New Zealand Made

Radio Record, Volume II, Issue 12, 16 November 1928, Page 12

New Zealand Made

A Picture Play

ISS DALE AUSTEN, the Dominion’s prettiest girl by yirtue of vote and acclamation in recent beauty contest, takes pride of place in "The Bush Cinderella," which is a creditable production, holding interest throughout. The story is a romantic one, With moments of excitement; the characters well cast, with one or two exceptions, the action taking place amid picturesqueness of bush track and forest, and bomeliness and hardship of life in the backblocks well and truly depicted. The charming prologue, showing a lover of two decades ago who kisses and rides away to be sniped in the veldt by a bullet in the Boer War, shows Miss Austen to greater advantage than the later scenes. In these, however, she acts quite naturally and looks attractive enough to justify an officer from a warship, trout-fishing in the solitudes, to lose his heart. The young naval man is extremely well done by an actor who looks the part, possessing a good figure and handsome head, with a distinction refreshing to an eye grown accustomed to the more ordinary type usually seen on American films.