STATE THEATRE

Wairarapa Times-Age, 24 February 1939, Page 2

STATE THEATRE

‘•MISS FIX-IT.” Jane Withers comes tonight at S’ p.m. to the State Theatre in "Miss Fix-It," described as her happiest, funniest and most gripping picture to date. Gloria Stuart and Henry Wilcoxon also head a splendid cast which includes Helen Westley, Jed Prouty, Douglas Fowley and Robert Allen. “Miss FixIt 11 affords Jane almost unlimited range for her high spirited talents, and she keeps you laughing, thrilling and living every exciting moment of it. There is, in addition to some of the most hilarious comedy seen in many a month, a tender, heart-warming quality to Jane’s performance that will endear her even more to the legion of her admirers who have heretofore loved her for her sheer exuberance. The fastmoving screen play opens with Jane in a fashionable girls’ boarding school, selling her entire wardrobe to raise the fare to Hollywood, where she plans to visit her movie director-uncle, Henry Wilcoxon, whom she Has never seen. Arriving at his Beverly Hills mansion just as its lavish furnishings are being sold at auction, Jane learns that her uncle is down on his luck, has taken to drink and can no longer get a job. Whereupon she conspires with Gloria Stuart, Wilcoxon’s former secretary — who admits that she loves him —to rehabilitate her uncle. On this theme the picture develops on entertaining lines. Frances Hyland and Albert Ray wrote the screen play of “Miss Fix-It” from an original idea by Frank Fenton and Lynn Root. John Stone was associate producer and Herbert I. Leeds directed.