AMUSEMENTS

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume LXVII, Issue 12485, 20 October 1938, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

Town Hall A reporter who goes hunting for goats on Christmas Eve with a missing heiress, two hours before he is scheduled, to marry the newspaper’s leading girl reporter, provides the theme for the new Columbia comedy, “No Time to Marry,” showing finally to-night at the Town Hall Theatre. Richard Arlen, Mary and Lionel Stander. are . featured, with Virginia I)ale, Marjorie Gatson, Thurston Hail and Arthur Loft in other important roles. The Regent Dramatic interludes in the life of a typical American family are shown in “You're Only Young Once,” which comes to the Regent Theatre to-day. The new comedy offers Hollywood’s conception of ah ideal family group. Lewis Stone is the father, understanding and tolerant. Cecilia Parker is the daughter, just put of college and engaged .tp a rhining engineer. Mickey Rooney, is the son, playing his first growh-up rplo. • The story concerns the, first vacation foy the Hardy family in eleven years. Going to Catalina Island,, they encounter adventures strange to their small-town experience. Judge Hardy, played by Stone, is forced to postpone his expressed ambition to catch a swordfish to straighten out internal entanglements. When the vacation is suddenly interrupted by trouble at home it is Judge Hardy who again proves his right to be head of the family, by saving the family funds.