ENTERTAINMENTS

Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 47, 24 January 1939, Page 3

ENTERTAINMENTS

REGENT THEATRE. “LOVE FINDS AXDY 11ARDY.” * ; ln Rove Kinds Andy Hardy/’ screening to-night at. the Regent, the Judge Hardy Family creates alternately humorous and dramatic cpirscdcs from the iito ot a typical American family. ‘‘Rove Finds Andy Hardy” has youthful charm, exuberance and M-inuilatmg momcino ot high comedy. The fourth episode in tlio lit** of the Hardy Family js by far tho most amusing ami entertaining to date. Once more it aifords the family, consisting ol Lewi* Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden and Betty Ro.n Clarke vitli every opportunity tor capitalising on the homespun drama of everyday lile. In addition, Judy Garland makes her appeal ance a* one of Mickey’s three girl friend*. In one climatic scene, she grows up for a night, attends the big dance of the year with Mickey and takes it over with her rendition of three new song*. AJickev Rooney again prove* himself one ol the l must versatile actors on the screen with a jcharacterisation surpassing his best previous effort*. Lewis Stone is *upcrb a* the head of the lamily, handling his role adroitly and with an innate understanding of the problems of family lile. The siorv centres around a second-hand car purchased by Mickey without hi* lather s knowledge. In order to pay for the car he become* entangled iri a series of puppy love affairs that are at once ludicrous and tragic. W ilu tlio aid of Judy, lie extricates hmiselt lroiii a seemingly hopeless dilemma, makes a triumphant appearance at the big dance of die year, and brings forth some of the most spontaneous laughter heard in many As usual with a Mctro-Goldwyn-Maycr programme, die featurettc* that will be shown with th.s leal are, are o£ an outstanding nature. KOSY THEATRE. “PRIVATE NUMBER.” What chance has love between a millionaire's son and a personal maid V 'I hats the romantic question propounded in the Fox hit. “Private Number,’’ opening today at the Rosy Theatre with Robert Taylor and Loretta. Young starred to- . pettier for tho iirst time as a screen lo\ctenin. Filled with youthful love-making, gay romancing, and vivid drama highlighted with hilarious comedy by the irr<v pressible Palsy Kelly, “Private Number is said to bo the year’s outstanding romantic hit. Robert Taylor, only son of the wealthy Winfield family, returns homo from college and mistakes Uoretta Young, his mother's maid, lor a house guest, lie refuses to permit her to explain her situation and this first chance meeting is the keystone of a romance which culminates when tlio family go to Maine for the summer. .Miss Young has accompanied .Mrs Winfield, and the small confines of the summer resort result in ’I aylor anu the girl being thrown together constant, ly. One moonlit night, while riding n. 'i uylor's motor-boat, they decide to get married. Loretta refuses to admit her husband's name hut the marriage is revealed I>v Patsy Kelly. The Winfields arcastounded at this revelation and Rath bom easily persuades them that Miss Young is just a gold digger. Taylor returns from college to find bis wife gone. In desperation, she left the W infield household and had her baby secretly. She feels certain that Taylor will eventually find her. But Rathbonc is not yet finished in his attempt to wreck two lives—he mtcicopts all messages to and from the house and each of the lovers mistakenly feel that the other has ceased to care. The romantic climax of the film comes in a crowded courtroom where J aylor and Miss Young meet again—and the riddle of whether or not their love can continue to exist is answered. „ “WHITE FANG.”

A woman’s love wars against the. TUtbless law of the wild in “W liitc Fang.. •Tack London’s thrilling sequel to his “Call of the Wild,” second attraction at the Kosy Theatre.