The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 3, Issue 280, 7 March 1941, Page 8

The Theatres

regent Screening again to-night "The Doctor Takes a Wife" and "London Can Take It." Commencing Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, "Andy Hardy Meets a Debutante," Mickey Rooney, Judy Garland and the Hardy Family:. Judy Garland sings "I'm Nobody's Baby" and "Buds Won't Bud" by the composer of "Over the Rainbow"—in the third anniversary hit of the happy Hardy Family! A happiness picture to dispel any thoughts of care or worry. That has been evidenced in the universal favourable comment which has been passed on the film at overseas previews. Mickey Rooney as "Andy" is teamed again with Judy Garland (remember that performance in "Babes in Arms"?) and the usual support of Lewis Stone, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Ann Rutherford and George Breakston, all now well established 'in their characterisations. Additional support is given by Diana LeAvis, Addison Richards and others. The story is laid this time in New York where "Andy" sets out to prove to his friends that the leading debutante falls just as easily for his charms as the girls 'way back home.

GRAND Screening Saturday, Monday and Tuesday, 'Pack Up Your Troubles" The Ritz Bros., Jane Withers, Lynn Bari, Stanley Fields. Prepare for indescriminate latigli bombing! Tlie rip-roaring comedy hit that will have the whole town laughing! With joyous Jane Withers, the bravest-lit-tle Ma'amselle in all France, and those roisterous Ritz Brothers in the army, you're promised a whole kit bag and kiboodle of fun—and thrills too. "King of the Turf" Adolphe Menjou, Dolores Ccstello, Roger Daniel, Walter Abel, Allan Dinehart, Harold. Huber. Against the rousing background of the most thrilling racing story ever told is the gripping drama of the finost thing a father ever did for his son!