THE HARDYS RIDE HIGH (1939)	ANDY HARDY GETS SPRING FEVER (1939)	JUDGE HARDY AND SON (1939)	ANDY HARDY MEETS DEBUTANTE (1940)
"The Hardys Ride High," sixth of the famous series dealing with the popular screen family, opens at the America Theatre Sunday. The new picture is different in every respect from the others, but the beloved Hardys remain the same. Now they inherit $2,000,000 and move to Detroit to claim it. On the plane, their changed status first effect Aunt Milly, played by Sara Haden, and she falls for a business man who is a fellow passenger. In Detroit, overcome by sudden wealth, Mickey Rooney, in his role as Andy Hardy, steps out to a cabaret and falls desperately in love with a chorus girl, virginia Grey. Likewise, swayed by her new position, Marian Hardy (Cecilia Parker) orders lavish gowns and charges them to Judge Hardy. Only the judge (Lewis Stone) and his wife (Fay Holden) maintain their equilibrium. Back in Carvel, Ann Rutherford, as Polly benedict accepts attention from a new young man while she awaits word from Mickey. The family is on edge, figuratively hanging over the precipice of new-found wealth, when the Judge discovers evidence to prove that he is not the legal heir.	Presenting the lucky seventh Hardy Family hit, "Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever" opens Sunday at the America Theatre with the family back home in Carvel. Again Lewis Stone is seen as Judge hardy, Mickey Rooney is Andy and all of the rest of the family are present, Fay Holden, Cecilia Parker, Sara Haden, and Ann Rutherford. Two new members are Terry Kilburn and Helen Gilbert. The story is said to be the most amusing and the most dramatic of all the Hardy pictures. The Judge gets entangled with some crooked promoters who talk him into investing not only his own money but that of his friends also in a phoney aluminum company. Andy Hardy, in the meantime, having quarreled with his girl, Polly Benedict, falls in love with the high school dramatics teacher. Vowing to have his worth recognized, Andy writes the school play and wins the role of the hero. Marian Hardy, who goes to work as a stneographer for the aluminum company, discovers that the two promoters have skipped town with the captial of the firm. Then the Judge realizes how he has been tricked along with his friends. But fortunately he is able to sell the gravel beds, which were supposed to be aluminum fields, to the city for road work and thus return all money invested without loss to anyone. Andy, who has been so serious in his love for the older teacher that he proposes to her, finds out on the night of the play that she is engaged to someone else. At first crushed, the excitement of the play's success and a reconciliation with Polly makes the world seem bright again.	The screen family of Hardys who usually travel somewhere in their adventues, turn stay-at-homes for the eight all-new adventures of the family in "Judge Hardy and Son," latest of the series, coming Sunday to the America Theatre. The entire action of the plot is laid inthe quaint home town of Carvel, a town built at the M-G-M studios especially for the doings of Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, Cecilia Parker, Fay Holden, Sara Haden, Ann Rutherford and the rest of the interesting people of the country hamlet. "Judge Hardy and Son" deals with Mickey's efforts at amateur detection which involves him with three pretty girls, financial trouble, and comical trails and tribulations galore. In a man-to-man talk with his father the Andy Hardy of the screen turns the tables and lectures the Judge to instill new courage when it is feared that the illness of the mother of the family may prove fatal. Mickey also turns hero to ferry his sister, Cecilia Parker, across a raging torrent to reach her mother's bedside. George B. Seitz, who piloted all the Hardy pictures save one, directed. "Judge Hardy and son introduces three new charmers into Andy Hardy's life in June Preisser, Martha O'Driscoll and Margaret Early. A notable addition ot the case is Mme. Marie Ouspenskaya, formerly of the Moscow Art Theatre and a noted New York stage actress and teacher who recently scored in "The Rains Came," and who with Egon Brecher plays in an episode in which the Judge rescues them from a forclosure. Henry Hull, Leona Maricle, George Breakston, Edna Holland and Marie Blake are others in the cast. Joe Yule, Mickey's real father, met Lewis Stone, Mickey's screen father, when he joined the cast to play scenes with his famous son for the first time on screen.	Lewis Stone, Mickey Rooney, and the rest of the Hardy Family, plus golden-voiced Judy Garland, come Sunday to the America theater in the ninth and latest of the popular series, "Andy Hardy Meets Debutante." The story takes them to New York where Andy Hardy, son of the family, is faced with a problem very serious to him but full of laughs for everyone else. Back in Carvel he has become smitten with the pictures of a glamorous New York debutante and when his one-sided romance is discovered by his home-town sweetheart and his chums, he answers their heckling by boasting that he really knows the debutante. Judge hardy is called to New York to defend a law case involving the Carvel Orphanage and he takes the family with him, thus forcing Andy to actually meet the debutante and bring back proof of their friendship. He gets out of his predicament but only after he has turned Manhattan upside down and supplied hilarity galore. Together with Stone and Mickey, the other members of the "family" are their entertaining selves; Fay Holden as the lovable "Ma" Hardy, Sara Haden as school-teaching Aunt Milly and Cecilia Parker as Mickey's charming sister, Marian. Judy Garland appears for the second time in the Hardy series as Betsy Booth, who came to Carvel from New York in a previous film and became one of Andy's staunch admirers. Others in the case are Diana Lewis as the dazzling debutante and Ann Rutherford as Mickey's Carvel sweetheart.
THE COURTSHIP OF ANDY HARDY (1942)
Andy Hardy finds a new romance and successfully gets out of it to become a free man again in "The Courtship Of Andy Hardy," latest picture in the popular family series, which opened yesterday at the American Theatre. Not only does Andy meet a new girl, but he also rescues his sister from a dramatic "scrape," gets into trouble with the police, and barely escapes the clutches of Polly Benedict, who returns to further complicate his young life. The picture introduces an attractive newcomer to the series in Donna Reed. Playing her fourth film role, she is a personality certain to climb to stellar heights in Hollywood. The story centers around Andy's efforts to show Miss Reed, as Melodie Nesbit, a good time, on request of his father. Judge hardy has taken pity on the girl, after trying the case of her separated parents in his court. Realizing that she has led a hopelessly sheltered life, with no opportunity for fun, the Judge calls on Andy for help. When Andy takes her to her first dance, she proves to be the "walflower" he had anticipated, but he bears up boldly under it. Experiencing a severe crush on him and realizing her own shortcomings, she learns how to make herself attractive before asking Andy to the next dance, and then becomes the sensation of the evening. Lewis Stone again gives a masterful performance as the wise, small-town judge, with Fay Holden at her best as "Ma" Hardy. Cecilia Parker, as Andy's sister, has her finest role inthe series, while Ann Rutherford and Sara Haden add their charm to the family picture.

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