been coming forward in considerable numbers. Therefore, Aucklanders take heed. Do not let this opportunity pass. £9OO IN PRIZES This is how the prize of £9OO is made up: £ Two first-class fares (for self and chaperon) from New Zealand to Los Angeles and return .. .. 225 Studio engagement with MetroGoldwyn - Mayer Incorporated, for duration of a feature film at £25 a week, valued at 275 Pocket money 100 Wardrobe 150 Chaperon’s allowance 150 Total £9OO SECOND SEMI-FINALIST CHOSEN MISS MONA JEFFREYS SELECTED BY SUN READERS The second week’s poll for the choice of a semi-finalist closed last night. The voting was much heavier that it was for the previous week, and the following were the leading six competitors at 9 p.m.: No. 22—Miss Mona Jeffreys .. 1 No. 19—Miss D. McPhail .... 2 No. 26—Miss V. Boles 3 No. 13—Miss Billie Andreasson 4 No. 9—Miss M. Kerr 5 No. 17—Miss Q. Graham .... 6 Miss Jeffreys is therefore the second semi-finalist out of the eight to be chosen by SUN readers, and her picture appears on page 18 of this issue. Voting for the third week’s semifinalist commences to-day, and will be taken on all the competitors left in numbering from No. 1 to No. 41, excluding No. 4, who has withdrawn, and Nos. 15 and 22, already selected. Photographs of all these competitors will be found on pages 24 and 26 of this issue. ONLY FEW WEEKS Entry forms are available at THE SUN Office on application. The duration of the “Miss New Zea-

land 1927” competition is limited to a few weeks. There is every indication that the competition will be one of the most eagerly contested. THE SUN has already received numbers of photographs. We want them in as quickly as possible. Everyone should enter into the spirit of this great adventure. PUBLISHED PHOTOGRAPHS Photographs of approved candidates will be taken free of charge by the Bell Studio, Karangahape Road. Additional photos of contestants appear in this issue. Others will appear during the competition, and each will have a distinguishing number. Application forms are obtainable at THE SUN Office, and at the Regent, Majestic and Strand Theatres.

MORE ESSAYS WANTED

“WHAT i THINK OF THE COM PETITION”

The winner of to-day’s essay competition is Miss Betty Moyle, of Sturges Road, Henderson. “The Miss New Zealand 1927” competition is bound up with our national ideals in such a way that

it is impossible to feel national pride and not be keenly interested

in the competition. In these days when the narrow old clan spirit is dead and a spirit of international brotherhood is taking its place, it is most essential that New Zea-

land should be featured in so widereaching an industry as the mov-ing-picture business. “It is important, also that ‘Miss New Zealand 1927’ should understand this, and be fully cognisant of the duties which will be hers.

“Commercially, industrially and spiritually her influence will be feit by us, and when we realise this we realise also that we can-

not be too careful, too painstaking, in our selection of so important a figure as ‘Miss New Zealand 1927.’ ”

A cheque for £ 1 has been forwarded to Miss Moyle.—Ed., THE SUN.