JANE WITHERS STARRED

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 39, 16 February 1939, Page 3

JANE WITHERS STARRED

“MISS FIX-IT” AT PLAZA HEARTBREAKS AND LAUGHTER Still a mischievous child, but with an even more attractive personality and finer acting ability, Jane Withers returns to the screen in “Miss Fix-it,” which is to screen on Saturday at the Plaza Theatre. Gloria Stuart and Henry Wilcoxon are others in a strong cast. A number of films have been produced in recent years wherein a great film star at Hollywood endeavours to stage a return to popularity after he has been labelled a “fallen star,” but a rather different note is struck in this picture, where a picture director (Henry Wilcoxon), not a star, endeavours to reestablish himself. Jane Withers is cast as this director’s niece, and she decides (when she is at boarding school) that she will pack her bags and visit this great man. Little does she realise that he has lost his job, and when she arrives at his palatial home in Hollywood she finds an auction sale in progress. Gloria Stuart, formerly the director’s secretary, and very much in love with the man, finds out who the girl is and takes her under her wing. Between them they decide to get the directoi* back to his former position, and this they do, but only after considerable difficulty, heartbreaks, and laughter. Helen Wetsley is strongly cast.

Mack's second production in Hollywood for Ocean Films will be “The Mad Monk of San Michel.” He hopes to sign Robert Morley as star.

Geraldine Fitzgerald has been added to the cast of “Wuthering Heights.” Sam Goldwyn borrowed her on the strength of her work for Warners in “Dark Victory.”