Jane Withers “Always in Trouble

Manawatu Times, Volume 64, Issue 96, 26 April 1939, Page 11

Jane Withers “Always in Trouble

SHIPWRECKED, MAROONED. THREATENED BY SMUGGLERS (State: Screening Friday.) Always filled with good intentions, always trying to help folks out, always hoping to square things up, and always—Trouble, Trouble, “Always in Trouble.” That’s Jane Withers to a “T.” This time Jane’s u poor little rich girl whose family has gone high hat. Remembering the good old days before riches made Dad a slave to a Board of Directors, Mother a social climber, Sister the prey of fortune-hunters, and Uncle Ed a retired playboy, Jane decides to do something about it to bring the family down to earth. Her first step is to make the family stop nagging poor Dad. She arranges for him to be left home for their yachting trip and makes young Robert Kellard, one of the magnate’s employes, take over the helm of the craft. When the folks discover the substitution they accuse poor Bob o£ kidnapping them. In the midst of all the tumult the yacht strikes a reef and begins to sink. Jane, Bob, Big Sister. Mother and Uncle Ed make their way via a rubber raft to a strange shore—what seems to be a desert island. Jane induces Bob to pretend lie’s really a gangster and give the family a thorough lesson iu obeying orders. Bob •agrees to keep this secret from all but Jean Rogers, Jane’s Big Sister, for whom ho is beginning to fall. Jane’s cure starts to work but is suddenly sidetracked by the advent of a gang of smugglers using the island as a hideaway. The mobsters decide to hold the group for ransom. The poor kidnappers find their profession full of pitfalls aud woe before Dad finally arrives with a Coast Guard rescue party.