STATE THEATRE

Dominion, Volume 29, Issue 256, 25 July 1936, Page 13

STATE THEATRE

“Little Miss Nobody” If vou like Jane Withers you will like the film, “Little Miss Nobody,” which now showing at the State Theatre; and C you don’t; like Jane Withers you wffl change your views and you will still hk the show. “Little Miss Nobody is a hilarious comedy of a namelesa little orphan whose pranks constantly get her hot wate P r, and who could portray the role better than Jajie Withers? Shea roguish and she’s cute, and she simp y bubbles with laughter and song. Jane is just the sort of child you would like your own to be, although perhaps a uttle harum-scarum. Her ca P| l . va^<.P® l ali tv is at its best in Little Mn>s M body” and there is not a foot of drabncss in the whole picture. It is not merely a child’s picture-adults will find it just na absorbing. Just the right blend of humour and pathos is given to ® a first-class story. Jane is to m sch ev ous nameless orphan who wins iloabl ® for her first name. She tries hard to be -ood but only succeeds in getting m bad. Her heart is as big as the sky. and mal *y of her scrapes arise direotly trom the fact that she is constantly trying to shield her pal, Betty Jean. Jane even goes so tor when, her real father appears to claim ’her, as to switch identities with he other little girl to save her from betog adopter by an arrogant, newly-r-ch woman. This proves Jane’s undoing, hoXver, for the matrons of the insßtuUoTm&onstrueheraet. She is eent to the reformatory. En route there she makes he? escape and finds refuge in a shop owned by an escaped convict, Harrv Carey. Jane confesses the entire ££ to him and he, won by her generoaty. arranges a secret meetmg. with Betty lean who is living nearby. Dutch another criminal who is blackmailing Carev because of his past, overhears the conversation and locks Carey in. a closet' intending to ransack Betty Jean e; house. Unw Jane contrives to outwit the crooa and win happiness for herself and all those who aided and loved her, makes her (inert film to date. “Then Came the Indians, a rollicking new song hit, presents Jane with the opportunity to sing, danc c perform her inimitable downing. There is a strong supporting programme.