PLAZA THEATRE

Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 83, Issue 39, 16 February 1939, Page 9

PLAZA THEATRE

“SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS.” Perhaps the most remarkable fact about the Walt Disney coloured feature, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs,” which is enjoying a season at the Plaza Theatre, is its universal appeal. To cinema-goers familiar with the cartoonist’s former characters, the present full-length film will come as something of a surprise, for it has all the elements of great entertainment, romance, pathos, suspense and humour. The film is a technical masterpiece, gaudy colours being entirely eliminated in favour of subdued half-tones. It has beauty as well as entertainment value, and is one of the most remarkable features to have been presented in this country. The story, familiar to all who have read fairy tales in their youth has been faithfully adhered to, with slight alterations to make it conform to the special purposes of the screen. The wicked queen and the prince are there, portrayed with a fidelity pleasing to the minds of youth, and and all the other characters have been treated with the same care. Walt Disney and his fellow-artists have captured to perfection the dream-like reality of the fable and made of it a remarkable screen presentation. On the supporting programme is the latest 1939 “March of Time.”

“Miss Fix-It.” Announced as the first o£ Jane Withers’ 1938-39 pictures for 20th. Century-Fox, “Miss Fix-it,” which opens on Saturday 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 he runcle 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,” Jane’s uncle is given the chance to take over, with his old crew cheering his come-back

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.