They’re Together Again

Manawatu Times, Volume 66, Issue 1, 2 January 1941, Page 2

They’re Together Again

Working through the new inmate’a sweetheart, Rochelle Hudson, Litel manages to win his first friend in the ranks of the prisoners. His victory is short-lived, however, as Ford is unjustly convicted of the murder of the captain of the guards and sentenced to death.

“ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE” (Regent: Coming on Friday week.) Against a glamorous Manhattan background, the Hardy Family has once again woven a tale of hilarious comedy and poignant human drama in “Andy Hardy Meets Debutante,” showing at the Regent Theatre on Friday week. 1 In this latest episode of Metro- \ Goldwyn-Mayer’s saga of a typical American family, the Hardy’s take a trip to New York where Lewis Stone, as Judge Hardy, must fight a dramatic battle against the best legal brains in the metropolis or see the Carvel orphanage, refuge of the little town’s parentless youngsters, be closed for lack of funds. How he manages to win the battle furnishes the best courtroom scene of the year. Meanwhile Mickey Rooney, as Andy, has enmeshed himself in a situation from which he can see no escape. Infatuated with pictures of a New York glamour girl, he has boasted to his sweetheart, Ann Rutherford, and to Carvel chums that he knows the debutante. Taken to New York with the family, he must make good on his boast or never hear the last of it. Comedy highlights growing out of his predicament include his being thrown out of the debutante’s home when ho tries to present a self-written letter of introduction, and a night club scene in which Mickey unwittingly runs up a forty dollar bill on an eiglit-dollar bankroll. Judy Garland, teamed with Mickey Rooney for the third time in their film careers, sings two numbers, “I’m Nobody’s Baby” and “Alone,” a new song which will bo widely whistled. She is a charming sub-deb, who aids Mickey in finally meeting the glamout girl, the latter played by Diana Lewis, newest Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer charmer.

After eighteen years, Olivia de Havilland and - Joan Fontaine wil have a reunion with their lather, a patent attorney who has worked in Tokyo, Japan, for more than twenty years.