AMUSEMENTS

Gisborne Herald, Volume LXVI, Issue 20025, 25 August 1939, Page 3

AMUSEMENTS

REGENT THEATRE

MICKEY ROONEY AND THE HARDY FAMILY IN “OUT V.'OKT WITH THE HARDYS’’

iMick<jy RfJoney gains i'ro,,h lam'd-' as Judgo Hardy's irrepressible sun Andy in the latest of th■ - popular .-erics of comedies. "Out West With (lie Hardys, which commenced what should prove to be a highly ‘successful Gisborne season at the Regent Theatre la b evening. There is not a dull moment in the film from the time -when Andy has his weekly quarrel with his best girl, Polly Benedict (Ann Rutherford) until the Judge (Lewis Stevie), tired and weary, ipacks his little group back to their heme town, Carvel, after a hernia vacation on a 'Western ranch. The Judge has to .face the serious problem of kec'Oing his energetic family under control, (but with. Ids usual wisdom and understanding he manages to settle Andy's troubles, prevent his daughter Marian (Cecilia Parker) from making a hasty marriage, and .solve the perplexing legal difficulties of an old sweetheart. This, the fifth of the Hardy pictures, follows them through another interesting episode of their colourful doings, replete wifli hilarious comcdv. oathas. trial's and inundations'. If adds

to the reputations of the favourite' millions r? pieturogoers have come to knew and admire. Fay Holden, as the mother, Sara Hayden, as Aunt Miljy, Ann Rutherford, as Andy's "steady" girl friend, and Don Castle as Dennis Hunt. (Marian’s fiance in Carvel. It also introduces -a new character in Virginia Weidler. 11-year-old comedienne, who gives one of the best .performances of

the film. She is cast the daughter of the foreman cf the ranch at which the ITai'dvs spend their vacation. As Jake she has the roic of chief heckler of the incorrigible Andy. Ho matter what he may do in the way of Western tricks. Jake always manages to go one better. She proves to 'the disconsolate

"Daredevil Andy, the terror of the plains." as ho calls himself, that she is undoubtedly the better “man" by out-riding, out-roping and out-shooting him. However, it all ends gaily and happily. Like “Love Finds Andy Hardy." its predecessor, and ail the Hardy pictures, it is entertainment for the entire Sunily.

KING’S THEATRE

WIFE, HUSBAND. AND FRIEND.”

A delirious romance that is as gay as Now Year's and as modern as to-morrow will foe served up at the King's Theatre to-day, starring lovely Loretta Young and Warner Baxter as the chief romanticists, in 20th Century-Fox's "Wife, Husoancl and Friend." With Loretta Young as the'beautiful and gay wifq, and Baxter as the husband, debonair and ardent, there is unrestrained fu'.i in this show. Everything would have (been peace and quiet in the family if Miss Young had not decided she could sing and it Baxter had not told her she had a terrible voice. But Loretta decided and 'Warner told, and from that point on there is not a moment’s peace for them. Binnie Barnes and Cesar Romero step into the story as soon as it gets under way and with Binnie on the side of Warner and Cesar stringing along with Loretta, they prove to be no kelp in establishing friendly relations although they contribute tremendously to the fuu. It: all starts when Romero and a few well-meaning friends tell Loretta that she has a" lovely voice and ought to enter upon a career on the concert stage. She believes them, .and poor Warner, much against his better judgment, arranges for her debut. Thanks to his efforts in composing all his friends to purchase tickets, the -debut his successful. But in doing this, he merely encourages the little lady, and she determines that she will sing if it kills her —or him —or both. She sings and it almost does. But. when, Binnie Barnes, a famous opera overhears Warner burlesquing an "aria, she decides that lie has a genuine future in singing and -convinces him that, ft for no other reason than to impress his wife, he ought to try 'it. With Warner singing in one city and Loretta struggling in another, their marriage is just about to go on the rocks when, in a hilarious climax, they are brought together again.

WAIKOHU THEATRE Following numerous requests. Metro-G’old'wyn-’Mayer’s Academy Awardwinning masterpiece, "The Good Earth.” is toeing presented on Saturday at 2 p.m. and 8 pan. and on Monday at 8 p.m., with Paul Muni and Luise ’Rainer in the leading roles. On Wednesday at 2 p.m. and 8 p.m. “Danger Patrol” will toe screened.