AMUSEMENTS

Opotiki News, Volume II, Issue 250, 25 October 1939, Page 4

AMUSEMENTS

“LOVE FINDS HANDY HARDY’’ Tho Judge Hardy Family is loose again. In “Love Finds Andy Hardy” they create'another alternately humor-oiis-ancHlrnmat ie episode from the life of a typical Apiericau family. Opening last night at the Regent Theatre, the picture impressed! the audience with its youthful eharin. its exuberance and scintillating moments of high comedy. The fourth episode in the life of the Hardy Family is by far the most amusing and entertaining to date. Once more it ailords the family, consisting of Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecelia Barker, Fay Hojildn and Betty Boss Clarke with evoVy for capitalising on the homespun drama. of everyday. life. 11l addition, Judy Garland/ makes her appearance as one of Miekoybs three girl friends. Jn one climate 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 songs. Tin.' storv centres around a secondhand car piudiased by .Mickey without his father's knowledge, hi order to pay lor the car he becomes entangled in a. scries of puppy love affairs that aio at once ludicrous and tragic. With the aid el Judy, he extricates himself from a seemingly hopeless dilemma, majte.s a triumphant appearance at the h'g danco the most' spontaneous laughter hoard in many a moon.