The Theatres

Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 2, Issue 120, 7 February 1940, Page 5

The Theatres

REGENT Hailed as "1940's greatest screen adventure," Columbia's new production "Only Angels Have Wings" screens to-day and to-morrow at the Regent Theatre. Gary 'Grant and Jean Arthur, appearing together for the first time, are starred in the new film, compounded by tropical romance and thrilling adventure in South America. Neither time nor expense was spared in the filming; and some of the most elaborate sets ever conceived and built in Hollywood were used for all except the /lying sequences. "Only Angels have Wings" concerns a commercial aviation field operated in a little South American banana port by Carj Grant. His pilots are a desperate crew of devil-may-care adventurers' willing to fly any old craft with wings into any sort of weather. Jean Arthur, a showgirl whose troupe has broken up farther south, arrives on the weekly banada freight er en i-oute to Panama. She falls in love with Grant and decides to stay. GRAND An excellent double bill is the fare at the Grand on Wednesday,, Thursday and Friday. Firstly we have Jack Holt as an intrepid officer in the Air Corps who, together with an inventor, completes a revolt* tionary electric bombing 'plane. The efforts on the part of foreign agents to obtain plans of the machine and a subsequent murder is the basis of the film. Secondly we have 1 Gene Autry in another of his everpopular musical westerns "The Big Show." The locale Of the picture is a Texan Rodeo, to which Autry and his band of hard-riding, quock-shoot ing cowboys go to compete in the, Western events.