"MISS FIX-IT"

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 33, 9 February 1939, Page 5

"MISS FIX-IT"

JANE WITHERS STARRED. Announced as the first of .Jane Withers’ 1935-39 pictures for 20th. Century-Fox, "Miss Fix-it,” which opens on Saturday of next week at the Plaza Theatre, finds Jane in the grandest surprise hit she has ever made. The story opens with Jane in a fashionable girls’ boarding school, selling her clothes to raise the fare to Hollywood, where she plans to visit her movie-director uncle. Jane discovers that her uncle has taken to drink, and can no longer get a job. She crashes a big studio, and lands a job in the movies herself. When the hot-headed director "blows up," Janes uncle is given the chance to take over, with his old crew cheering his comeback and the girl he loves right by his side. Gloria Stuart and Henry Wilcoxon head the cast, which includes Helen Westley. Jed Prouty. Douglas Fowley and Robert Allen.

Old Makes Way for X>w. The last of the famous old Holly-1 wood settings in which Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks. D. W. Grif-j fith, and others made their most famous silent picture are now' being de- J molished on the back lot of the United Artists studio to nake room for Samuel Goldwyn’s setting, reported to be the biggest ever built in Ho' ywood, for "The Last Frontier.” Many of the Hollywood old-timers, when they heard these sets were be mg demolished, rushed out to the ba’k lot and had their last look and feel of them. Goldwyn. hearing that they were there, went on to the sets tro. and there was much reminiscing. The setting for "The Last Frontier.” for ! w’hich they must make room, will ie-j present a scene on one of the Fhil : p-i pine Islands. The picture will ji?r Gary Cooper and will go before th i cameras as soon as Cooper com-C? es] bis current role in Goldwyn’s “Thei Lady and the Cowboy."