TALKIES

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 1, Issue 65, 22 September 1939, Page 3

TALKIES

GIRLS FETE JACKIE COOPER,

FREDDIE BARTHOLOMEW Jackie Cooper and Freddie Bartholomew will be as popular in grownup roles as they were in their many screen hits as child actors. Evidence of that probability came when three hundred beautiful co-eds swarmed over a campus location set where the stars weve busy on outdoor scenes for 'their new Universal film, "Spirit of Culver. ' "We aren't looking for autographs" the girls explained while watching the actors parade in smart cadet uniforms . "We came to invite Jackie and Freddie to dinner," D'rector Joseph finding difficulty wrth so many visitors, fin* ally agreed that his stars might keep the date. But on one condition. Thl gitfls were asked to stay clear of the set while the cameras turned. The conditions were okay. That night the girls played hostesses to Cooper, Tim Holt, Jackie Movan and twenty more actorcadets. Burt Kelly, the associate produce went along as chaperone lot' j the group.

JANE WITHERS IN NEW HIT

Announced as the first of Jane Withers' new scries of major pictures for 20th Century-Fox "Miss Fix It" with Gloria Stuart and Henry Wilcoxon featured in a .splendid cast. The story deals "with the hilar ! our> and often heart-tugging adventures of a boarding school girl ay bo goes to Holh'wood to visit her movie di-rcctor-uncle, whom she lias never seen. (Finding him down on his luck, deserted by his fair-weather friends and unable to get a job, she sets about —in typical Jane Withers fashion—to patch up his shatcred career, and winds up ]j.v making one for herself in the movies. Helen Westlcy, Jed Proutv, Douglas Fowley and Robert Allen have supporting roles in "Miss Fix It."' Herbert I. Tweeds directed and John | Stone was associate producer.

HE'S A PRIZE MILLINER

Humphrey Warner Bros star, featured ?>in "The Amazing Dr. Clitterhou.se" lias revealed a ne/vv accomplishment—he can design women's hats. He proved it at a party given by Gloria Stuart. One of the features of the party ay as a hat designing contest for the men. Among the contestants were Gr,oucho Marx, Mel Norman Krasna, Dr Eugene Frenkc and Bogart.. Each man was given cloth, wire, artificial flowers and needle and thread. The one who made the best hat i.n half an hour got a magnum of champagne. Bogart won with a creation which Mayo Mcthot 1; now wearing—and very proudly too.

ARIZONA DAYS

"Arizona Days' the story of th* mishaps and f":lventures of an, oldtime minstrel troupe which gets stranded in an. Arizona cow. town and falls afoul of a gang op rustlers stars Tex a six foot Texan,, who shoots, rides and sings in a way that will win him hosts of fans. Ritter Uikes the part of Tex Mallinson, a cowboy- with theatrical ambitions, who joins the s'how after paying off its back debts. Boy meets girl, bUu tremble with a gang ol rustlers follows. Eventually this is straightened out an:l the h?ro gets his lady. With her he leaves tewn with the "West's? Biggest Little Show" singing "I found my girl in Tombstone."