RIOTOUS FUN

Press, Volume LXXV, Issue 22662, 17 March 1939, Page 5

RIOTOUS FUN

In what is declared to be the best picture she has ever made —the happiest and the funniest—Jane Withers comes to the Mayfair Theatre to-day in "Miss Fix-It.” first of Twentieth Century-Fox's 1938-39 pictures for the popular young star, with Gloria Stuart and Henry Wilcoxon heading a splendid cast which includes Helen West-

Jane Withers Starred in “Miss Fix-It”

ley, Jed Prouty, Douglas Fowley and Robert Allen. ‘‘Miss Fit-It” gives Jane almost unlimited range for her high spirited talents, and she keeps people laughing every exciting moment of it. There is, in addition to some of the most hilarious comedy seen for a long time, a tender quality to Janes performance that will endear her even more to the legion of her admirers who in the past have loved her for her sheer exuberance. The film opens with Jane m a fashionable girls’ boarding school, selling her entire wardrobe to raise the fare to Hollywood, where she plans to visit her film director-uncle, Henry Wilcoxon, whom she has never seen. Arriving at his Beverley 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. Jane crashes one of the big studios, and after a wild chase with its police force gets into the head producer's office where she makes an impassioned plea in her uncle's behalf. The producer is more interested in giving Jane a chance to play in pictures herself. And the scenes which follow offer an unusually complete insight into the operations of a motion picture studio. Wilcoxon, meanwhile, appears as an extra on the set where Jane is being coached for the star role. When the director, who tries to make Jane look bad. "blows up” on the job, Wilcoxon is offered the seat—and with Gloria Stuart once more at his side, the romantic situation is well in hand.